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The book of Romans launched the Protestant Reformation in the early 16th century. It was the greatest upheaval in the history of the church. The apostle's teachings struck Martin Luther like a thunderbolt, and the church has not been the same since. This verse by verse analysis of Paul's letter to the Romans explains his reasoning on two life altering concepts, the role of the true church in providing an avenue to offer acceptable sacrifices through faith, and the Christian life of sanctification. This book is the result of a year long study by the New Albany-Louisville ecclesia. We offer it here as a wonderful aid in opening your understanding to some essential truths of God's plan.
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Ereignisse

Politik und Weltgeschehen
 Kyros II. wird König von Alt-Persien.

Wissenschaft und Technik
 In seinem Akzessionsjahr (560 bis 559 v. Chr.) lässt der babylonische König Nergal-šarra-uṣur den Schaltmonat Addaru II ausrufen, der am 9. März beginnt. Sein erstes Regierungsjahr beginnt am 1. Nisannu 559 v. Chr.
 Im babylonischen Kalender fällt das babylonische Neujahr des 1. Nisannu auf den 7.–8. April; der Vollmond im Nisannu auf den 20.–21. April und der 1. Tašritu auf den 30. September–1. Oktober.

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Smith hopes to play third Test, but quick turnaround is a hurdle
Steve Smith is hoping to clear all the tests and training he needs to, to confirm he is "100% fit" ahead of the third Ashes Test.
Smith, Australia's best batsman in the series so far, was withdrawn from the second Test at Lord's on the fifth and final day on Sunday, 18 August, after tests revealed he had a concussion from being hit by a Jofra Archer bouncer the previous day. There remain questions of his availability for the third Test at Headingley starting August 22, given the short break between the two matches.
Smith expects to be assessed a couple of times a day to measure his progress. "I'm hopeful I will be available for that Test match, but it's certainly up to the medical staff and we'll have conversations. It's certainly an area of concern concussion and I want to be 100% fit," Smith said.
"I've got to be able to train probably a couple of days out and face fast bowling to make sure my reaction time and all that kind of stuff is in place," he said.
"I didn't have any real pain in my neck yesterday when I touched it or when anyone else touched it. Today I do have a bit of pain there, whether that's some swelling or what I'm not sure. Perhaps that's leading to me having a headache and feeling a bit groggy. In regards to the arm, the arm feels pretty good today. It's quite a good bruise I have on it but it's feeling a lot better. The movement I have in it is far greater than I had yesterday and that feels really good," he stated.
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A couple of weeks ago Microsoft announced that they would not discuss sales of its console and now there is finally a good news, the Xbox One was the most sold console during the October in the United States, which represented a sales increase of 81 percent over the same period last year.
The increase in sales could be due to many factors, including the release of games like Fallout 4, the Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 or Halo 5: Guardians (the best selling game of the month) or even update that arrived a few days ago to the console, which would allow it to run more than 100 Xbox 360 games thanks to integrate its compatibility with the previous generation console.
Sony will be wondering what happened, as they have been leading the market all year, and after lowering the price of the console at $50, they were expected to further improve sales compared to the Xbox One. Without doubt, the most important month is December.


Nothing is too hard for Me to do, says the LORD. NOTHING! Absolutely nothing! For I Am Almighty. I Am never too late! I Am never oblivious of what is going on, and I Am NEVER absent. You can depend upon My power! You can rely upon My Wisdom! You can KNOW that I AM in the midst of you all the time, says the LORD. I Am not a silent observer, there to sympathize with you only, but the comfort that you have from Me by My Spirit is more than that. I am the All-Powerful One that is the Supreme, the uncontested, HELPER. I will help you, and you will have everything that you need, because I Am good for it, says the LORD.
Dare to believe, says the LORD, for the word, "Impossible," does not pertain to Me. I Am your sufficiency in all things and I Am all that you have need of. I Am on your side and you are not helpless. Fear on every side does not have to accompany trouble that is on every side. Make Me your only fear and know that as you reverence Me and revere My great Name, I will give you all that you have need of, bring you out of trouble and furnish you for every good work that I have ordained for your life. You will never be unfinished business in My kingdom, for I will complete every good work that I have begun in you. That Work is progressing in you, and it shall be a complete and perfect work of MY grace that will unfold, be exposed and confound and defeat the enemy, says the Lord.
Amen! Be my Almighty Restoration and Helper!
AAAAAAAMMMEENNNN AND AAAAAAAMMMEENNN YESSSSSSSSSSS LORD THANK YOU HOLY SPIRIT. WOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO I BELIEVE RECEIVE AND CLAIM THIS POWERFUL WORD DECLARATION IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS AND ALL GLORY TO GOD ALONE AAAAAAAMMMEENNNN AND AAAAAAAMMMEENNNN!
We Thank You Lord God…Amen.
Praise honour and glory to God almighty father, I believe it and thanks blessed God, Amen.
God made all things by His will and by the power of His Word so nothing is hard for God to do. Jesus is the eternal Word of God that became man so there's nothing hard for Jesus to do. He cure sick people by the power of His Word. He raised the dead to life by the power of His Word. But He did not do miracles to unbelievers,that's the reason why Jesus did only few miracles on His hometown because of their unbelief.


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JUST IN: DSS Arrests Ifeanyi Uba of Capital Oil Over Economic Sabotage
Managing Director of Capital Oil, Chief Ifeany Uba
In line with the statutory mandate of the Department of State Services (DSS) to investigate economic crimes of national security dimension, the Service, on 5th May 2017, arrested Ifeanyi UBAH, Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas Limited.
The arrest was a sequel to UBAH's engagement in acts of economic sabotage which include stealing, diversion and illegal sale of petroleum products stored in his tank farm by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). So far, it has been established that the products stolen amount to over Eleven Billion Naira (N11bn). There is no doubt that UBAH's acts have the capacity to negatively impact on national economy.
It is instructive to note that UBAH has further engaged in other activities inimical to national security and public order. In furtherance of his gimmicks to undermine the government and people of Nigeria, he has incited members of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD), a critical player in the downstream sub-sector of the Petroleum Industry, to refuse/stop the lifting of products.
This is part of his plans to curry their sentiments and cause them to embark on strike and also stage protests in his favour with the ulterior motive of arm-twisting the NNPC to abandon the cause of recovering the stolen products. The implications of this on law and order is, in fact, a common knowledge. It is consequent upon this that the Service arrested and will prosecute him forthwith.
The public is hereby reassured that the Service will collaborate with appropriate agencies to ensure that the mischievous activities of any person or group(s) to engage in illegal activities will not affect the effective distribution of products across the country. It will also support such agencies to bring to book individuals or companies involved in any criminal act that undermines the nation's economy.
Tony OPUIYO
Department of State Services
May 6, 2017 Ike A. Offor	Economic sabotage, Ifeanyi Uba, NNPC, petroleum theft
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Grand Falls-Windsor municipal workers to hold information picket Wednesday, December 11
creynolds December 10, 2019 News Release
Town of Grand Falls-Windsor in violation of contract with municipal workers
The union representing municipal workers employed by the Town of Grand Falls-Windsor says that the employer is acting in violation of their collective agreement and not being upfront with residents about operational changes to be implemented over the next two months. Representatives of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1349 will hold an information picket on December 11, to voice their concerns and to make the public aware of the cuts to jobs and services.
WHAT: Information picket at town hall
WHEN: Wednesday, December 11 at 12 p.m.
WHERE: 7 High Street, Grand Falls-Windsor
In a letter received from the town on November 29, the union found a number of 'red flags' that will affect unionized workers, violate the collective agreement, and impact services to residents.
"We have replied to the town's CAO, asking for more details about the changes," says CUPE national representative Ed White. "We also asked that the town reconsider how the changes will be implemented and to respect the contract with our members."
A municipal enforcement officer is one of the positions that will be lost. However, this job cut is not a recommendation made in KPMG report. "Why is the town cutting a security position when the council has expressed the need for more police presence in the town due to an increase in crime and drugs?" asks White.
"Other red flags the union wants residents to be aware of include misinformation about job losses, wages, and vehicle maintenance costs. Also, the town intends to contract out services despite already having qualified, in-house staff to do the work," says White.
The KPMG report was given to the town in August and was released to the public at the end of November. Town management presented the union with a letter on November 29, outlining the recommendation's that will be implemented and informed workers that operational changes are expected to be implemented as early as January 2020.
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Whether the objective is to spread brand awareness, gain a larger following on social media, or increase total revenue—influencer marketing has become quite the go-to strategy for brands who are looking to win it big.
It's easy to see why marketers are prioritizing influencer marketing over email, paid search, and display ads. Everyone is in 'skip-ad' mode, which means that getting your product in front of the eyeballs of your target audience could very difficult, and in a lot of cases, downright expensive. Luckily, working with influencers has made it possible for brands to circumnavigate ad blocking and engage target audiences with unique and interesting content.
However, a lot of brands still fall trap to the notion that in order to win big, you must also spend big. And, with marketing budgets to keep in check, some brands remain on the fence about whether or not they should give influencer marketing a shot.
The good news is, influencer marketing is extremely flexible. With a clear set of goals and a good strategy, any brand can run successful influencer campaigns without breaking the bank.
In order to allocate your budget efficiently, determine first where influencers fit into your overall content marketing strategy. This way, it will be easier for you to identify the right influencers for the job, as well as determine which channels to explore. Without clear objectives, you might end up spending precious resources on the wrong assets.
Then again, even when all other components have been sorted out, budget problems still persist for some brands—especially when the biggest influencers they know are charging in the hundreds of thousands.
In such cases, we recommend working with micro-influencers. These are influencers with followers between 2,000 and 100,000 and generally charge lower than influencers with bigger audiences. But this doesn't mean you should expect lower ROI! In fact, working with micro-influencers allows you to connect with highly coveted niche audiences who are most likely to convert.
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Bangalore : In keeping with its core mission of creating awareness among the market participants about the benefits of hedging, and further contributing to the development of commodity derivatives market in India, Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. (MCX) and Copper Consumers Association of South India (CCASI) jointly organized an awareness programme today in Bangalore (Karnataka). The programme was mainly focused on the ways and means to hedge base metal price exposures using Rupee denominated commodity futures contracts.
Addressing a large gathering of association's members, Mr. NK Muthappa, AVP- Business Development, MCX, explained in detail about the advantages of an efficient derivatives market alongside communicating the benefits of hedging and price discovery offered by commodity futures market.
While elaborating about the benefits of futures contracts in base metals offered on the Exchange, TG Senthilvelan, Assistant Vice President-Business Development, MCX said that commodity exchanges such as MCX gives the base metal consumers an idea of the price at which the commodity would be available at a future point in time. With proper financial planning they can also cover their purchases.
Exporters, too, can benefit with an advance indication of the price likely to prevail, which can be used to quote a realistic price to secure export contracts in a competitive market. Entities, using base metals as inputs, can benefit by hedging their risks on MCX, irrespective of whether the commodity traded meets their requirements of exact quality/technical specifications, Mr. Senthilvelan explained.
Mr. Chittaranjan Rege, Vice President-Business Development, MCX said "To counter the risks of heightened volatility across commodities including Copper, in the current environment of global uncertainty, the market participants can hedge copper prices through exchange-traded futures and, thus, even out the cash flows.
"Further, as copper futures at MCX are traded in Indian Rupee, any currency risk associated with trade circuit is mitigated. Notably, to cater to the need of a wide array of market participants, MCX provides copper futures trading in two quantity denomination i.e. 1 tonne contract and 250 kgs contracts", Mr. Rege stated.
Want to know whether any seminar to be conducted in Delhi.. if yes.. when???


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O fuzil Berdan (em Russo:Винтовка Бердана, ou "Vintovka Berdanka") é um fuzil  de tiro único desenvolvido para o exército do Império Russo pelo armeiro Americano Hiram Berdan em 1868. Foi o fuzil padrão do exército Russo de 1869 a 1891 quando foi substituído pelo Mosin-Nagant. Foram desenvolvidos dois modelos do Berdan, o Berdan I em 1868 e o Berdan II em 1870. O Berdan I foi produzido em número limitado, já o modelo de 1870 foi produzido em larga escala.

Rifles esportivos e espingardas foram remanufaturados na Rússia a partir de fuzis Berdan excedentes depois que o Mosin-Nagant foi adotado em serviço.

Comparação com fuzis contemporâneos

Ver também
 Dreyse
 Rifle Sharps
 Chassepot

Ligações externas

 Take a Look at the Mosin-Nagant's Father, the 1870 Russian Berdan Rifle
 Berdan II, Бердана № 2 обр. 1870 года Vídeo

Fuzis de 7,62 mm
Fuzis da Rússia
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The sublime – and the Artemis Space Program
Posted byLewis Coyne 1st Sep 2022 5th Sep 2022 Posted inShort postsTags:Aesthetics, Artemis, Beauty, Deep ecology, Philosophy, Space, The Moon, The Sublime
My very first publication, written almost ten years ago now, was on the concept of the sublime in philosophical aesthetics.
What is the sublime? Probably everybody old enough to have refined aesthetic experiences will know what it feels like, even if they don't know its name. It's the sense of being wondrously overwhelmed by the vastness and force of something, usually a landscape, artwork, or building.
Perhaps you've felt it when looking up at a mighty snow-capped mountain, or when listening to the climax of a four-hour Wagnerian opera. I vividly remember standing beneath Cologne Cathedral, a gothic masterpiece blackened by centuries' worth of grime, and being awestruck by its sheer presence. The sublime carries a sense of feeling small before greatness, and it can be so powerful as to move you to tears.
In the 18th and 19th centuries philosophers like Immanuel Kant typically contrasted the sublime with the beautiful. Beauty is much more pleasurable to experience, and is typically brought about by something elegant, light, harmonious and contained. Think of an ornamental pond dotted with water lilies, as opposed to the roar and churn of the iron-grey Atlantic Ocean.
But in the last hundred-odd years the sublime has largely disappeared from mainstream philosophical and cultural discourse. And the reason why is the diminished role it has in modern life in general.
The processes of modernity set in chain during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries – experimental science, the industrial revolution, international capitalism – have drastically shrunk the Earth. Human settlements are no longer islands in the vastness of the natural world. It might have been possible to still think that way two hundred years ago, but today Earthly nature has been subsumed by our global techno-capitalist civilisation. There is no terra incognita to explore, no mountain left to ascend, or pole to reach. The Earth's mysteries have been unravelled, conquered through measurement and exploited through commodification. Although this leaves plenty of room for appreciating the beauty of the natural world, there are fewer opportunities to experience it as vast, powerful, and overwhelming – and thereby sublime.
If this is one key reason why the sublime has become less relevant to modern humanity, the other is the change in our built environments. Pre-modern societies constructed monuments and buildings that gave physical expression to great and abstract ideas – most obviously their conceptions of the gods, the afterlife, and our place in the universe. Well-known examples might be Stonehenge, the pyramids at Giza, or the Leshan Buddha. An encounter with any of these is still a sublime window into a very different culture. Today, however, our greatest buildings are skyscrapers and shopping malls, which symbolise little more than the capitalist mode of production. One of the many unfortunate consequences of this is to diminish the place of the sublime in modern life.
This is broadly what I argued in my MA dissertation, which formed the basis of my first ever publication. It might be too pessimistic for some readers, but I broadly stand by it. And the reason why these thoughts came back to me yesterday was hearing the news of NASA's Artemis Space Program.
Artemis represents the first exploration of extraterrestrial bodies with actual human beings since 1972: in this case, putting (female and African-American) astronauts on the Moon. Why now, though, fifty years since the last such mission? The answer is quite predictable: because of the new space race commencing with China for control of the Moon's territory, resources, and strategic importance. In other words: superpower competition.
Don't get me wrong, I'm keenly aware of the threat China poses to democracies around the world. But I can't get excited about the Artemis mission, because what it really represents is a major step forward in the conquering, taming, and commodifying of extraterrestrial nature.
Think of it this way: when human beings first set foot on the Moon, the event altered the Moon's significance for us. It ceased to be the most prominent feature of the mysterious heavens above us, and became simply another destination for human beings. With the half-century that's passed since the last person went to the Moon, it has at least stabilised in that significance: as somewhere human beings once went, but never returned to. With Artemis, though, the significance of the Moon will change again: becoming a research centre, military base, and way-station for missions to Mars.
Why does this matter? Because gazing at the night sky is one of the most common ways in which modern human beings can still encounter the sublime. Faced with the vastness of space we're reminded of our finitude before the infinite depths of the universe. We have that dizzying sense of overwhelmed wonder, and our lives are the richer for it. It is very likely an experience that human beings have shared for as long as our species has existed. But if we look up at the Moon, strip-mined and inhabited, will we still feel that way?
There is, though, one reason to remain partly optimistic. And this is to do with how a humanity that has colonised other celestial bodies might then feel about the Earth.
Some years ago I watched the fascinating documentary In the Shadow of the Moon (2007), which recounts the experiences of the twelve Apollo astronauts who set foot on it. Many of them described the experience of seeing the Earth from the Moon in almost religious terms. Not because it struck them as sublime, but quite the opposite: as beautiful. Once the Earth is seen as a green-blue jewel set against the otherwise monochrome sky, its beauty as a whole is revealed to us. Elegant, fragile, and neatly contained, its uniqueness as the cradle of life in the known universe is brought home to us. And the more conscious we are of that fact, the better.
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It was an amazing day when my "Greatest Generation" farming grandfather bough, *gasp* a DATSUN pickup!
Nowadays I guess it's "Case IH," which just isn't the same at all.
My dad worked for IH back in the 50s and 60s in Conrad. We moved there from Glendive and I loved it, both for the fields of wheat as far as you could see and the great mountains blue on the horizon. I found some old slides (1957 or 8)of IH equipment uin the field so I'll try and post them sometime on my blog. I loved it there; the light was incredible.
You're right about the light in that part of the world ... but there are so many things that make that Golden Triangle area evocative and beautiful. A lot of them are subtle enough that most people don't notice, though, which is really too bad.
Most of all I miss the silence. No industrial hum, just silence, enough to hear one's own heartbeat and the barley stirring in the breeze. The kind of place that moves at its own pace, where one puts down deep roots. Silence and light and the smell of dried grasses and sweet-clover, sometimes a scent of willow from the river, and lightning. Eating cactus-flower-petals out on the prairie, playing frisbee with old dried up cow-patties, watching the sun go down behind an impossibly green wheat-field, dreaming in the cottonwoods by a river...Friends from other places couldn't understand the subtlety of silence and openness. They thought it was boring and flat. God, I miss it.


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Q: Login Screen blinks with Toast I created one login screen but before login screen to appear I wanted a image to flash on the screen. For this I use Toast.
But the problem is before flashing the Image Login screen appears for a while and the image flashes after that again Login Screen appears. I wants to flash the image first before any thing appears in the screen. Here is my code :
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    ImageView iv = new ImageView(this);
    iv.setImageDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.start));

    Toast t = new Toast(this);
    t.setView(iv);
    t.show();
    t.setDuration(5);

Thanks
Deepak

A: You Need to use Handler Class To Hold the present LoginWindow  for few seconds , Handler Class Provides A method which can be used display image before the screens is displayed,
if is not possible with Handler method then please make use of Activity LifeCycle Methods like OnStart() etc there are lot activity methods u can use
Here is some useful code to u..
private Handler handler;
private final static String DEBUG_TAG = "splashScreen";

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    Log.i(DEBUG_TAG, "onCreate executes ...");
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.splashscr);
    handler = new Handler();

}

public void onResume()
{ Log.i(DEBUG_TAG, "onResume executes ...");
handler.postDelayed(new Runnable()
{

    public void run()
    {
        Intent myIntent= new Intent(SplashScreen.this,TabCls.class);
        startActivity(myIntent);
    }
}, 1000);

super.onResume();
}

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Current: Title Holders & Affiliates
Adjuncts and Affiliates
Professor Elleke Boehmer
Elleke Boehmer is the Professor of World Literature in English, in the English Faculty at the University of Oxford. Her books include Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (1995, 2005), the biography Nelson Mandela (2008), Stories of Women (2005), Indian Arrivals 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire (2015), and Postcolonial Poetics: 21st century critical readings (2018). Indian Arrivals won the 2016 biennial ESSE Prize. She is the author of five novels, including The Shouting in the Dark (2015) and Screens again the Sky (short-listed David Hyam Prize, 1990). Her second short-story collection To the volcano, and other stories was published in 2019, as was the Australian edition of The Shouting in the Dark and other southern writing (UWA Press). She edited the British best-seller Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys (2004), and the anthology Empire Writing (1998), and has co-edited several books, including J.M. Coetzee in Writing and Theory (2009). She is Director of the Oxford Centre for Life Writing at Wolfson College, and the General Editor of the Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures Series.
Professor Paul Carter
Paul Carter is a historian, writer, philosopher and artist. He is Creative Director of Material Thinking at RMIT University, Melbourne. He also holds honorary professorships at the University of Melbourne and the University of Queensland. In 2006 he was George Simpson Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh.
Paul collaborates with graphic artists, performers, architects and landscape designers and has received many national and state awards.
He has authored a number of books mainly concerned with Australian history, Australian places and their identity. He has been involved with the design of some notable contemporary public spaces in Australia. In collaboration with Lab Architecture Studio he conceived and developed the design for the 'Nearamnew', the elaborate surface treatment of the public plaza at Federation Square in Melbourne. In addition to Nearamnew, his most notable public artworks include Named In The Margin (Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney, 1990) and Relay (Sydney 2000 Olympics, with Ruark Lewis). Paul's research focuses on the poetics of place-making, public space design and the application of creative research to community renewal, strategic planning and policy formation.
Professor Andrew Gibson
Andrew Gibson
Andrew Gibson was born in London and educated at Truro Cathedral School, Lord Williams's Grammar School, Thame and St. John's College, Oxford, where he took a first class degree with honours in English Language and Literature and subsequently pursued his research. His first appointment was as Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. In 1977 he returned to the UK as Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway College, University of London and has remained there since, his final and most distinguished appointment being as Research Professor in Modern Literature and Theory. He has lectured and taught in dozens of universities around the world, notably Northwestern University in Chicago, where in 2005 he was Carole and Gordon Segal Professor of Irish Literature, and the University of Tokyo, Japan's premier university, where in 2002 he was Visiting Professor in English. His many books include Joyce's Revenge: History, Politics and Aesthetics in `Ulysses' (Oxford, 2002), Badiou and Beckett: The Pathos of Intermittency (Oxford, 2006), Intermittency: The Concept of Historical Reason in Contemporary French Philosophy (Edinburgh, 2012), Misanthropy: The Critique of Humanity (Bloomsbury, 2017) and the forthcoming Modernity and the Political Fix (Bloomsbury, 2019).
Professor Kurt Heinzelman
Kurt Heinzelman is Founding Co-Editor of The Poetry Miscellany and is currently the Advisory Editor of Bat City Review. He has been publishing poetry for thirty years in such journals as Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Georgia Review, Massachusetts Review, Marlboro Review, and Southwest Review.
His scholarship, which has won various awards, is in the fields of British Romanticism and economic and cultural history. He is Editor-in-Chief of Texas Studies in Literature and Language. He teaches in the Department of English and the Michener Centre for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. Kurt's research interests are: British Romanticism 1750-1850; poetry and poetics; creative writing; archives and collecting; modernism and cultural economics.
Professor Susan Sage Heinzelman
Susan Sage Heinzelman is Director, Center for Women's and Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Her most recent book is Riding the Black Ram: Law, Literature, and Gender. The Cultural Lives of the Law, Series editor: Austin Sarat. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010.
Recent work includes 'Teaching Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature: The Adventures of Rivella (1714) by Delarivier Manley (1672-1724)' and 'Imagining the Law: The Novel.' Law and the Humanities: An Introduction. Eds. Austin Sarat, Matthew Anderson, and Catherine O. Frank. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Professor Stephen Muecke
Stephen Muecke is Professor of Creative Writing in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University, South Australia, and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has been a visiting professor at the Freie Universität, Berlin and at Paris XIII. He is a writer specialising in cross-generic work; a recent publication is The Mother's Day Protest and Other Fictocritical Essays (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2016). He also works on cultural theory, with a special edition of New Literary History ("Recomposing the Humanities—with Bruno Latour"), 2016. He has a long record of work with Indigenous people (a new edition of Paddy Roe's Gularabulu: Stories from the West Kimberley appeared with UWA Publishing, 2016), and current research involves ethnographic documentation of Goolarabooloo county north of Broome, Western Australia, using a "multirealist" approach.
Associate Professor Michael Halliwell
Michael Halliwell is currently Associate Professor of Vocal and Opera Studies at the University of Sydney. He studied music and literature at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He was awarded two scholarships to study at the London Opera Centre and with Otakar Kraus, as well as with Tito Gobbi in Florence. He was principal baritone for many years with the Netherlands Opera, the Nürnberg Municipal Opera and the Hamburg State Opera; and he sang in many European cities including London, Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt, Brussels, Paris and Moscow. He took part in several world premieres and appeared frequently at major European festivals in opera, oratorio and song recitals. He has sung over fifty major operatic roles, including Don Giovanni, Papageno, Count Almaviva, Gugliemo, Posa, Germont, Gianni Schicci, Ford and Escamillo.
Associate Professor Claire Roberts
Claire Roberts is an historian of Chinese art and a curator. She was a Coordinate Research Scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University (2011); Research Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute For Advanced Study and Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Institute for Chinese Studies, Harvard University (2009-2010); Research Fellow with Geremie R. Barme's Federation Fellowship project at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University (2006-2009); Senior Curator of Asian Arts at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney (1988-2010; and Curator at the Museum of Chinese-Australian History, Melbourne (1986-1988).
Claire studied at the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute (1978-1979) and the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (1979-1981). She has a Bachelor of Arts (1983) and a Master of Arts (1987) from the University of Melbourne. Her PhD (2006), undertaken in the Research School of Pacific and Asian History at ANU, focussed on the work of scholar, art historian and modern brush-and-ink painter Huang Binhong (1865-1955). Claire has published widely on Chinese visual and material culture, and curated numerous exhibitions including Go Figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture (2012), The Great Wall of China (2006), a collaborative project with the National Museum of China, Beijing; Earth, Spirit, Fire: Korean Masterpieces of the Choson Dynasty, a collaborative project with the National Museum of Korea (2000); Evolution & Revolution: Chinese Dress 1700s to Now (1997); and Post Mao Product: New Art From China (1992) exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Queensland Art Gallery. She was curatorial adviser, Chinese art, for the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane (1993, 1996, 1999).
Modern and contemporary Chinese art and visual culture, Chinese photography and the photography of China, The photographs of Hedda Hammer Morrison, The letters of Ian Fairweather, Artistic contact and dialogue between Australia and China.
Emeritus Professor Ian Gibbins
Ian Gibbins is a widely-published and exhibited poet, video artist and electronic musician. His poetry has been short-listed for many national prizes and has been selected for several anthologies, including Best Australian Poems. He has produced four collections of poetry: Urban Biology (2012); The Microscope Project: How Things Work (2014, with artists Catherine Truman and Deb Jones); Floribunda (2015, with artist Judy Morris) and A Skeleton of Desire (2019). His videos have been shown at festivals around the world and have won or been short-listed for multiple awards. His audio and video work has been commissioned for high-profile public art programs around the Adelaide CBD. Ian has collaborated widely with artists on projects bridging art and science, culminating in several major exhibitions. Ian is on the Board of the Adelaide Festival of Ideas and actively supports the Adelaide poetry and spoken word scene, not least by building and running websites for several groups. Details of Ian's creative work can be found on his website.
Before he retired in 2014, Ian was a neuroscientist for 30 years and Professor of Anatomy for 20 of them at Flinders University, South Australia. He was internationally recognised for his research on the microscopic organisation of the nerves communicating between the spinal cord and the internal organs. He published over 120 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters garnering around 5000 citations. Along the way, he won awards for his research, teaching and curriculum development, and communicating science to the public. Ian was awarded the title of Emeritus Professor by Flinders and is still regularly invited to talk on various aspects of art and science. Most of Ian's published scientific papers can be found on the website of the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
Adjunct Professor Terence Crawford
Terence Crawford
Terence Crawford is an actor, playwright, dramaturg, teacher, theatre director, author and songwriter. He graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) as an actor in 1984, and has since achieved a Masters (Hons) from James Cook University in 2000 with a dissertation on Chekhov in an Australian cultural context, and his PhD (University of Sydney), an ethnography focused on the political, social and artistic concerns of actors in rehearsal.
Terence has acted with many of Australia's major theatre companies, and, since returning to Australia in 2008, has been a leading player for the State Theatre Company of South Australia, appearing as Albany in King Lear (2009), Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (2010), Judge Brack in Hedda Gabler (2013), Dr Dorn in The Seagull, and in 2017 in the nationally touring production of Orwell's 1984. Terence is a ministerially-appointed member of the Board of Governors of STCSA.
As a playwright, Terence has had work produced by Griffin Theatre Company, New Theatre, Theatre of Image and Sydney Theatre Company, as well as many smaller companies, and has had work produced on radio and television. His plays include Shondelle the Tiger, Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke, and the verse comedy hit, Love's Triumph. Among his radio plays is Seminary Songs, with original songs by Terence and his song-writing partner of 37 years, Richard Davies. Their songs also appear in the 2017 award-winning Adelaide Fringe production, One Night with Bonnie Weaver.
Terence is among Australia's most esteemed and experienced acting teachers. He has held Head of Acting positions at Theatre Nepean (University of Western Sydney), Theatre Training and Research Programme, Singapore, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, and Adelaide College of the Arts, and has directed at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), and been a guest at L'ecole internationale de theatre Jacques Lecoq, Paris. He has published two books on acting, along with the publication of reviews and short fiction.
As well as teaching acting, Terence has taught play-writing, dramaturgy, and directing at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. A director of more than 20 productions, Terence has a particularly strong interest and history in Shakespeare, having directed twelve of his works.
Terence recently published the referred articles:
"Feudal Positions and the Pathology of Contentment". In About Performance 13: The Lives of Actors. 2015.
"The Castanet Club: History, Provenance and Influence". In Australasian Drama Studies, April 2015.
Along with publication potentials beyond the completion of his PhD, Terence is pursuing research toward articles on the changing historical profile of Australian playwrights.
Ethnography of theatre-related work; adaptation and translation theories, practices and politics; Chekhov; Shakespeare; multi-lingual theatre; adaptation of extant literature into song; singing and acoustic music in theatrical space.
Adjunct Professor Robyn Ferrell
Dr Robyn Ferrell is Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Law Arts and Humanities at the Australian National University and also in Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney.
She has written several books of philosophy and creative nonfiction; her most recent, Free Stuff: freedom and commodity in the internet age is forthcoming with Lexington Books (US). Sacred Exchanges: Images in Global Context, on contemporary Aboriginal painting, was published by Columbia University Press in 2012. Her 2004 book of creative nonfiction The Real Desire was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Award. She regularly writes articles and reviews for both mainstream and academic publications.
Adjunct Professor Steve Vizard
Steve Vizard is a Gold Logie and multi award winning writer, performer, producer, broadcaster and lawyer. After studying Law and Philosophy at University of Melbourne, where Steve and his mates established the University Law Revue, Steve became a partner in a city law firm. While practicing international law, Steve wrote extensively for theatre and television, including co-writing his first feature film screenplay, The Bit Part, starring Nicole Kidman, for which he was nominated for a Writers Guild Award. With Andrew Knight, Steve founded and was Chairman of Artist Services, one of Australia's largest independent film and television production houses, producing several series of SeaChange, the ABC's highest rating drama series. As a producer and creator, Steve's shows have received more than twenty Logies, a dozen AFI and Television Society Awards, and an International Emmy nomination. As a performer, he has been nominated for a Gold Logie four times, taking one home in 1991, and has won several Logies, Television Society Awards, four Australian Writers Guild Awards and a Variety Club Award. As a radio host, Steve has worked across several networks including Macquarie Radio, for whom he hosted his own morning radio, and has received 3 nominations at the Australian Commercial Radio Awards including Best Talk Presenter in Australia. Steve also starred in the Tropfest winning film, Granny Smith. Steve has written and edited several books including Two Weeks in Lilliput, a bestselling account of the Constitutional Convention, which became a nominated text on the HSC English syllabus.
Dr Shannon Burns
Dr Shannon Burns is a writer, reviewer, sometimes-lecturer in English and Creative Writing and sometimes-tutor in European Studies at the University of Adelaide.
Dr Fran Bryson
Frances (Fran) Bryson (PhD: University of Adelaide) is a travel/memoir writer whose primary research interests revolve around the uniqueness of people and place. In Brazil, her first book, was published by Scribe Publications in Australia & UK in 2016, translated into Turkish (pub. Siyah Kitap, 2018) and long-listed for the 2017 Margaret Scott Prize for best book by a Tasmanian writer. Her current project is concerned with islands across the world examining difference, uniqueness and island-life. On Islands (working title) will explore the history and psychology of smallness, specialness and isolation. Fran continues to work part-time as a literary agent, having been Managing Director one of Australia's best-known literary agencies for more than a decade before turning to writing. When not travelling, she lives on Flinders Island, largest of the Furneaux islands, in the treacherous waters of Bass Strait in South-eastern Australia. Fran Bryson was recently appointed a Visiting Research Fellow at the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice (University of Adelaide). Some of her writing can be found on her website.
Dr Michelle Cahill
Michelle Cahill is a Sydney writer. Her short story collection Letter to Pessoa won the NSW Premier's Literary Award for New Writing and was shortlisted in the Steele Rudd Queensland Literary Awards. Her honours include the Hilary Mantel International Short Story Prize, the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Prize shortlist and the Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award. Vishvarūpa was shortlisted in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. The Herring Lass, is published by Arc (UK). She was the CAL/UOW Poetry Fellow at Kingston Writing School and a Visiting Creative Writing Scholar at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. She co-edited Contemporary Asian Australian Poets and is Series Editor for Vagabond Press, deciBels3. She will be editing the Margaret River Short Story Prize Anthology 2019. She is completing postgraduate studies in Creative Writing at the University of Wollongong.
Dr Dylan Coleman
Dylan is a Kokatha (Gugatha) Aboriginal/Greek woman from the far west coast of South Australia. She is a Lecturer in Yaitya Purruna Indigenous Health Unit, School of Population Health, at the University of Adelaide. In 2011, Dylan completed her doctorate at the University of Adelaide's English Department. It explores Indigenous narrative process and its capacity to recreate stories of trauma and loss into ones of survival and liberation. In 2011, the creative component of Dylan's PhD, Mazin Grace, won the Arts Queensland David Unaipon Award for Unpublished Indigenous Manuscript, as part of the Queensland Premiers Literary Awards. In 2012 Mazin Grace was published and in 2013 was longlisted for the Stella Prize, and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize.
Her experience is in community engagement within various Indigenous communities throughout Australia, and in South Australia in the area of public health, with a focus on substance misuse and building community capacity and resilience through community controlled approaches to health.
Dylan's research interests are: Indigenous community engagement; social determinants of Indigenous health; equitable and accountable frameworks in health policy development and delivery; intersections between creative media and psychological trauma recovery; King William IV's 1836 Letters Patent: founding document of South Australia (with enshrined native title rights), Aboriginal sovereignty and approaches to Aboriginal self-government.
Dr Gillian Dooley
Dr Gillian Dooley is a librarian, a writer, a musician and an editor. She is Special Collections Librarian and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in English at Flinders University. Her research interests are: life and writings of Matthew Flinders; music in Jane Austen's life and work; Doris Lessing; V.S. Naipaul; Iris Murdoch; J.M. Coetzee; contemporary Australian literature.
Her publications include Matthew Flinders Private Journal 1803-1814, coedited with Anthony J. Brown; From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction: Interviews with Iris Murdoch; critical monographs on V.S. Naipaul and J.M. Coetzee; articles on writers from Jane Austen to Doris Lessing; and hundreds of book reviews. She is the founding editor of the electronic journal Transnational Literature.
Gillian has an abiding interest in the blending of her two principal passions, words and music, and she has researched and presented several musical programs and talks on literary-musical topics, mainly related to Jane Austen's music collections. Current projects include establishing Writers in Conversation, a new international electronic journal devoted to interviews with writers, and editing the correspondence between Iris Murdoch and Brian Medlin for publication.
Dr Kerryn Goldsworthy
Dr. Kerryn Goldsworthy is an Australian freelance writer and former academic. She has a B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Adelaide. She taught at the University of Melbourne from 1981 to 1997 as a tutor and lecturer and has also worked briefly at Deakin, Flinders and Adelaide Universities, and at the University of Klagenfurt, in Austria. She was the editor of the Australian Book Review (May 1986 to Dec 1987), decades later she claimed that the experience involved her "learning more about human nature in those two years than in either the preceding thirty-three or the following nineteen."
Goldsworthy also served as a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council and has also been the recipient of Australia Council grants allocated from its Literature Fund.
In 1997, Kerryn Goldsworthy returned to Adelaide and turned to freelance writing. She was a judge of the prestigious Miles Franklin Award for a year, until she resigned, along with two other judges, over a charter that changed the decision-making powers of the judges. She has also served as a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide where she is a guest teacher in the Graduate Certificate course in Food Writing. She also writes for a number of weblogs. Goldsworthy's political views are left-wing. She once described herself as "an old fashioned feminist." In 2013 Goldsworthy was awarded the Pascall Prize 'Australian Critic of the Year', Australia's major national award for criticism.
Dr Lisa Harms
Lisa Harms is an artist, curator and writer whose work explores the function of textual, archival, online and material fragments in triggering memories, thoughts and feelings; in other words, her projects examine the 'after-life' of images. Her writing is interwoven with artistic and curatorial activities, staging interplays—virtual 'conversations'—between philosophy, poetry, and politics that circle around the aporetic tensions of a lingering, (un)settled, specifically Australian post-colonial imaginary. Her projects address the notion of the domestic in relation to wider 'domestic' concerns: the poetics and the politics of postcolonial social and cultural relations; environmental care and consequence. The folding of private and public 'domesticities' into one another in her work effects a series of 'turns'—like movements in a restless sleep— that propose "… a different kind of political ecology, where the 'cosmos' becomes a landscape for thinking and feeling—outside of individual ways of seeing the world, and in the potential for connecting with others" (Isabelle Stengers, in Hope: New Philosophies for Change, edited by Mary Zournazi, Annandale: Pluto Press Australia, 2002, 261).
Lisa has curated numerous exhibitions, including Crystal Palace (in partnership with Flinders University Art Museum), conversations in ellipses (SASA Gallery, FELTspace Gallery, Adelaide Botanic Garden), little weeds: small acts of tenderness & violence (Peel St, Seedling Art Space, Hawthorndene & Adelaide Botanic Garden) and after the goldrush (SASA Gallery). Her artwork has been exhibited in numerous solo and collective exhibitions in galleries around Adelaide and as site-specific installation projects.
Dr Rita Horanyi
Rita Horanyi is an emerging literary critic with an interest in literary modernism and modernity, theories of affect and melancholia, translation studies and Central/Eastern European culture, literature and history. She holds a PhD on melancholia in Hungarian literature and film under state socialism and was a recipient of the Copyright Agency/Sydney Review of Books emerging critics fellowship.
Dr Eva Hornung
Eva Hornung is a writer of literary fiction and non-fiction. Her latest novel Dog Boy was published worldwide in 16 languages and won the Prime Ministers Literary Award, Australia, and the Stora Ljudbokspriset, Sweden. She published her earlier fiction under the name of Eva Sallis.
Eva Hornung is currently researching for a novel set in an isolated farming community around 1900, a fiction exploring selfhood, belonging and divergent religious beliefs.
Dr Carol Lefevre
Carol Lefevre holds both an MA and PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide. She has published two novels and one work of non-fiction. Nights in the Asylum, Picador (UK) and Vintage (Australia) was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, won the 2008 Nita B. Kibble Award for Women Writers and the People's Choice Award. If You Were Mine was published by Vintage in 2008. Quiet City: Walking in West Terrace Cemetery was published by Wakefield Press in 2016.
Lefevre has been an invited speaker at Sydney Writers' Festival and Adelaide Writers' Week. Other publications include short fiction, journalism, and non-fiction, including a personal essay in the anthology Family Wanted: adoption stories, edited by Sara Holloway, which was published in the UK by Granta and in the USA by Random House. She is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide the recipient of the 2016 Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship at the Festival Awards for Literature.
Her research interests include travel writing and creative non-fiction.
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Dr Amy Matthews
Amy T. Matthews is a novelist and has published short stories in collections including Best Australian Stories, and been long-listed for the Australian/Vogel literary award. She has co-edited two anthologies of short stories and poetry and was the winner of the 2010 Adelaide Festival Unpublished Manuscript Award for her novel End of the Night Girl, which was published by Wakefield Press in 2011. End of the Night Girl was shortlisted for the 2012 Dobbie Literary Award and the 2012 Colin Roderick Award.
Amy T. Matthews' research is currently focussed on representations of place, and how the familiar can be rendered mythic. She is particularly interested in the way Australian fiction tends towards Realism, and the lack of genre fiction set in Australian cities. Through her writing she explores generic conventions, genre mashing, and transforming familiar Australian places (particularly Adelaide and its surrounds) into imaginative spaces, capable of containing magic.
Her latest work, Navigating the Kingdom of Night, a mix of memoir and critical essay, was published by the University of Adelaide Press in 2013.
Dr Rachael Mead
Dr Rachael Mead is a poet, exhibiting photographer and experienced multi-media collaborator. Her primary areas of interest involve the theory and practice of ecopoetics and literary provocation of empathy for non-human life. She is currently undertaking new work and research into both ecopoetic representations of space and place in Antarctica and the issues of writing place in Australian landscapes haunted by the dispossession of indigenous custodians. Her other ongoing creative work includes a collection of short stories exploring the compounding effects of trauma on paramedics in South Australia and a photographic series capturing the textures of local ecology at both landscape and macro-level.
Dr Gabriella Smart
Pianist Dr Gabriella Smart is a leading advocate of new music in Australia - through performance, improvisation, education, collaborative composition, commissioning and curation. In 2018, she is a recipient of the prestigious Prelude Composer Residency in Australia and a UNESCO City of Music residency in Katowice, Poland. Gabriella received a Churchill Fellowship in 2010, and a Helpmann Award in 2009. As an improviser she has collaborated and performed with such luminaries as Lisa Gerrard, Brian Ritchie, Alvin Curran, Cat Hope, and Derek Pascoe and Johannes Sistermanns (Blue Touch Trio). With a background as a multi-award winning pianist specialising in classical and new music, Gabriella has performed extensively in Australia and internationally, premiering over forty new works for solo piano by Australian and international composers in Australia, Europe and China. Her performance of Alvin Curran's For Cornelius on 9/8/17 was described as 'meltingly beautiful' and 'mesmerising' (Graham Strahle from The Australian). She has performed widely as a soloist throughout Australia, and internationally, promoting the works of Australian composers. Gabriella has performed in the Melbourne and Adelaide International Festivals, MONA MOFO, TURA (Perth) and in Europe and China. In 2010 she represented Australia at the World Expo in Shanghai. Gabriella regularly gives numerous live and recorded broadcasts for ABC Classic FM.
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Dr Heather Taylor Johnson
Heather Taylor Johnson is the author of two novels and four books of poetry, Meanwhile, the Oak (Five Islands Press) being her latest. She conceived and edited the anthology Shaping the Fractured Self: Poetry of Chronic Illness and Pain (UWAP), which won the 2018 Avant-garde Award for an anthology. She was the 2018 winner of the Griffith Review Novella Prize, has been shortlisted for the Newcastle Poetry Prize, and was published in Best Australian Poems 2017. From 2013-2017 she was Poetry Editor of Transnational Literature and, before that, for Wet Ink magazine. She's thrilled to be returning to the University of Adelaide, where she received her PhD in Creative Writing in 2007.
Dr Carrie Tiffany
Carrie Tiffany was born in West Yorkshire and grew up in Western Australia. She spent her early twenties working as a park ranger in Central Australia and now lives in Melbourne where she works as an agricultural journalist.
Her first novel, Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living (2006) was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the Orange Prize for Fiction (UK), the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, the Guardian First Book Award (UK) and was the winner of the Western Australian Premier's Fiction Prize and the Dobbie Award.
Her second novel, Mateship with Birds (2012) was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Fiction Prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Melbourne Prize for Fiction. In 2013 Mateship with Birds was the winner of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the inaugural Stella Prize.
Dr Christopher Williams
Dr Christopher Williams, photo credit: Guildhouse.
Christopher is a sound artist and composer working with text-sound composition, soundscape composition, sound installation, and electro-acoustic music. He was an Audio Arts producer at the ABC (1989-2013). Christopher completed his PhD in sound art in 2019, and is a member of both the Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology and the J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Research. He is a Soundstream New Music Composer (2019-2020). Christopher has presented works at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin; ZKM: Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsrühe; Studio für elektroakustische Musik, Weimar; Samstag Museum of Art; National Gallery of Victoria; Praxis Artspace, Greenaway Art Gallery, and the Elder Conservatorium of Music. Many of his works have been featured on ABC Radio National and Classic FM.
http://christopherwilliams.com.au/
Dr Sean Williams
Sean Williams is the author of forty novels, eighty short stories and the occasional poem. He writes for adults, young adults and children. His work has won awards, debuted at #1 on the New York Times hardback bestseller list, and been translated into numerous languages.
His latest series are Troubletwisters, co-written with Garth Nix, and Twinmaker. Crashland and Hollowgirl are currently in press. A member of the Adelaide Writers' Week Advisory Committee, Sean has also served as a peer assessor for the Literature Board of the Australia Council and on the boards of The Big Book Club Inc, the Australian Society of Authors and the premier international body representing speculative fiction writers, SFWA. He is one of three life members honoured in its history by the SA Writers' Centre, and the only one still living in South Australia.
Sean's research focuses on the matter transmitter ("Beam me up, Scotty."), a key but overlooked trope of science fiction.
Dr Annette Willis
Prior to taking up photography in 2002 Annette was a teacher, academic, research analyst and journalist. She has had ten solo exhibitions at galleries around Australia and has had work shown in London and New York. Annette explores issues and themes through narrative photo essays featuring images that are deliberate lyrical abstractions.
Her photographic style is defined by striking, closely cropped compositions. Her early work focused on industrial heritage and the ephemeral: street art and street artists, Cockatoo Island, cemeteries, the odd things that turned up in the streets and crevices of local neighbourhoods, as well as nature images. Her photography has gained finalist places and Honorable Mentions in international photography awards including the Black & White Spider Awards (2007, 2008), the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women in Photography (2011), Prix de la Photographie (PX3) 2012, International Loupe Awards (2013) and the US Color Masters Cup (2013).
Since 2006 Annette has added portraiture to her visual storytelling. She has been a finalist in many national and international portraiture prizes including Head On, Olive Cotton, the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize, Sydney Life: Art and About and the London Photographic Association Portraiture Prize, Let's Face It. In 2006 she won the Wollongong Portraiture Prize.
Annette's research is focussed on the dichotomous relationship between the Australian landscape and human habitation. She spent two years photographing the derelict Quarantine Station at North Head in Sydney. This work was exhibited as Reimagined Topographies at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale in 2009. Her current project is a broader and deeper extrapolation of the relationship between human habitation and the landscape and has led her to explore the use of sound, music and text in collaboration with other artists. Lost Geographies sheds light on the lives and histories of the people, places and communities who live on or north of Goyder's Line in South Australia.
Mr Ken Bolton
Ken Bolton works at the Australian Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide and edits Little Esther books. A selection of his art criticism is collected in Art Writing (CACSA). He edited the magazines Magic Sam and Otis Rush, the memorial volume Homage To John Forbes and wrote the monograph on artist Michelle Nikou. He has published numerous books of poetry. Wakefield Press published The Circus in 2010 and Vagabond Press A Whistled Bit Of Bop. Puncher & Wattmann published Sly Mongoose in 2011. Shearsman Press (UK) published a new Selected Poems in 2013. Earlier titles include At The Flash And At The Baci and Untimely Meditations. Much of his collaborative writing with John Jenkins has been published. His research interests are in art theory and art history; continental philosophy and cultural studies; the innovative side of literature.
Mr Joe Chindamo
Joe Chindamo is musical polyglot in the tradition of Bernstein and Previn. He is routinely described as one of the best jazz pianists in the world, though his art transcends jazz, having composed concertos, chamber music and film music. He possesses an uncanny ability to personalise anything which enters his orbit, as is evident in his work with violinist and duo partner Zoë Black.
With twenty three CDs in his wake, many of them topping charts in Japan, countless world tours and a plethora of awards, he can comfortably take his place amongst the best jazz pianists in the world. Amongst a plethora of awards, Joe has twice won the MO award for Jazz Instrumental performer of the year, two BELL AWARDS for best album and the APRA award for best jazz composition of the year in 2009 for "Something Will Come to Light."
Ms Nicolette Fraillon
Nicolette Fraillon is a Visiting Professor at the University of Adelaide. She is Music Director and Chief Conductor for The Australian Ballet, and Artistic Director of Orchestra Victoria. Nicolette was a Partner Investigator on the 5 year ARC Linkage project, The Ballets Russes in Australia: Our Cultural Revolution.
Nicolette's research activities focus on the nexus between music and choreography, in terms of reimagining key works in the balletic canon, and in the commissioning and performance of new works that explore the impact of the dynamic between music, movement and décor on artistic narratives.
Mr Juan Garrido Salgado
Juan Garrido Salgado immigrated to Australia from Chile in 1990, fleeing the regime that burned his poetry and imprisoned and tortured him for his political activism. He has published three books of poetry, and his poems have been widely translated. He himself has translated works into Spanish from John Kinsella, Mike Ladd, Judith Beveridge, Dorothy Porter and MTC Cronin, including Cronin's Talking to Neruda's Questions (2004). He translated five Aboriginal poets for Espejo de Tierra/Earth Mirror Poetry Anthology (2008). With Steve Brock and Sergio Holas, Garrido Salgado also translated into English the trilingual Mapuche Poetry Anthology (2013).
Mr Lloyd Jones
Lloyd Jones is an award-winning fiction writer. His first collection of short stories was published in 1991, and he has also written books for children and numerous novels.
His bestselling novel Mister Pip [2006] won several illustrious prizes and awards including the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book Award and the 2007 Montana Medal for fiction. It was also shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Hand me down world [2010], a novel, was shortlisted for the 2013 International Berlin Prize. His most recent title is A History of Silence: a memoir [2013].
Lloyd Jones was awarded an honorary doctorate in literature from Victoria University of Wellington, and in 2008 Jones won the New Zealand Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement.
Ms Catherine Kenneally
Catherine Kenneally
Catherine Kenneally is a poet, novelist, arts writer and broadcaster. Her two novels are Room Temperature (2001) and Jetty Road (2009), and her sixth poetry collection was Eaten Cold (2013). She won the John Bray National Poetry Prize for Around Here (2002) and is a past winner of the Barbara Hanrahan Award. She has been Arts Producer at Radio Adelaide since 1990, producing a national books and writing program, Writers Radio, and a magazine arts program, Arts Breakfast. She has been a longtime reviewer of books in many newspapers and journals, and written widely on the visual arts. She regularly judges in several categories for the Adelaide Festival Literary Awards. She has been a guest at many national and international literary festivals. She is also the author of About Being Here (2009), a monograph on Adelaide ceramist Angela Valamanesh. She was the the inaugural CAL Writing Fellow at the Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at Adelaide University (2016).
Mr Thomas Shapcott
Thomas Shapcott was born in Ipswich, Queensland, on 21 March 1935, into a family of Scottish and Cornish descent. He was one of four brothers and also a twin, something that has featured in his poetry. After attending Ipswich Grammar School, he spent six months at a business college, and then joined his father's accountancy firm in 1951. During three months of then-compulsory national service in 1954, Shapcott began to write poetry seriously for the first time. His first published poem appeared in the Sydney Bulletin in 1956. Shapcott subsequently enrolled at the University of Queensland, completing an Accounting degree in 1961, and his Bachelor of Arts in 1967. He established his own accountancy firm in 1972, specialising in taxation advice for writers, artists and academics, which he ran until receiving a Literature Board Fellowship in 1975 and becoming a full-time writer.
Shapcott's first collection of poems, Time on Fire (1961), won the Grace Leven Poetry Prize for that year, while his fourth, A Taste of Salt Water: Poems (1967) received the Myer Award for Australian Poetry. In 1971 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to visit America, a trip which led to the autobiographical poems in Shabbytown Calendar (1975) as well as the important anthology Contemporary American and Australian Poetry (1976) . In 1973 Shapcott was appointed to the newly constituted Literature Board of the Australia Council by the Whitlam Government and served as its Director from 1983 to 1990. Later he served as the Executive Director of the National Book Council from 1991 to 1997, when he became the inaugural Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, retiring from the position in 2005 and continuing as a research affiliate thereafter.
As well as his many volumes of poetry, Shapcott has written many novels, short stories, libretti, plays and reviews. He has received numerous awards for his contribution to Australian literature, including the Canada-Australia Literary Award in 1978, the Yugoslavia Struga International Poetry Festival Golden Wreath Award, 1989, the FAW Christopher Brennan Award, 1995, the Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry, 1996, the New South Wales Premier's Special Literary Award in 1996 and the Patrick White Award in 2000. In 1989 he made an Officer of the Order of Australia; he has also received honorary Doctrates from Macquarie University and the University of Queensland.
Mr Arvo Volmer
Arvo Volmer is a Visiting Professor at the University of Adelaide's Elder Conservatorium. An internationally acclaimed orchestral conductor with a particular expertise in classical and romantic repertoire, Arvo is also Music Director of the Estonian Opera. He has for a number of years been Chief Conductor of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
Arvo's artistic praxis centres on the dynamic between recreation and reinterpretation of key works in the canon of Western art music. He is also a noted proponent of new operatic works, and in understanding the artistic process from commissioning to rehearsal, and performance to reception.
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At home with the Kiblers
By Luke Winkie published 7 June 17
Meet Hearthstone's ultimate power couple, proving you don't need salt to become streaming superstars.
Brian and Natalie Kibler are the American dream. Every day is easy. Brian, with his trademark lush hair and immaculately unwrinkled shirt, assessing another Hearthstone game he's streaming from the comfort of a leather office chair. His computer room is a shrine to good nerd living—a generational mashup of toys and grown-man concerns. The black book case behind him holds a pile of books, board games, Pop! dolls and Kibler's proud collection of Magic the Gathering trophies. To his right, there's a table covered with vitamin supplements and industrial-sized drums of whey protein powder, because of course Brian "Brian Kibler" Kibler knows how to bulk responsibly.
THE THIRD KIBLER
The Kiblers' fluffy Pomeranian mix Shiro is, without a doubt, the most famous pet in the Hearthstone community. Like Brian, Shiro is cute, comforting, and perpetually enthusiastic. He's a constant fixture in fan art, and Natalie tells me that she fully expects to be recording full-length music videos starring Shiro before long.
Occasionally Natalie wanders into frame, sometimes with a bowl of lunch or a handful of their fluffy white Pomeranian Shiro. They sit, they roast the kids in chat, they look at each other in only the way that people who have been in love for a long time look at each other, all while blindingly optimistic tropical house music plays from their speakers.
For many, the grind of streaming on Twitch must be tedious, and it generally favors the young, single, and unbound. But Brian and Natalie have found nothing but bliss in these endless broadcast hours. They are Hearthstone's first couple, and after another long stream and an episode of Better Call Saul, they jump on Skype to tell me how happy they are.
"This is something unique to Brian's personality, he gets obsessed with things. He wants to do the same thing over and over again," laughs Natalie. "This can be a blessing and a curse, but in this case it was a blessing, I have to get him to try new restaurants all the time."
"Okay, that's not..." says Brian, preparing his defense.
"I mean, I'm glad you like the same thing over and over again," says Natalie, cutting him off. "Because you married me."
Brian Kibler is an iconic Magic the Gathering player. Since his debut in the mid-'90s, he's earned $279,747 in winnings, which currently ranks him number 11 of all time. Before his Twitch career took off, Brian was earning his game design chops with credits on the mobile-first deckbuilder Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer, the pokerish Drawing Dead, and most notably, the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game—which subsequently served as the spiritual inspiration for Blizzard's work on Hearthstone.
He was content to swap his Magic career for a steady stream of off-camera, nuts-and-bolts consulting work, he was in his mid-30s, and less active competitively than ever. But after Hearthstone entered open beta, he learned that he could carve out a living by simply being Brian Kibler—the jovial, good-looking dude who CCG fans fell in love with on the Pro Tour.
"I was only vaguely aware of streaming. I had streamed Magic periodically but it was just for fun. I never considered it as a career path," he says. "But I happened to go to Blizzcon 2014 and talked to some people about streaming, and they were like 'yeah these guys get all these sponsors and make significant money' and I was like 'Oh! Well, maybe I should check this out.'"
He laughs when he wins, he laughs when he loses, he laughs when he fucks up.
A lot of great professional players aren't able to translate their technical ability into a watchable stream, but Brian Kibler never had that problem. He has a natural affability, and can effortlessly distill complicated plays into approachable language. Kibler's "brand," for the lack of a better term, is being the relentlessly nice guy. He does not rely on the latent acidity of Reynad or Kripparrian, nor does he encourage the Twitch chat carnage of Forsen or Reckful. Instead, he builds intricate, intentionally complicated decks. He laughs when he wins, he laughs when he loses, he laughs when he fucks up. Nights at the Kibler household often end with Brian and Natalie, side by side, playing more Hearthstone.
"I pretty much never get angry. I can get snarky, like when I'm streaming and people are saying something that's totally wrong I'll fall into snarky mode, but I don't get angry," says Brian.
"From the wife's perspective I can say that Brian completely internalizes any negative feelings that he has," says Natalie. "But we never fight, really. We can have disagreements, but we're both sadly very rational. We never yell at each other. We just talk about it and it's over and it's fine. Either that or he's secretly miserable because I tell him to do the dishes. But he's been doing the dishes a lot lately so I think our relationship is super good."
Kibler's success doesn't just come from his enthusiasm. Hearthstone is a lot of players' first collectible card game—the combination of polish, approachability, and Blizzard's international marketing muscle has seen the game rack up 70 million players, a lot of whom lack the kind of insight needed to compete successfully or understand the nuances and terminology familiar to hardcore fans.
In contrast, Brian is a CCG veteran. He's been playing Magic for longer than some Hearthstone pros have been alive, so his experience and perspective cuts through the daily controversies that can turn r/hearthstone into a dumpster fire. It takes a lot more than an underpowered spell to put Brian Kibler on the warpath. Earlier this year, when a brief, slightly wrongheaded drama consumed the community concerning the cost of Hearthstone packs, Kibler was one of the few who took a diplomatic, contrarian tone. Perhaps you could chalk that up to his professional obligations at Blizzard, but it's still nice to have someone willing to step outside the hivemind.
"I think a lot of the criticism that comes out in the Hearthstone community is very kneejerk-y and angry, and not really measured," he says. "I think the best example of this was the whole furor when Purify was released in Karazhan. There were dozens of threads and videos of people talking about how this showed how stupid Blizzard was and how it was this enormous mistake, and now literally dozens of top players in the playoffs right now are playing Purify Priest. While I agree that maybe it wasn't the best card to release when Priest was really weak and there weren't great uses for it, but the degree to which people's reactions were totally disproportionate was crazy."
Today, Brian is one of Blizzard's primary casters for Hearthstone tournaments around the globe—a career move that came about directly from his game knowledge and ease on camera. This suits the Kiblers well. Two months ago they enjoyed an all-expenses paid trip to the Bahamas for the HCT Winter Championship, at which Brian called many of the matches. They both enjoyed the sun.
Natalie worked as a web designer ever since she graduated college, and up until recently, her primary gig was with a corporate client that sold medical supplies. In late 2015, after their marriage, she started editing Brian's Hearthstone videos for his YouTube channel. "We wanted to start doing more video content, because it dovetailed nicely with Twitch," says Brian. By the end of 2016, Natalie put her design work on hold indefinitely to join the nascent family business. Now they upload a video every day at 8am Pacific Standard Time.
"You weren't doing that much work for [the medical company] but it was enough work that it was frustrating to you," says Brian, speaking to his wife. "So eventually it got to the point where I was just like 'why are you doing this?' (laughs) You were completely frustrated and weren't happy doing it."
"Now I just edit his videos, it's easy and fun. It's still not a full-time job by any means. I fully expect for someone to just write a program that does what I do. It would cut out the downtime" says Natalie. "Or a small child! If we have kids then I'll get my intern. And I'll go back to, I don't know, brunching all day everyday."
I guess it's weird that they know who I am, but it's also weird they know who he is.
It was during that Bahamas trip that Natalie Kibler made a special guest appearance on the channel of noted Hearthstone meme-streamer DiguisedToast.
It was drunk and silly, the kind of impromptu internet connection that materializes when a massive corporation rubber stamps a bunch of plane tickets for its game's most popular personalities.
But it was also a confirmation that Natalie—who does not stream or play professionally—is a bona fide member of the Hearthstone community. "I have a lot more social followers than I used to," she says. "I guess it's weird that they know who I am, but it's also weird that they know who he is. So I've kinda experienced his celebrity when I've stood next to him in tournament halls for Magic… I don't think I'm an internet celebrity yet."
The Kiblers are both a decade older than their colleagues. Pavel, the reigning Hearthstone world champion, is 19. Firebat is 21. Amaz, 26. But they are still living the strange life of Twitch streamers. There's an air of impermanence in this industry, like maybe eventually the universe will self-correct, the sponsorships will come crashing down, and it will no longer be possible to make serious money from playing video games in public. So perhaps Brian and Natalie ought to be an inspiration to the rest of the community; proof that it's possible to be in your '30s, married with a ridiculously cute dog, and still live a normal life live on stream. In a business where everything is unregulated, the Kiblers are a stabilizing, wholesome presence. The euphoric monotony of monogamy, as framed by the proverbial children's card game.
"This is still sufficiently new that we're still figuring out how big it can be or what it can entail. And the whole genre of games broadcasting is still growing. My interests and my expertise lend themselves particularly to card games," says Brian. "I've played games most of my adult life, and most of my not-adult life. Even when I'm done streaming, I'll be on my iPad playing Hearthstone. Sometimes there are comments in Reddit threads like 'oh his enthusiasm is so fake,' it's like if I weren't actually really into this, I wouldn't have done it as long as I have."
"We love computers. We live by the beach and we never even see it," says Natalie. "We're nerdy, this is our dream!"


A correction to this episode! The German invasion of Scandinavia really happened in April 1940, so things weren't quite as simultaneous as presented here. So, rather than invading the Low Countries the very next day, it was roughly a month later.


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November 30, 2016 December 1, 2016 by amandastiver
Short on History: Context and the Electoral Process
American, British, history
america, britain, elections, history
The recent US election has shown, among many things, that various segments of the population, but particularly younger people are missing a vital facet of education…knowledge of the past and how our written laws and systems of governance emerged from the circumstances of their era and reached up to become supra-generational universalisms (I just made that last one up). For instance, the hotly debated and debased electoral college. Some hate it, but they don't know why. Some love it, but they don't know what it is.
This is where context comes in. In the study of history (which we all should be doing, by the way) context is a short mental rehearsal of the key players, national and individual, and the geo-political or cultural spectrum of the day. Religious institutions and mores, popular societal trends, styles of government, etc. We do this when we begin to study a new historical topic. Good historians will write books interwoven with context, unfortunately, so will bad historians who make up non-existent context. One has to do a little individual research.
For instance, one popular slogan goes, "we don't need that electoral college, we just need a popular vote!" Sounds all neo-socialist, get rid of the elitists, etc, but the reality is that government structures like the electoral college were originally implemented as a check and a balance against any one side of the US government quadrangle of executive-legislative-judicial-demos (the voters) from misusing its power and presuming to take privileges that don't belong to it. This was a reaction, in part to the governmental institutions of Enlightenment Era Europe (which only went so far), and the remaining monarchies that ruled nations through both religion and dominion or kingship. The balance of power wasn't. It was also a reaction to the constitutional monarchy of England and the peculiarly interwoven parliamentary system through which aristocrats and semi-common men could rule. America sought a system with a greater balance of power.
And it is only through a kind of intergovernmental detente that our system works. Thing is, many people would like to up end the balance, from all sides of the political spectrum, in order to funnel power their way. Hence we have checks and balances, however imperfectly they function.
So there you have it, a small sampling of context and how it applies to understanding the past and the world around us now.
Where do you need to apply the tool of context for better understanding?
Keep thinking history!
– Amanda Stiver
May 11, 2010 May 13, 2010 by amandastiver
UK Election, Hung Parliaments, and History
British, General
britain, elections, history, politics, UK
Watching the electoral machinations of another country carries the detached, but comforting sentiment that, "ah well, they do have their problems, don't they!"
It makes us feel better about things back home – almost. Knowing that leadership around the world seems to be faltering on a variety of levels isn't really comforting, but it is a distraction.
This most recent election in Great Britain has been interesting to me, for its import on a national level in the UK, but also because of the situation it created, a hung parliament.
Three-for-all
Being an American, I'm still trying to wrap my head around the British Parliament and it's associated traditions and functions. A multi-party system has its share of challenges and this most recent election proves the point.
Three parties took the lion's share of the general election: the Labour party (of seated Prime Minster Gordon Brown), the Conservative party, and the Liberal- Democrat party. By vote the Conservatives won the most, but in order to create a cabinet and functioning government, a more significant surplus of votes was required for an outright Conservative win. Labour came in second, and the Liberal-Democrats third, with a much smaller percentage.
This is where it gets tricky because, suddenly, the power play is in the hands of the third party – though small, it is the deal breaker. A coalition must be formed by the first two in line or no one has the momentum to rule. Thus, the third party becomes the bride and the first two her ardent suitors.
In this case the leader of the Liberal-Democrats, Nick Clegg, decided on a coalition government under the Conservatives (ironic, as these two parties tend not to be ideologically closely related) and their leader, David Cameron. Using the analogy of American politics, this is like a Republican president peopling his cabinet, attorneys general, and other administration posts with Democrats as well as members of his own party and adding into the goals of his administration, those of his opponents. Thus, you see the complications.
Once the hashing out has been done, Queen Elizabeth invites the prime ministerial candidate with the best odds of creating a coalition government to her presence and asks him to form a government (or as we would style it, an administration). This makes it official. It is the pomp part of the equation that is at once quaint and foreign to those of us from the States.
As a result the new Prime Minister is David Cameron.
Where's the history?
That's just it; this is history. The last hung parliament was in the middle 1970's, it doesn't happen often, but when it does, it makes for a lot of drama.
"Present-vision," which is the inability to recognize an historical moment while one is in it, affects us all. We don't realize until someone tells us later that, yes, your freedoms were being rapidly erased by a government with starkly different views on social structures. Or that, yep, that war in the 1940's was a big deal!
Worse than present-vision is historical illiteracy. When people can't look at the past, get the facts, and believe what happened happened, then they, by default, ask for a repeat performance. A few charmers from my college days, "That Soviet Union thing, well, it didn't work out so well, especially if you disagreed with anybody in power," and "No, the United States did not know they were going to win the Second World War when they entered the fray, that's why they had to fight a war!"
Live in the present, but learn from the past, and look to the future!


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Exclusive: Manchester United Face Serie A Competition For £11m Arsenal Defender
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July 14th 2014, 5:35
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Roma eye Arsenal misfit as replacement for Chelsea target.Roma could be the latest club to join the running for out-of-favour Arsenal defender Thomas Vermaelen as they look for a replacement for Chelsea and Manchester City target Mehdi Benatia.
CaughtOffside understands that Arsenal have been reluctant to offload Vermaelen to a Premier League rival, and have postponed talks with Manchester United to await interest from other clubs around Europe, with the likes of Juventus, Inter Milan and Napoli also mentioned as previous suitors from Serie A.
However, Roma now look to be showing the strongest interest to sign the Belgian centre-back as Rudi Garcia faces the prospect of losing one of his most important players this summer, as the chase hots up for Moroccan stopper Benatia.
The 27-year-old was one of the best defenders in Europe last season after moving to the Stadio Olimpico from fellow Italian side Udinese, where he had also impressed, and a big move to the Premier League could be on the cards this summer.
With Manchester City looking like closing in on the signing of Eliaquim Mangala from Porto, it may be that their interest in Benatia has cooled, but Chelsea remain big fans of his and may look to sign him as they eye replacements for the departing David Luiz.
This would leave Roma short of options at the back as they look to try again to challenge for the title next season, as well as playing in the Champions League after finishing second to Juventus in 2013/14.
Vermaelen could be a good and cheap option at a price of just £11m, with the 28-year-old no longer first choice for Arsene Wenger after a poor run of form last year saw him dropped to the bench in favour of the now-successful Per Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny partnership.
His lack of first-team action at the Emirates Stadium had seen him become a top target for United as well, but the Red Devils now look set to miss out on the former Ajax man if a move to Roma can be agreed, leaving new manager Louis van Gaal to look elsewhere for players to come in and replace Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand, who left at the end of the season.
Atletico Madrid defender Miranda is also thought to be one of United's top targets, but will likely prove more expensive than Vermaelen.
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