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Beer Travel: Gold Coast Part II
September 9, 2016, by James Graham
The Gold Coast may not have the diverse multicultural reputation of Melbourne or Sydney, but behind this veneer of misconception is a small, vibrant and evolving city with a glorious sub-tropical climate, a relaxed way of life and 57 kilometres of sandy beaches. Indeed, there's a strong argument to be made that no other city truly represents the green and gold of the Australian flag quite like the Gold Coast.
If you were looking for a microcosm of the city's transformation, you need go no further than its craft beer movement. Sure, it's been slower than some of Australia's other cities, but the notion that Queenslanders of today are unwavering loyalists to flavourless lager is simply untrue. There's a wave of educated, flavour-seeking palates that are encouraging investment in craft breweries, venues that are stocking local craft beer and restaurants willing to host beer degustations.
A number of breweries now call the Gold Coast home, enough indeed for the launch earlier this year of the region's own tour company. Hop On Brewery Tours is run by Matt and Jocelyn, a fun and friendly Aussie-American double team, who spend their days keeping guests entertained, enlightened and full of beer. They offer half day and full day tours, including options that take in the Gold Coast, Mount Tamborine and as far as Brisbane.
Taken together, it's easy to see why The Crafty Pint's guide to the Gold Coast needed to run over two days. Here, part two covers the southern region from Burleigh Heads to Currumbin. If you missed part one, you can find it here.
Black Hops Brewing – Gardenia Grove, Burleigh Heads
Described as the least covert operation in brewing, Black Hops opened its brewery and taproom in Burleigh in May 2016 but were already well known. In fact, it's fair to say there can have been few brewing companies that had given the media as much to write about after producing so little beer as these guys – a legacy, in part, of co-founder Dan Norris' marketing background.
He launched Black Hops with fellow Gold Coast locals Eddie Oldfield and Michael McGovern and the trio has documented every step of its journey – one that's taken in an Eggnog Stout and making a beer for Call of Duty – across a variety of mediums: from podcasts and blogs to even writing a book on how to open a brewery. With a core range of eight beers all ready and lined up plus various one-off brews joining them at their small and bustling cellar door bar, a trip to Black Hops is a must. For this Crafty Pint man, that usually means every Friday! Crafty Cabal Member offer at Black Hops Brewing: Free Tasting Paddle At Black Hops
Burleigh Brewing – Ern Harley Drive, Burleigh Heads
Burleigh Brewing has been an Australian beacon of world class beer for the last decade, with most of its core beers and seasonals winning local and international acclaim and awards on a regular basis. Their Hef wheat beer even took out a gold medal at the World Beer Cup, arguably the most prestigious beer awards competition on the planet.
It's a joint venture between Gold Coast businesswomen Peta Fielding and brewmaster husband Brennan Fielding, who started his career in Hawaii before they alighted in Burleigh Heads. Burleigh Brewing pioneered the craft beer movement on the Gold Coast and, in 2016, moved into bigger premises, complete with a truly impressive Tap House featuring mini-surfboard tap handles.
Ze Pickle – Connor Street, Burleigh Heads
Ze Pickle is a locally owned craft beer bar that serves up a laid back atmosphere, epic burgers – including the cleverly named "Doughnutfukwitdis" burger, which features a Wagyu beef patty, Nutella-smoked bacon and Double Jack cheese sandwiched between a grilled, glazed donut – and 12 taps of craft beer that are regularly rotated.
Regular offerings include locals Balter, Noisy Minor and Black Hops as well as interstate brews from the likes of 4 Pines, Two Birds, Ekim, Young Henrys and internationals such as Sixpoint, Evil Twin, 8 Wired and Deschutes. Often packed out with a lively crowd of locals, Ze Pickle has made its unique blend of unpretentious and excessive a success and now there are Ze Pickle bars to be found in Surry Hills in Sydney and Fortitude Valley in Brisbane.
Lester & Earl – Gold Coast Highway, Palm Beach
Tucked away behind an inconspicuous door situated between a home décor studio and a bike shop, Lester & Earl will transport you away to the Deep South of America. With a delicious menu of slow-cooked and smoked American-style BBQ and 12 taps of craft beer, Lester & Earl specialises in rustic sophistication and is the perfect spot to take in views of Palm Beach.
The bar also regularly stocks pilot batches and limited release beers, with recent appearances from the likes of Feral's hop beast WarHog, The Reuben by Colonial Brewing, Africola by Young Henrys and Stone & Wood's Saison de Chene – all appearing on tap as a result of owner operator John Dunlea's passion for great beer. Pull up a spot on the wraparound veranda and it's easy to lose track of the afternoon as you sink a few crafty ones trying catch sight of migrating whales using the thoughtfully supplied binoculars.
Balter Brewing, Traders Way, Currumbin
Balter Brewing opened with huge fanfare. For craft beer lovers, it may well have been because the talented, trophy-winning Scotty Hargrave was head brewer. For everyone else, it was because four of the founders are the globally renowned pro surfers Mick Fanning, Joel Parkinson, Bede Durbrudge and Josh Kerr. After taking over a warehouse in an industrial estate in Currumbin, Balter has built one of the most impressive, no expense spared brewery and cellar door experiences you'll find in Australia.
At time of writing, they produced just two core beers, the XPA and Alt Brown, (mainly because demand has been so high there's little time to brew much else) although when time does allow Scotty has turned his hand to creating a host of excellent one-off cellar door only brews to entice punters back for more. With the boost that comes with having a quartet of internationally recognised owners, Balter has grown fast, expanding its offerings beyond the Gold Coast to develop a solid reputation across Australia with the beers available in both Sydney and Melbourne. Crafty Cabal Member offer at Balter Brewing (CUB/Asahi): First Schooner Free at Balter Brewers
Tugun Cellars, Golden Four Drive, Currumbin
In part one of this guide, The Crafty Pint's man on the ground, declared that the Gold Coast's choice of crafty bottleshops was abysmal. It still is, but it turns out that Wine + Beer does have a rival for the attention of the coast's craft beer loving residents. Located just off the Gold Coast highway in the sleepy beachside suburb of Tugun on the border with New South Wales is Tugun Beach Cellars, which is owned by Kirra Beach Hotel.
Manager Sam Lane has been given permission to indulge his passion for local beer by dedicating a substantial amount of shelf space to the region's breweries. This includes Stone & Wood, Burleigh Brewing, Balter, Fortitude, Noisy Minor, and Beard & Brau, all of which sit alongside a good number of interstate options too. If, however, you can't find a particular beer, then staff are more than happy to take orders.
Justin Lane Establishment, Gold Coast Highway, Burleigh Heads
Eddie's Grub House, Griffith Street, Coolangatta
If you're doing good things with good beer in and around the Gold Coast region, drop James a line.
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Aussie Beer Blogs: offthetap
He loves beer, he loves travel, and he loves to hunt down new beers when he travels. So Matt Johnson decided to start capturing his passions via another one: photography, creating offthetap and attracting Instagram followers in the thousands. read on
Beer Travel: Another Belgium
Belgian beer culture is deservedly held in the highest regard by beer lovers the world over. Many of its classic breweries are household names, but what of the younger, newer wave? Bert Spinks goes searching for another Belgium. read on
Beer Travel: North Carolina
For most Aussies visiting the US the West Coast takes priority. But, as part of his mission to explore global beer cultures, Molly Rose founder Nic Sandery chose to spend time in North Carolina. In his second article for us, here's what he discovered there. read on

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Little things add up quick. Don't Discount the Small Victories, and Keep Tabs on the Little Losses.
Happy Sunday! I decided to do a roundup of some money wins and fails! I like this whole idea because it keeps me honest. It also gives a lot of insight into my personality. After all, what you spend money on is what's important to you!
Chicken thighs were on sale for $0.79 a pound. I bought two packs! I like to buy bone in because I can make bone broth.
I made shrimp stock in my Instant Pot. I use the tails/shells from raw shrimp and save until I have a gallon bag full. The depth of flavor this adds to seafood dishes is unreal. And it would go straight in the trash otherwise!
I renewed my library books before any fees were due. Phew.
Massive Watermelons were not on sale for $3.99 AND BOGO for 4th of July. So I got two massive seedless watermelons for $2 each!
We got an overdraft fee! Oh my gosh do I hate admitting that to the internet, but hubby and I didn't coordinate one day. We keep a zero based budget (normally with a buffer!) but it actually went to zero. Oops! Side note, always make sure to contact your bank/credit union if this is rare. Hopefully they will reverse it!
I went to Costco and overspent. What should've been $60 was $110. Oops. Though all items wre consumables and not wasteful purchases. Merely unplanned ones.
We had to throw out some old chicken (and I HATE food waste so much guys). Normally I am great about repurposing our food, but one can only eat so much chicken. And although my husband cooked it up, it isn't really his fault. We were supposed to go to a friend's house and they canceled last minute. So then we had a lot of extra chicken.
Let me know your biggest money win (or fail, no judgement here!) And if you liked this, check out this week's Fitness Wins and Fails!
The Only REALLY Good Values in The Nordstrom Anniversary Sale. Budget Friendly!
Thank you for your post! My money wins this week…there was extra money in my budget and put in my savings account. My car insurance went down by $10. had a garage sale and got rid of some items. Some items I placed online with Ebay and the other went to Salvation Army. I am in the middle of having to relocate due to a job transfer so my debt snowball is on hold at the moment. I got to spend time with my girlfriend and her kids plus I got to help her with the Whole30 diet she is trying. Just sent your blog link to her for more recipes.
My money fails, eating out too much which is affecting my food budget and stressing out about this move cross country.
I'm glad you liked it! I think I'm going to keep doing these because they really do keep me honest. Those are some great wins. Ahhh cleaning out is the best because you get money AND mental relief from those uneeded items going to a new home. Moving is certainly a great reason to pause, good luck! It can be a stressful time, but it'll be so great once you're there! And awesome I appreciate the share.


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Q: Normal subgroups of the semidihedral group of order 16? What are the normal subgroups of the semidihedral group of order 16? For such a fundamental result, there doesn't seem to be a reference to this online...
The semidihedral group of order 16 is given by $\langle \sigma, \tau\rangle$, where $\sigma^8 = \tau^2 = e$ and $\sigma\tau = \tau\sigma^3$.

A: There are 6 normal subgroups, namely, the trivial subgroup, $\langle\sigma^4\rangle$, $\langle\sigma^4, \tau\rangle$, $\langle\sigma^2\rangle$, $\langle\sigma^2, \tau\rangle$, and $\langle\sigma\rangle$.

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Having Emily with us was like having an angel in the house: a fallen one! Her antics kept Sharon and I on our toes and disrupted the trouble free relationship that Pippa and Kaiti had fallen into, which basically consisted of them ignoring one another. Emily however, could not be ignored and insisted on muscling in on everything that went on in the house.
I have since speculated that perhaps it was the proximity of this loveable 'little devil' that caused the idea of angels to once more resurface in my consciousness.
Ironically, my apparent encounter on the road from Flagstaff had actually marked a cessation of interest. I read no more books and thought no more about them. I 'dined out' on the story many times, always ending with the cliff-hanger line "So what do you think the Blazer driver was then?" and offering no explanation of my own. These were the only occasions on which angels filtered into my thoughts and I became more interested in First Nations culture and history.
Seemingly by chance I met up with an ex colleague. We agreed to have lunch and after the usual mundane discussions of who'd done what, she revealed to me that she had experienced a telephone session of something called 'channelling' with a lady in America. Apparently this woman was some kind of go between who was able to transmit messages from the angelic realms into our own. My friend had talked with her for an hour and received guidance that she found inspiring and nurturing. The channel had spoken in another voice and seemed to assume wisdom beyond that which she could have known as a human being. Despite my copious reading, I had no recollection of ever hearing of this before. I knew quite well what a medium was (and I'd even been to see the world famous medium and author Doris Stokes on stage twenty years previously) but I hadn't realised you could actually talk to angels.
That night as I relayed the tale to Sharon, I was careful to inject the right amount of semi-mocking tone into my voice; I didn't want her to think I actually believed in the reality of my colleague's experience. In her Catholic charismatic days at University I knew that she had been involved with people who had 'spoken in tongues', which I imagined might be something similar; but I was still conscious of the fact that she might decry this as some kind of heresy. Quite contrary to my expectations she seemed to find the whole story riveting and asked many questions. What then followed was a verbal dance around one another, each trying to discover precisely how credible the other found the idea of channelling and how interested the other was in actually experiencing it. It didn't take too long to become clear that both of us found it fascinating and both of us would like to have a session with the woman my friend had been in touch with. Perhaps this could be as exciting as some of those 'fairy stories' I'd read a few years back!
The very next day we got on the internet and arranged a convenient time for a session with the lady and paid in advance for a one hour channelling. In the email exchanges that followed we were told that we could pretty much ask anything that we liked with the exception of questions that involved predictions for our future. It was also recommended that we plan our questions in advance since the experience might have the potential to leave us tongue-tied.
About two weeks later at the appointed hour we put in our transatlantic call and a friendly voice welcomed us and explained what would happen. Then after a few moments pause, her voice changed slightly and we were speaking to an angel. Over the course of the next sixty minutes we asked questions on a wide variety of subjects that affected our lives. The experience was revealing, supportive and helpful. It was all very matter of fact and when it was over, we simply thanked the lady who had now returned to being herself and hung up.
The conversations about that call went on for months. In hindsight I find it odd that we questioned not one single aspect of the veracity of the messages we were given. We had no doubt at all that the experience was genuine. But apart from the friend who had led us to this lady in the first place, we told nobody about our session.
Then, seemingly by chance once again, I met up with an ex boss. I had not seen him for twenty five years and we arranged to meet for lunch. I had always admired this individual as he was a very down to earth sort of person, in actual fact an accountant, so perhaps that was to be expected! We had lot of catching up to do and the conversation flowed easily. Then after about an hour and with no warning that something strange was coming, he told me that he and his wife were deeply into 'new age' matters. They were both involved with a particular new age teacher whose name I recognised due to owning a copy of one of his books. The author was big into angels. I was initially a little incredulous that my friend, who in many ways was so 'ordinary', could now be relating these extraordinary things to me. I hid my surprise well, privately thinking him quite brave to allow me to be privy to such personal information. If I held these kinds of beliefs, I certainly wouldn't be so forthcoming in admitting it! So as to make him feel that I was empathetic to what he was sharing I began to reveal some of my own experiences that could be described as broadly spiritual in nature. We swapped a few stories and then I told him about the channelling we had paid for, believing that the strangeness of it all would level the playing field between us. But in my friend's eyes it seemed a totally normal thing to have done. He regularly attended channelling sessions with an Archangel called Michael.
A few bells started to ring at this time because the lady we'd had the session with also channeled a 'Michael', although she hadn't said that it was Archangel Michael. I was interested by some of the synchronicity between our lives, particularly the element of searching for spiritual meaning. After a pleasant few hours we parted and whilst walking to the Underground in London, I rang Sharon to relay my experience. However, she was too caught up in her own discoveries: while I had been away, and at almost precisely the time that I had been discussing these matters with my friend, she had been mulling over our channelling and had found herself on the internet. Once there she discovered the website of a lady called Ronna Herman who channeled an Archangel called Michael! Sharon was very excited as messages intended for all were displayed on the website and she couldn't wait for me to get home to see them.
Curiously, when I got home a few hours later, I was totally unengaged by the site. I didn't want to read the messages and I didn't feel drawn to it in any way. Sharon was disappointed and tried to persuade me to get into it, but I would have none of it. It was a few days later I noticed that the site was saved on my internet favourites list so I highlighted the name so as to delete it. By accident the site was called up again and just as I was about to close it, I happened to notice a tab which indicated that Ronna ran seminars. I guess it was the professional presenter in me that wanted to know more, but whatever the reason, I went to have a look. I had the impression that the content was vague, intangible and certainly incomprehensible to me. So I was more than a little surprised at myself that within half an hour, I had signed up to go to a two day event in Rotterdam. It was a mere three weeks away. I didn't know why I was going; I didn't know what I would discover; I didn't even really want to go.
Nevertheless, go I did. On the day it began I found myself the only Brit in a room with over two hundred other Europeans, feeling like a fish out of water. A lot of them seemed to know each other and the material presented by Ronna seemed second nature to them. To me it was somewhat esoteric and rather mysterious but I found that I understood most of it. I took some notes and found the concepts fascinating. The fact that it was in English was a big plus, but I didn't interact with my fellow attendees. They were without doubt a very pleasant and accepting group, tolerant of a fellow European who only spoke one language when they all spoke at least two or three. But by my down to earth standards some seemed to be a little off the wall. Worse still, some were prone to toe curlingly embarrassing moments of emotional expression which, to a stiff upper lipped Brit, were just too much.
On the last day our host announced that we would be doing something called an 'activation meditation'. Apparently this would involve some kind of guided meditation that would enable us to channel angels for ourselves. I was more than a little incredulous that this was possible; but since I was there and I'd paid for it, I'd try anything once! When we began I felt a little self-conscious at being told to close our eyes. I peeped at those around me and they all seemed to be taking it perfectly seriously so I toed the line and followed suit. The experience of being guided by the visual imagery that her words suggested was certainly an enjoyable one. It went on for maybe twenty minutes and it was very peaceful and relaxing. Ultimately though, I was left with a feeling of disappointment: when we were 'brought back' from the meditation, nothing had changed and the activation, for me at least, had failed.
The weekend ended with Ronna giving a lengthy message channeled from Archangel Michael. It was very impressive, very interesting and certainly a highlight of the weekend. I would have plenty to tell Sharon about when I got home.


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Reception 'blackout' led to early radio entrepreneurs shaping the desert community
Tracy Conrad
"For years the people of Palm Springs were confronted with serious radio reception difficulties, due to the 'blackout' action of stately Mt. San Jacinto which lies directly west of the village. Only under ideal conditions could villagers listen to their favorite network programs emanating from the Los Angeles stations. This condition was completely altered last spring, however, when RadiOasis, Station KCMJ, began operation."
So began an advertisement in the newly minted Villager Magazine in 1947 for a new radio station in the Coachella Valley. The station, an affiliate of the Columbia Broadcasting System, was installed especially for the Palm Springs and Coachella Valley area, and provided a complete CBS program schedule seventeen hours each day "loud and clear." Today the emphasis might be more properly placed on the "seventeen hours each day." Silence, quite literally radio silence, was had for the remainder of the day. Well, more likely the night.
In addition to the national programs, RadiOasis featured special broadcasts of purely local nature, sponsored in most cases by Palm Springs merchants. One of the most popular daily presentations was a full hour of request transcriptions called "Music for the Party," in which the listeners requested their favorite musical recordings by telephone and then hoped their selection would be played on air (these were the days before Spotify, Pandora and Sirius, and the idea of being able to request a song was a novelty).
Dick Joy and Don McBain, the owners of the station, were two veteran radio men, both having had extensive experience with major radio networks. McBain came to the conclusion that radio announcing was a bit dull, and having a keen interest in aviation, became a pilot. Along with owning the station and guiding its operation, he held down a full-time position as a flight captain at United Air Lines. Dick Joy, the co-owner of RadiOasis was a well-known, full-time announcer on many of the popular network programs, including "Sam Spade, Detective," "Vox Pop" and "The Telephone Hour" and appeared on "Big Town" and the "Danny Kaye Show." Serialized radio shows then being the Netflix of their time.
The advertisement touted the staff as an "unusually well-qualified group of announcers and technicians, which can easily be noticed when watching the flawless precision that takes place at all times during the seventeen hours of broadcasting each day."
RadiOasis was a welcome addition to the resort's many famous entertainment facilities and was integral to the desert way of life. It greatly improved the listening enjoyment of residents by being local and broadcasting on the air for so many hours.
Prior to RadiOasis, The Desert Sun ran an article in 1937 with the headline, "Radio Stations That Can Be Heard Here" to help listeners searching for signal. Listeners were advised to tune into far away stations, for example Salt Lake City's station KSL, which could be heard more consistently than those emanating from Los Angeles, especially at night.
For the "convenience of radio listeners in Palm Springs and vicinity, the Simpson Radio and Frigidaire Shop, exclusive local representative for Philco, R.C.A., and Zenith radio receivers, is publishing a list of radio stations which can be received in Palm Springs under normal conditions with a good receiver and a good aerial."
The list detailed stations from Los Angeles, Spokane, San Diego, San Francisco, Cincinnati, Oakland, Dallas, Tia Juana (sic), Denver, Hollywood, Albuquerque, San Antonio, and Salt Lake City with specifics about the time of day, and if they would hear the NBC or Columbia network. And any customer was welcome to drop by the Simpson Radio and Frigidaire Shop to pick up a list.
RadiOasis wasn't the only station available in the desert. There were other outlets and efforts, especially in the 1940s and 50s. The Desert Sun would even start KDES following the success of earlier stations. KDES pioneered the mobile transmission, outfitting minibuses able to rush to the scene of news, or broadcast remotely for fun.
But a little article, on a seemingly random subject appeared in The Desert Sun in 1939, and presaged some of the biggest things to come for radio in the desert.
The article announced that Jack Schurch, Palm Springs artist, known for his murals and other drawings of rural life in Mexico "received confirmation by mail this week that this summer he is to paint murals and do other decorative work in the broadcasting rooms and offices of station WJR, Detroit, Michigan. WJR, which is in the Fisher Building in Detroit, is owned by G.A. Richards, who winters here at Smoke Tree. Mr. Richards engaged artist Schurch for the extensive redecorating work of his radio station after he had seen the artist's work in the Algiers cocktail lounge, the Chi-Chi Bar and in other local establishments."
The presence of G.A. Richards in the desert was auspicious. His daughter Rozene, accompanying her father, would land on the desert in 1940 and attend Palm Springs High School auguring great things for the community. Richards was a major force in radio, owned Detroit's professional football team, the Lions, and circulated in the highest echelons of business. Rozene learned the business being around her father's radio stations. Decades later, she would return to Smoke Tree and take up the radio business in a big way while simultaneously becoming one of the desert's most active philanthropists.
But that's a story for another broadcast.


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Contemplating the high price of ethical fashion – Lifestyle
While the idea of ethical fashion is becoming increasingly popular, it has been reported globally that few are willing to pay the price.
A survey conducted for Asia's Sustainable Fashion Summit 2019, found that 60 percent of participants would only buy ethical fashion if it had the same price as fast fashion. Therefore, the real question is: will ethical fashion ever be sold at a price that doesn't break the bank?
Christine Lafian founded her ethical brand, SUKU Home, with the idea that craftspeople needed to be treated fairly and given time to create their pieces. Having grown up in Bali, she established her studio in her home community to enable locals to craft sustainable fashion and household wares.
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One of the biggest challenges for Christine is having to compete with companies that rely on mass-production and the use of cheaper fabrics. As sustainable fabrics such as bamboo and linen are derived from plants, they often cost more to produce than the typical synthetic fabrics of fast fashion.
Although the designer thinks ethical fashion can work to become more affordable, she wants people to know over-consumption would result in excess and that was where the real problem lay. "We're so used to the mentality that you can consume without thinking about the future. If everyone changed their mindset, it would change all industries, not just fashion."
SukkhaCitta chief operational officer Bertram Flesch also believes mass consumption is a core problem for the fashion industry.
"[Fast fashion] seems so affordable, so you just keep buying things, and a lot of your wardrobe you don't even wear," Bertram said.
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According to a study conducted by YouGov, 3 in 10 Indonesians have thrown away clothes after wearing them only once.
Founded by Bertram's wife, Denica in 2016, SukkhaCitta dedicated itself to making garments in a sustainable, environmentally conscious manner while ensuring their workers made a living wage. The company is also a social enterprise, with a portion of the profit made from each garment being used to build sewing schools in the villages in which the company operates.
Bertram says SukkhaCitta, like many other ethical brands, makes garments that cost more as they are created to show customers that what they are buying rivals the underpriced and decaying quality of fast fashion. "If you buy something from a fast fashion company and the cost per wear is US$5, you wear it twice and it costs you $10, but then you buy a shirt for $100 and you wear it 20 times, it ends up being the same."
Bertram also stressed the importance that the price tag should reflect environmental costs, health hazards and exploitation – or lack thereof. "The fact remains that fast fashion in its current, tremendously unsustainable form is too cheap as its prices do not reflect the true cost."
One factor emphasized by both Christine and Bertram is that the attitudes of consumers must change in order for ethical fashion to ever be made at a more affordable price.
However, for a large portion of Indonesians, spending big on ethical fashion isn't always viable. According to CEIC Data, in 2019 the average monthly income for Indonesians was $183. With some brands charging $250 per garment, ethical buying can be prohibitively expensive.
As a consumer and producer of ethical fashion, Fransiska Anggraini understands that price sensitivity can be problematic for some, but suggests there are ways to work around it.
"Nowadays, wearing pre-loved items is no longer a shame. There are online fashion shops specializing in selling second-hand stuff, and they're doing really well," she said.
Fransiska also suggested giving away unloved clothing, attending garage sales and participating in local clothes-swapping events, which enforce the idea that as long as we're not buying fast-fashion, hopefully it will move out of the mainstream, putting ethical fashion in the spotlight. Through this hoped-for transition, Bertram believes companies will become more innovative in their means of production, leading to lower prices in the long term. (kes)
The writer is an intern at The Jakarta Post
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<?php

namespace Components\Forum\Api\Controllers;

use Hubzero\Component\ApiController;
use Components\Forum\Models\UsersCategory;
use Request;
use User;

require_once dirname(dirname(__DIR__)) . '/models/usersCategory.php';

class UsersCategoriesv2_0 extends ApiController
{
	/**
	 * Create user's categories
	 *
	 * @apiMethod POST
	 * @apiUri    /api/v2.0/forum/userscategories/create
	 * @apiParameter {
	 * 		"name":          "category_id",
	 * 		"description":   "Forum category's ID",
	 * 		"type":          "integer",
	 * 		"required":      true
	 * }
	 * @apiParameter {
	 * 		"name":          "user_id",
	 * 		"description":   "User's ID",
	 * 		"type":          "integer",
	 * 		"required":      true
	 * }
	 * @return    TODO
	 */
	public function createTask()
	{
		$userId = Request::getInt('userId');
		$currentUserId = User::get('id');

		$this->_requiresMatchingUser($currentUserId, $userId);

		$categoriesIds = Request::getArray('categoriesIds');

		$usersCategories = $this->_instantiateUsersCategories($categoriesIds, $currentUserId);

		$errors = $this->_saveUsersCategories($usersCategories);

		$arrayCategories = array_map(function($usersCategory) {
			return $usersCategory->toArray();
		}, $usersCategories);

		$result = array(
			'records' => $arrayCategories,
			'errors' => $errors
		);

		$result['status'] = empty($errors) ? 'success' : 'error';

		$this->send($result);
	}

	/**
	 * Instantiate user's categories
	 *
	 * @param   array    $categoriesIds
	 * @param   integer  $currentUserId
	 * @return  array
	 */
	protected function _instantiateUsersCategories($categoriesIds, $currentUserId)
	{
		$usersCategories = array_map(function($categoryId) use ($currentUserId) {
			$usersCategory = UsersCategory::blank();
			$usersCategory->set(array(
				'category_id' => $categoryId,
				'user_id' => $currentUserId
			));
			return $usersCategory;
		}, $categoriesIds);

		return $usersCategories;
	}

	/**
	 * Save user's categories
	 *
	 * @param   array  $usersCategories
	 * @return  array
	 */
	protected function _saveUsersCategories($usersCategories)
	{
		$errors = array();

		foreach ($usersCategories as $usersCategory)
		{
			if (!$usersCategory->save())
			{
				$instanceErrors = $usersCategory->getErrors();
				array_push($errors, $instanceErrors);
			}
		}

		return $errors;
	}

	/**
	 * Destroys user's categories
	 *
	 * @apiMethod DELETE
	 * @apiUri    /api/v2.0/forum/userscategories/destroy
	 * @apiParameter {
	 * 		"name":          "category_id",
	 * 		"description":   "Forum category's ID",
	 * 		"type":          "integer",
	 * 		"required":      true
	 * }
	 * @apiParameter {
	 * 		"name":          "user_id",
	 * 		"description":   "User's ID",
	 * 		"type":          "integer",
	 * 		"required":      true
	 * }
	 * @return    TODO
	 */
	public function destroyTask()
	{
		$userId = Request::getInt('userId');
		$currentUserId = User::get('id');

		$this->_requiresMatchingUser($currentUserId, $userId);

		$categoriesIds = Request::getArray('categoriesIds');

		$usersCategories = UsersCategory::all()
			->whereEquals('user_id', $userId)
			->whereIn('category_id', $categoriesIds);

		$errors = $this->_destroyUsersCategories($usersCategories);

		$arrayCategories = $usersCategories->rows()->toArray();

		$result = array(
			'records' => $arrayCategories,
			'errors' => $errors
		);

		$result['status'] = empty($errors) ? 'success' : 'error';

		$this->send($result);
	}

	/**
	 * Destroy user's categories
	 *
	 * @param   array  $usersCategories
	 * @return  array
	 */
	protected function _destroyUsersCategories($usersCategories)
	{
		$errors = array();

		foreach ($usersCategories as $usersCategory)
		{
			if (!$usersCategory->destroy())
			{
				$instanceErrors = $usersCategory->getErrors();
				array_push($errors, $instanceErrors);
			}
		}

		return $errors;
	}

	/**
	 * Check user's id
	 *
	 * @param   integer  $currentUserId
	 * @param   integer  $userId
	 * @return  void
	 */
	protected function _requiresMatchingUser($currentUserId, $userId)
	{
		if ($currentUserId !== $userId)
		{
			$error = array(
				'status' => 'error',
				'error' => 'User ID mismatch, unable to proceed.'
			);

			$this->send($result);
		}
	}
}

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George Henry Jackson (March 12, 1945 – April 14, 2013) was an American blues, rhythm & blues, rock and soul songwriter and singer.  His prominence was as a prolific and skilled songwriter; he wrote or co-wrote many hit songs for other musicians, including "Down Home Blues," "One Bad Apple", "Old Time Rock and Roll" and "The Only Way Is Up".  As a southern soul singer he recorded fifteen singles between 1963 and 1985, with some success.

Biography
Jackson was born in Indianola, Mississippi, and moved with his family to Greenville at the age of five. He started writing songs while in his teens, and in 1963 introduced himself to Ike Turner. Turner took him to Cosimo Matassa's studios in New Orleans to record "Nobody Wants to Cha Cha With Me" for his Prann label, but it was not successful. Jackson then traveled to Memphis to promote his songs, but was rejected by Stax before helping to form vocal group The Ovations with Louis Williams at Goldwax Records.  Jackson wrote and sang on their 1965 hit "It's Wonderful To Be in Love", which reached no.61 on the Billboard Hot 100 and no.22 on the R&B chart. He also wrote for other artists at Goldwax, including Spencer Wiggins and James Carr, and recorded with Dan Greer as the duo George and Greer. After the Ovations split up in 1968, he recorded briefly for Hi Records, and also for Decca using the pseudonym Bart Jackson. As a singer, he had a versatile tenor that was influenced by Sam Cooke, and released many records over the years, for a host of different labels, but his recordings never made him a star.

At the suggestion of record producer Billy Sherrill, Jackson moved to Rick Hall's FAME Studios at Muscle Shoals in the late 1960s, Alabama, where he wrote for leading singers including Clarence Carter – whose "Too Weak To Fight" reached no.13 on the pop chart and no.3 on the R&B chart in 1968 – Wilson Pickett, and Candi Staton.  Some of Jackson's songs for Staton, including her first hit in 1969, "I'd Rather Be An Old Man's Sweetheart (Than A Young Man's Fool)", are "widely regarded as examples of some of the finest southern soul ever recorded by a female artist, with lyrics that were full of meaning and innuendo, a hallmark of Jackson's best work." Jackson also recorded for Fame Records, and had his first chart success as a singer in 1970 with "That's How Much You Mean To Me", which reached no. 48 on the R&B chart. The Osmonds visited the FAME studio in 1970, and heard and liked Jackson's song "One Bad Apple", which he had originally written with The Jackson 5 in mind. The Osmonds recorded the song, and it became the group's first hit, rising to the top of the Hot 100 in February 1971; it also reached no.6 on the R&B chart.

In 1972 he briefly rejoined the Hi label, and had his second and last solo recording success with "Aretha, Sing One For Me", an answer song to Aretha Franklin's "Don't Play That Song"; Jackson's song reached no.38 on the R&B chart. He then released several singles for MGM Records, while continuing to write for other artists. In the early 1970s he began working as a songwriter for the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and, with Thomas Jones III, wrote "Old Time Rock and Roll" which Bob Seger recorded in 1978; Seger's version reached no.28 on the pop chart. While with Muscle Shoals Sound, he also wrote "Down Home Blues", recorded by Z.Z. Hill, which became a theme tune for Malaco Records in the 1980s; "Unlock Your Mind", recorded by the Staple Singers and a no.16 R&B hit in 1978; and "The Only Way Is Up", originally recorded by Otis Clay in 1980. A version of "The Only Way Is Up" by Yazz & The Plastic Population reached no.1 on the UK singles chart, and no.2 on the Billboard dance chart, in 1988.

In 1983, Jackson formed his own publishing company, Happy Hooker Music, before joining Malaco Records as a staff songwriter. There he wrote hits for Johnnie Taylor, Bobby Bland, Latimore, Denise LaSalle, and Z.Z. Hill. He recorded an album of his own songs, Heart To Heart Collect, in 1991 for Hep' Me Records. In 2011, a compilation CD of his FAME recordings, Don't Count Me Out, was released.

Jackson died on April 14, 2013, at his home in Ridgeland, Mississippi, from cancer at the age of 68. He left a son and two grandchildren.

Samples and interpolations

In 2018 Kanye West sampled "I Can't Do Without You" in the song "Come Back Baby" on Pusha T's album Daytona.
In 2000 Ghostface Killah sampled "Aretha, Sing One for Me" in the song "Child's Play" on the album Supreme Clientele.

Discography

Albums
 1991 : Heart To Heart Collect
 2002 : George Jackson in Muscle Shoals
 2006 : What Would Your Mama Say
 2009 : In Memphis 1972–77
 2010 : All Because Of Your Love
 2011 : Don't Count Me Out: The Fame Recordings (Volume 1)
 2012 : Let the Best Man Win: The Fame Recordings (Volume 2)
 2013 : Old Friend: The Fame Recordings (Volume 3)

References

External links
Discography

A tribute to George Jackson with earlier interviews at Soul Express

1945 births
2013 deaths
Musicians from Greenville, Mississippi
Singers from Mississippi
Songwriters from Mississippi
American soul musicians
Deaths from cancer in Mississippi
People from Ridgeland, Mississippi
People from Indianola, Mississippi
African-American male songwriters
20th-century African-American male singers
21st-century African-American male singers

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Free Birmingham performing arts events with Birmingham Arts Drive-In
Some of the best in performing arts in Birmingham and you can see it for free at the Birmingham Arts Drive-In at UAB.
Birmingham Arts Drive-In
Birmingham Arts Drive-in is a free way to experience the best of Birmingham's performing arts while both the audience and the artists practice social distancing. See performances from the UAB's Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center, Alabama Ballet, Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Opera Birmingham and Red Mountain Theatre Company.
Our own Jeh Jeh Pruitt will emcee the live event Thursday, July 30, and Friday, July 31. The performances will be debuted live on a big screen in the parking lot on University Boulevard at 16th Street South, across from the UAB Campus Recreation Center and adjacent to the Hill Student Center.
A reservation is required for this free event; reserve a spot at AlysStephens.org to guarantee your space. Performance audio will be transmitted on 90.6 FM from the UAB campus. Stop by your favorite restaurant for curbside food to enjoy during the event. The show will start at 8:30 p.m. Ticketholders should arrive between 7 and 7:45 p.m. Patrons must remain in their cars.
Ballet, Opera, Symphony Orchestra and more!
The Birmingham Arts Drive-in performances will include:
From Alabama Ballet, Act 2 pas de deux from George Balanchine's "The Nutcracker," featuring choreography by Balanchine and performers Carolina Marques and Frederick Lee Rocas; and the Contemporary pas de deux from "Shoo-Pah!" featuring choreography by Roger Van Fleteren and performers Madison Ryan and Andres Castillo. Each pair of dancers consists of couples who live together.
From the Alys Stephens Center, Birmingham's favorite jazz guitarist Eric Essix will perform his original songs "Foot Soldiers," Gravitate" and "Creole Strut" with his band, James "PJ" Spraggins, drums; Sean Michael Ray, bass; and Joseph Stallworth, keyboards.
From the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Mozart's "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" (Serenade, K.525), featuring Carlos Izcaray, conductor; Daniel Szasz, Pei-Ju Wu, Serghei Tanas and Sodam Lim, violin; Zakaria Enikeev and Rene Reder, viola; Warren Samples, cello; and Alexander Horton, double bass.
From Opera Birmingham, Kathleen Farrar Buccleugh, soprano, and Christy Vest, piano, will perform "O mio babbino caro" from Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi"; "Chacun le sait" from Donizetti's "The Daughter of the Regiment"; and "You'll Never Walk Alone" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Carousel."
From Red Mountain Theatre Company, Kristen Campbell and Kurt Jenkins will perform "The Sun is Gonna Shine Again" from "Bright Star" by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell; Alie B. Gorrie will perform "On My Way" from "Violet" by Jeanine Tesori and libretto by Brian Crawley, based on the short story "The Ugliest Pilgrim" by Doris Betts; and Brandon McCall will perform "Wait for It" from "Hamilton."
"We are pleased to host this drive-in arts event on UAB's campus because we recognize the importance the arts play in our community," UAB Senior Vice President and Provost Pam Benoit, Ph.D. said.
Vehicles will be parked in order of arrival and to provide safe distancing. Space is limited. Alcoholic beverages are prohibited.
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Hervé-Louis-François-Bonaventure Clérel, comte de Tocqueville, né le  à Menou, mort le  à  Clairoix, est un homme politique français.

Biographie
Fils de Bernard-Bonaventure Clérel, comte de Tocqueville, mestre-de-camp de cavalerie, major du régiment Commissaire Général cavalerie, chevalier de l'ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis, et de Catherine de Damas-Crux, Hervé Clérel de Tocqueville est le neveu de Louis-Étienne-François de Damas-Crux, de François de Damas-Crux et d'Étienne-Charles de Damas-Crux.

Il devient orphelin à l'âge de 13 ans, reçoit l'éducation d'un précepteur particulier, l'abbé Lesueur, et entre dans l'armée comme lieutenant de remplacement au régiment de Vexin en 1787.

Au début de la Terreur, il émigre à Bruxelles, mais revient à Paris au bout d'un mois pour s'engager dans la Garde constitutionnelle du Roi Louis XVI.

Il épouse, le , Louise Le Peletier de Rosanbo, fille de Louis Le Peletier de Rosanbo et petite-fille de Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, avocat de Louis XVI. Ils eurent trois enfants : Hippolyte, Édouard et Alexis.

Le , Malesherbes et sa famille sont arrêtés et emprisonnés à Port-Royal. Rosanbo est guillotiné le , le 22, Malesherbes, sa fille,  de Rosanbo, sa petite-fille,  de Chateaubriand et son mari, frère de l'écrivain François-René de Chateaubriand. Hervé de Tocqueville, sa femme Louise,  d'Aunay sa belle-sœur, Louis de Rosanbo, son beau-frère échappant à l'échafaud la veille de la date prévue de leur exécution, par la chute de Robespierre le 9 thermidor.

Hervé s'installe avec sa famille au château de Verneuil-sur-Seine après leur libération et devient maire de la commune à partir de 1804 malgré son opposition à l'Empire.

Avec son fils Hippolyte, il participe, à la chute de Napoléon , aux manifestations royalistes en faveur de la restauration des Bourbons au sein de la garde à cheval. Le , il est nommé préfet de Maine-et-Loire. Destitué sous les Cent-jours, il est nommé le , préfet de l'Oise, puis de la Côte-d'Or en 1816, de la Moselle en 1817, de la Somme en 1823, et de Seine-et-Oise en 1826.

Le , il est nommé gentilhomme honoraire de la Chambre du roi et pair de France. Il prend plusieurs fois la parole à la Chambre haute, dont il est exclu après la monarchie de Juillet (1830), en vertu de l'article 68 de la nouvelle Charte. Il se retire alors à Clairoix.

Décorations
 Officier de la Légion d'honneur (1821)
 Commandeur de l'ordre de l'Aigle rouge (1817)
 Commandeur de l'ordre du mérite civil de la Couronne de Bavière

Publications
 De la Charte provinciale (1829) ;
 Pétition aux deux chambres, relatives à  la duchesse de Berry(1832) ;
 Du crédit agricole (1838) ;
 Histoire philosophique du règne de Louis XV (1846) ;
 Coup d'œil sur le règne de Louis XVI.
 Jean-Louis Benoît, Mémoires d'Hervé Clérel, Comte de Tocqueville, 1772-1856, mai 2018.

Notes et références

Bibliographie
 Emmanuel de Blic, Hervé Clérel, comte de Tocqueville : pair de France, préfet de la Restauration, sa descendance, Tocqueville, Blic, La Bourdonnaye, Thuisy, 1951.

Voir aussi

Article connexe

 Château des Ravalet, (ou château de Tourlaville).

Lien externe

 Hervé de Tocqueville, sur www.tocqueville.culture.fr

Naissance en août 1772
Décès en juin 1856
Officier de la Légion d'honneur
Militaire français du XVIIIe siècle
Pair de France (Restauration)
Émigré sous la Révolution française
Préfet de Maine-et-Loire
Préfet de l'Oise
Préfet de la Côte-d'Or
Préfet de la Moselle
Préfet de la Somme
Préfet de Seine-et-Oise
Maire du Premier Empire
Comte français du XVIIIe siècle
Comte français du XIXe siècle
Décès à 83 ans
Décès dans l'Oise
Alexis de Tocqueville


CANADA: Aphria Inc. completed its first transfer of plant cuttings from four of the Company's cannabis strains to Denmark-based Schroll Medical, as part of the Company's previously announced Strategic Partnership with Schroll. The shipment was completed under permits issued by the relevant health authorities, including an export permit from Health Canada, an import permit from the Danish Medicines Agency and a phytosanitary certificate from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
As previously announced, Aphria will handle the worldwide distribution of medical cannabis produced by the Partnership, which is anticipated to be made available to markets across Europe as medical cannabis markets develop. Aphria plans to complete a second shipment of additional strains to Schroll in the coming months.


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Mark Lanegan, grunge, and the gone generation
Photo Steve Gullick
Mark Lanegan was not a household name. But when I think of grunge – that Seattle sound, that briefly hip '90s trend – I often think first of Lanegan's husky baritone with the Screaming Trees, and all the ache and strength it conveyed.
Lanegan died suddenly at 57 this week, and for a certain brand of music lover, it was a painful blow to lose this troubled, damaged yet powerful figure.
Lanegan showed a way out of just being a grunge star. The bands that are left intact are mostly ones like Pearl Jam or Mudhoney, who've settled into amiable patterns where their music isn't a heck of a lot different in 2022 than it was in 1992.
When Kurt Cobain died, half my lifetime ago, the thing that struck me hardest was that we'd never know what he might have done next, never follow up on the intriguing directions things like In Utero and MTV Unplugged hinted at. Lanegan, more than any other musician in the grunge era, picked up his longtime friend Cobain's challenge and continued exploring and innovating until the day he died.
I loved Screaming Trees, who bubbled under the superstar level of bands like Nirvana. Their single "Nearly Lost You" was their biggest popular hit, but the band – all towering, lumberjack like characters who seemed as ominious as their cartoony threat of a name – were a powerful machine that were driven by Lanegan's urge to be more than just a screamer. Like TAD, another band a bit too raw to make it big, they felt like whispers and ghosts of the Northwest backwoods, sasquatch with guitars.
The Trees combusted, and Lanegan was different when he branched out into underrated, heavily diverse solo work. Always a looming, dangerous figure, haunted by addictions and violence he wrote compellingly about in recent memoirs, Lanegan's very voice let you know he had seen the darkness and stared deep. Many obituaries focused on how with the punishment he inflicted on himself, Lanegan should've been dead years ago.
As he aged, he became a kind of Seattle fusion of Nick Cave and Johnny Cash, charged with Old Testament authority and willing to experiment, collaborate and cast his sound far outside a narrow grunge template. He swerved from the dusty country-fried songwriting of Whiskey For The Holy Ghost to the sweet-and-sour collaborations with Isobel Campbell, the '70s hard rock stomp of his work with Queens Of The Stone Age, to dabbling in dark synth-pop in Blues Funeral. His final album, Straight Songs of Sorrow, seemed to amalgamate all of his interests to craft a dark, autobiographical mini-masterpiece.
It was also reminded me of how so many of the great voices of his peers have left far too early, turning grunge – a term many couldn't stand, but it's stuck like glue – into kind of a lost generation. There will be no big the-whole-band-gets-back-together reunion tours for Soundgarden, Nirvana, Alice in Chains or Screaming Trees.
The list is long – Kurt Cobain, of course (suicide, 27), Stone Temple Pilots' Scott Weiland (drugs, 48), Chris Cornell (suicide, 52), pre-grunge/glam act Mother Love Bone's singer Andrew Patrick Wood (heroin, just 24), Gits singer Mia Zapata (murdered, 27); Alice in Chains' Layne Staley (heroin/cocaine, 34) and Mike Starr (prescription overdose, 44), Hole's Kristin Pfaff (overdose, 27); poppier act Blind Melon's lead singer Shannon Hoon (cocaine, 28).
Music and young death are no strangers, of course, and there's been "lost generations" before, from the deaths of Janis, Jimi and Jim (you don't even need to say their last names, do you?) to the rap slayings of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. to the present, in the deaths of those like XXXTentacion and Lil Peep.
But grunge was my soundtrack to an age where you listen to music more obsessively than other, and nobody wants to watch their own generation slowly be washed away.
I lived a boring, drama-free 1990s compared to the antics of Lanegan, Cobain and their peers – rare binges of tequila and vodka were my peak indulgence – but the appeal of grunge to me was that the yearning of singers like Lanegan felt universal. We all ache in different ways. We all have addictions. I realised a long time ago that I'd easily get hooked on some of the temptations of the world given half a chance. I was an amateur at addiction, but something in me responded to Lanegan's deep, groaning voice.
Friend Bob got to see him in his elemental power a few years back, and I'm very jealous. Lanegan overcame his demons and was clean for years, but a bout with COVID-19 last year nearly killed him and I wouldn't surprised if it led directly to his early death.
Once upon a time, I would've said that making it to 57 was a decent run. But it doesn't seem that way when you get close to it. Mark Lanegan was a guide through some of the darkness of life, wrapped heavily in all its shadows himself. He might have been the last lingering reminder of the power of grunge behind the hype and sadness, and that generation is gone and never coming back.
Author nik dirgaPosted on February 26, 2022 February 26, 2022 Tags Music, obituaries
2 thoughts on "Mark Lanegan, grunge, and the gone generation"
GuitarBri73 says:
Mark's passing is abrupt and sad but the integrity of his work and in his voice as well as his personal struggle with heroin among other substances continues to influence my sobriety.He was a beautiful human being who understood the humility needed to move on from his past.We are all lucky that he wanted to clean up and move forward.Like Kurt,Layne and so many others he will be sorely missed…..my heart is broken brother Mark but you've more than earned your rest,sleep in eternal peace and thank you for everything
rlwcycle says:
Nice piece of writing. I got to see Lanegan a few times. Screaming Trees, Soul Asylum and Spin Doctors was the first time. MTV 120 minutes tour. Then I saw him with QOTSA in 02. I think I could have met him. He walked through the lobby of the venue, early before the show. I yelled out his name and he kind of gave me a friendly wave. I was busy talking to Josh Homme. I didn't want to walk away from that. The last time was a Gutter Twins show. Thanks. Gonna miss him.
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Q: How to properly run GUI VNC clients on Cygwin I want to use vinagre or remmina VNC clients but they fail to run:
$ vinagre
C:/cygwin64/bin/vinagre.exe: error while loading shared libraries: cygvte-2.91-0.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

$ remmina
C:/cygwin64/bin/remmina.exe: error while loading shared libraries: cygvte-2.91-0.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I can't find anything on cygvte, I installed vte using apt-cyg but that didn't fix the issue.
How to acquire the required resource?
Update! I followed DavidPostill's answer, but it turned into a Dominoes! I kept resolving the dependencies and it kept asking for more, I installed these:
libvte2.91_0 libtelepathy-glib0 libspice-client-gtk3.0_5 libspice-client-glib2.0_8 libsecret1_0 libgtk-vnc2.0_0 libfreerdp1.2  libdbus-glib_1_2 libavahi-ui-gtk3_0 libavahi-gobject0 libavahi-common3

Now it came to the point where the error doesn't even indicate what's missing:
$ vinagre
C:/cygwin64/bin/vinagre.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So I continued with Remmina:
$ remmina
C:/cygwin64/bin/remmina.exe: error while loading shared libraries: cygssh_threads-4.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So I installed libssh4 but it doesn't resolve the dependency, it throws the same error above.

A: I can't find anything on cygvte
You need the GTK+ terminal emulator widget package.

How can I find out which package GTK+ terminal emulator widget is in?
The easiest way to find the package containing a particular command or file is to use the Cygwin Package Search page:

*

*Open the Cygwin Package Search web page in your web browser.

*Enter the name of the program you are looking for (cygvte-2.91-0.dll).

*Press "Go" on the web page.

*Click on libvte2.91_0-0.50.2-1  as this is the most likely match.

This confirms that the GTK+ terminal emulator widget is the correct package to install to resolve your missing file issue.


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Thursday Jul 21 2022
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Active COVID-19 case count exceeds 10,000-mark in Pakistan again
Three youngsters wearing masks ride a motorcycle on a busy thoroughfare in Pakistan. — AFP/File
Pakistan reports 599 COVID-19 cases in last 24 hours.
Country's active coronavirus case count stands at 10,004.
Three more people succumb to COVID-19 overnight.
The active COVID-19 case count in Pakistan has exceeded the 10,000 mark again as 599 more people got infected with the virus during the last 24 hours, National Institute of Health, Islamabad (NIH) data showed Thursday morning.
The last time the active case count grew past 10,000 was on July 16 when the number of cases stood at 10,003.
The new COVID-19 infections were detected after diagnostic testing on 21,315 samples, placing the country's active case count at 10,004 cases and the positivity rate at 2.81%.
COVID-19 claims another seven lives in Pakistan
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Moreover, Pakistan's total number of COVID-19 cases climbed to 1,548,394.
Meanwhile, three patients suffering from coronavirus succumbed to the disease overnight, taking the country's COVID-19 death toll to 30,455, while 265 patients recovered.
However, 170 patients are still being treated in critical care units.
What is COVID BA.5 variant and why is it reinfecting so many people?
BA5, part of the Omicron family, is the latest coronavirus variant to cause widespread waves of infection globally.
According to the World Health Organisation's most recent report, it was behind 52% of cases sequenced in late June, up from 37% in one week. In the United States, it is estimated to be causing around 65% of infections.
Rising case numbers
BA5 is not new. First identified in January, it has been tracked by the WHO since April.
It is a sister variant of the Omicron strain that has been dominant worldwide since the end of 2021 and has already caused spikes in case rates – even with reduced testing – in countries including South Africa, where it was first found, as well as the United Kingdom, parts of Europe, and Australia.
Coronavirus cases worldwide have now been rising for four weeks in a row, WHO data showed.
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Like its closely related sibling, BA4, BA5 is particularly good at evading the immune protection afforded either by vaccination or prior infection.
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Removal of keepsakes from plaques at Canley Crematorium branded "heartless"
'They had gone and collected up everything - photos and all sorts, taken them all away'
Enda Mullen
The removal of personal mementos placed around plaques at Canley Crematorium in memory of loved ones has been branded "heartless" by a Coventry woman whose father was cremated there.
Tracy Box has told the Telegraph how vases and other personal mementos were removed from the sign put up in memory of her father Noel Price.
Mr Price died ten years ago and ever since his family have regularly placed vases of flowers and other mementos around it.
Some of the vases and mementoes removed from around plaques in memory of loved ones at Canley Crematorium (Image: Handout, Publicity Picture)
But last week all the items were removed - something which was discovered by Mr Price's widow Sylvia when she went to visit to place fresh flowers there.
Tracy said: "Last Thursday my mother Sylvia, who is 80 next year, had gone up to take some fresh flowers but when she arrived was nothing there. Keepsakes, vases - everything had been removed.
"She was distressed and went up to the lodge and they said you can't have anything there.
"My father has been there for ten years and no one has ever said anything before. Everybody's plaque has keepsakes and vases."
Tracy said her mother was told the rule was only fresh flowers could be placed around plaques and that only bordered plots could have vases and other keepsakes.
The plaque in memory of Noel Price at Canley Crematorium before items placed there by his family were removed (Image: Handout, Publicity Picture)
All the items removed had been retained and were on display, but her mum was only able to reclaim vases as they had her late husband's name on them.
Tracy said it was not the enforcement of the rule which troubled her but the fact no one was warned it was going to be implemented.
"It is just the way they have gone about it, she added.
"The fact there was no notice."
"It is just distressing. Surely there's a much more sympathetic way they could have gone about it?
"To do it without fair warning to anyone is just a little bit heartless."
The plaque in memory of Noel Price at Canley Crematorium after items placed there by his family were removed
On Friday last week Tracy said she visited the crematorium as she wanted to see the situation for herself and voice her concern.
"They had gone and collected up everything - photos and all sorts, taken them all away," she said.
"There is just a great big pile of personal items - photos, things hand-made by grandchildren.
"I was aware when I went up there I was just going to see a bare patch of ground with a plaque but I was still upset, though a lady got me a few things back.
"Everyone's possessions had been put up on a wall and a sign dug up from somewhere which said we are not allowed to put anything on there.
"But we have never been made aware of that and from the amount of stuff it was clear no one else was.
"The lady said it was possible they had turned a blind eye but were now enforcing it.
"It's just the way no one was informed. It is a sensitive subject."
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Tracy also feels the rules on fresh flowers leave a lot to be desired.
"They are saying you can't have a vase, just put loose flowers and leave them on the ground and they will dispose of them when they become ugly," she said.
"They are not going to last 24 hours in the heat, in the rain they will look awful and in the wind they will get blown all over the place."
She added: "You go up there some days, like Father's Day, and it looks so pretty - everyone got flowers - but now it just looks so bare, sad and neglected.
"My eldest contacted bereavement services and they said that basically they are enforcing this rule - it is just a case of fresh flowers and they will remove them when they are past their best.
"It is different if you have got a bordered plot, you can place keepsakes within borders but if you don't have a bordered plot you can't place anything.
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"We are not going to cause trouble - if that is the rule we will abide by it - but we were flabbergasted and my mum is still upset and shocked about it. It is not a nice thing to do to anyone."
A spokesperson for Coventry City Council said: "We will not remove any items from private graves unless there is a specific issue and we have already contacted the family.
"We have been removing some of the items left in communal areas in the Gardens of Remembrance as these can hamper our gardeners' ability to maintain the area to the level we – and families – would want.
"All items removed are kept in storage for collection.
"We apologise if this has caused anyone distress, but we have to do all we can to keep the gardens well-maintained and looking their best for all visitors."
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City of San Bernardino » About » History » History of San Bernardino (Short Version)
San Bernardino's colorful history begins in the early years of the 19th century. Spanish missionaries were the first settlers to the region. They chose the fertile valley at the foot of a majestic mountain range as an outpost for other missionaries who traveled throughout the California territory preaching to the various Indian tribes.
Tradition has it that Father Francisco Dumetz made his last trip from Mission San Gabriel to the San Bernardino Valley and on May 20, 1810 set up an altar in a planned effort to convert the Indians living there. Padre Dumetz named the area "San Bernardino" after Saint Bernardino of Siena, the patron saint of the day on the Catholic Calendar.
In 1819, Mission San Gabriel established Rancho San Bernardino in the area. The main concern of the missionaries was the spiritual welfare of the Indians, but they also took a part in their material well being, showing their peaceful friends how to bring water down from Mill creek and the best ways to plant and irrigate crops. As the mission flourished, so did the Indians.
Old San Bernardino Mission (Branch of San Gabriel) 1820
However, all missions were ordered closed by decree of California's Governor Figeroa in 1834 and the mission period came to an end. But with its demise came the birth of the Great Spanish rancheros. The abandoned mission didn't stay vacant for long and soon became an important post on the trading route known as the Spanish Trail.
Pioneer trailblazers like Kit Carson and Jedediah Smith, among others, spent a good deal of time in the valley during those years. Beautiful haciendas were built to house the Spanish landowners and the ranchos were kept in a constant state of excitement from all the fiestas, rodeos, horse races and celebrations of religious holidays.
The biggest threat to the happy life on the ranchos was the horse and cattle-stealing raids made by tribes of desert Indians. Usually made during the full moon, these attacks could wipe out a rancho's entire herd and many rancheros eventually gave up and moved out of the area. The stealing continued, however, until a company of nearly 500 Mormons arrived in the valley in 1851, making camp at the mouth of a creek which flowed briskly through the valley to the Santa Ana River. Overjoyed with the abundance of water, the dense growth of willows, cottonwoods and sycamores and the mustard and wild oats that grew on the hillsides, the followers named the stream "Lytle Creek" after their leader, Captain Andrew Lytle.
Dedicated to expanding Brigham Young's religious empire, the religious pioneers purchased 35,000 acres of the San Bernardino Rancho in 1851, for $77,500, with a down payment of $7,000. Having heard tales about the Indian attacks, the Mormons quickly built a stockade around the rancho and named it Fort San Bernardino. The families lived inside the stockade for the first few years, growing wheat and other crops outside and building a grain mill inside. But since the Mormons weren't raising cattle or horses, the desert Indians were no longer a threat and soon families were able to move out and build their own homes.
In the fall of 1852, Colonel Henry Washington, a United States deputy surveyor, erected a monument on top of Mount San Bernardino and through it ran the base line from which surveys in the southern part of the state were, and are still made. The community thrived and in 1854 the City of San Bernardino was officially incorporated. Population at the time was 1,200 - 900 of them Mormons. San Bernardino was strictly a temperance town, with no drinking or gambling allowed.
In 1857 Brigham Young recalled his Mormons to Salt Lake City. Some went, taking great financial losses, while others opted to remain and struggled to continue on their own. In the six short years that the Mormons followed their mission at San Bernardino Rancho, they made numerous achievements, establishing schools, stores, a network of roads and a strong government.
Gold was discovered in Holcomb Valley in 1860 and men poured into the mountains through San Bernardino to try their luck at panning. For a time Belleville, in Holcomb Valley, was the largest city in Southern California with 10,000 residents, and it almost became the county seat, losing to San Bernardino by only one vote.
Times were rough and hard, just like the men who came in search of instant wealth, and numerous internal problems plagued the God-fearing settlers. The community survived and both the library and temperance associations were created at this time.
(9th & E Streets, 1891)
As the last years of the 19th century waned, the giant railway companies eventually found their way to San Bernardino, changing it from a sleepy town into an enterprising city. The Santa Fe, the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific railroads all converged on the city, making it the hub of their Southern California operations.
Competition between the railroads set off a rate war, which brought thousands of newcomers to California in the great land boom of the 1880's. When the Santa Fe Railway established a transcontinental link in 1886, the already prosperous valley exploded. Even more settlers flocked from the East and population figures doubled, from 6,150 in 1900 to 12,779 in 1910, the year that the San Bernardino Chamber of Commerce was first organized.
(E Street, 1900's)
A well-known landmark of the San Bernardino Valley is the arrowhead that sits high on the mountainside. Clearly visible since long before the white man came, the figure has many legends concerning its origin. The Indians, well aware of the medicinal value of the hot springs, often gathered there to bathe in the hot springs. The Mormons called the mark the "Ace of Spades".
Measuring 1,375 feet long and 449 feet wide, the arrowhead is visible from as far away as 30 miles on a clear day. Although it was commonly believed at one time that the Indians had made the arrowhead to mark the location of the hot springs, geologists now say that it is a natural phenomenon, a natural uplifting of the soil.
As the years went by, San Bernardino floundered and flourished with growing pains, just as all communities do. The good times went hand-in-hand with the bad times. Today, of course, San Bernardino has grown into a civilized, urban center - a modern community with a bright future. The enduring spirit and vitality of yesterday's pioneers is still evident and is reflected in the pride of the community.
For an enhanced version of San Bernardino's history, click on Sesquicentennial (1810-1960)


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Governor Cuomo Signs Bill Amending the Human Rights Law
By: Theresa E. Rusnak and Subhash Viswanathan
On August 12, 2019, Governor Cuomo signed the legislation that was passed by the New York State Assembly and Senate on June 19, 2019, making sweeping changes to the New York Human Rights Law. We previously posted a summary of the significant amendments to the Human Rights Law and the potential impact that these amendments could have on the litigation of discrimination and harassment claims filed with the Division of Human Rights and in court. Now that the legislation has been signed by the Governor, we now know the dates when each of the various amendments will become effective.
As explained in our previous blog post, the legislation broadens the legal definition of "harassment" to eliminate the "severe or pervasive" standard. Any harassment based on a protected characteristic that rises above "petty slights or trivial inconveniences" will now potentially be actionable under the statute. This expanded definition of "harassment" will take effect 60 days after the date of the Governor's signature, on October 11, 2019.
The new legislation also opens up the possibility that an employer may still be found liable for alleged harassment even if the employee did not report the alleged harassment to the employer prior to filing a complaint under the Human Rights Law. This provision will also take effect on October 11, 2019.
The new legislation also expands the definition of "employer" under the Human Rights Law by eliminating the requirement that an entity have at least four employees in order to be covered by the law. This expanded definition of "employer" will take effect 180 days after the date of the Governor's signature, on February 8, 2020.
The new legislation also expands certain prohibitions that were previously applicable only to sexual harassment claims. For example, the new legislation makes it unlawful to insert a non-disclosure provision into a settlement agreement in order to resolve any type of employment discrimination or harassment claim, unless the inclusion of the non-disclosure provision is the complainant's preference. Mandatory arbitration clauses, which were prohibited last year for sexual harassment claims, will also now be prohibited for all types of employment discrimination and harassment claims. It will also now be an unlawful discriminatory practice for an employer to permit any type of discrimination against non-employees in its workplace (contractors, subcontractors, vendors, consultants, or any other individuals providing services pursuant to a contract in the workplace) based on any protected characteristic. These new prohibitions will take effect on October 11, 2019.
The new legislation also increases the potential financial penalties applicable to employment discrimination claims to include punitive damages and reasonable attorneys' fees. These increased financial penalties will take effect on October 11, 2019.
Finally, for sexual harassment claims only, the new legislation expands the statute of limitations from one year to three years for filing a complaint with the Division of Human Rights. The statute of limitations for filing employment discrimination or harassment claims directly with a court is currently three years, but complainants will also now be able to take advantage of the administrative complaint process for sexual harassment claims for three years after the alleged harassment occurred. This new statute of limitations for filing administrative complaints of sexual harassment will take effect in one year, on August 12, 2020.
The impact of these changes will be profound, and will almost certainly lead to an increase in the number of workplace harassment complaints that are filed. It is more important than ever that employers comply with their obligation to conduct training sessions for their employees regarding appropriate workplace conduct at least annually. Bond attorneys are available to conduct in-person training sessions prior to the October 9 deadline for any employer that has not yet conducted the training sessions. In addition, Bond's labor and employment practice has developed an online training program that is compliant with all aspects of the Human Rights Law, including the new legal standard for harassment claims.
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