We will have our telescopes set up for you to observe the Moon, any visible planets, and other objects of interest in the night sky. We can teach you about the constellations and how to recognise them, and answer any questions you may have about astronomy or telescopes.
Even if it's cloudy we will still be on site to answer questions, ever hopeful of a break in the clouds, but viewing may be limited. In the event of rain or severe weather, sessions will be cancelled. Please follow our Facebook and Twitter feeds for information as to whether the event will go ahead, or call the park on 01376 347134. We aim to post updates on the day, around mid-morning for solar gazing and mid-afternoon for star gazing.
This event is free but car park charges apply.
The event is suitable for all ages (children must be accompanied by an adult).
We can be found somewhere in the vicinity of the main building, near the Sky Ropes for star gazing and in the field to left of the main path for solar gazing (we have a sign pointing to where we are.
Also if you already own a telescope and need help with it, you are welcome to bring it along and we will try to assist you BUT only where possible if any of our volunteers are available – on busy nights this is not always possible.
Please note that if you do bring your own telescope, it is entirely your own responsibility and you will need to be able to carry your telescope from the public car park. We are unable to assist with transporting your equipment to the observing site.
Only NEAS members are covered by public liability insurance at our events, so please be aware of this before letting other members of the public use your telescope.
Please park in the public car park. The site is off limits to cars while the event is active, and only NEAS volunteers have the park's permission to park on site due to Health & Safety reasons.
Please keep dogs on short leads near the telescopes.
Our members may use safe laser pointers to show you things in the sky, but members of the public are not permitted to bring laser pointers to our events. If you are seen using a laser pointer you will be asked to return it to your vehicle or leave the event.
We understand that you may be using a torch to walk across the park but please keep the light shining downwards at all times. No flash photography unless you want to see grumpy astronomers.
Please see our Great Notley Event page for directions and other important information.


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Category Archives: Nigerian film
It's been over a year since I've posted on this blog (to the extent that wordpress refused to let me log in for a few days), so I have much to catch up on. Most recently an interview I did last July with playwright and screenwriter Africa Ukoh has been published by Brittle Paper. His play 54 Silhouettes is currently being performed as a one-man show at the Lagos Theatre Festival.
(Update 17 July 2019: Charles Etubiebi will also be bringing the one-man performance of 54 Silhouettes to the United Solo theatre festival in New York City on November 20, 2019, and an excerpt of the play will be performed in London as part of the Global Black Voices event at The Roundhouse Theatre on 10 August 2019.)
I first came across Africa's work when I attended the November 2013 premiere of his play 54 Silhouettes in Jos, because the blurb of his play that I saw advertised at the Alliance Francaise looked interesting. The play follows a Nigerian actor who pursues his dream of acting in Hollywood but is troubled by the increasingly more disturbing "African" roles he is asked to play. It is a smart, thoughtful, passionate play. I loved it.
Premiere performance of 54 Silhouettes in Jos, November 2013 (c) Carmen McCain
In my column in Daily Trust, I reviewed 54 Silhouettes, which in its earlier incarnation had won the 30 Nigeria House prize and had been performed as a radio play after it won the the first runner up of the 2011 BBC African performance competition. Last year, in 2018, Africa finally published the play with Parresia Press's Origami imprint.
It can be purchased at bookshops in Lagos, Abuja, and Jos, and online at sites like konga.com. Since its publication, he has adapted it into a one-man performance for actor Charles Etubiebi, who has performed it in Lagos and Brazil. In March, Taiwo Afolabi directed a staged reading of the play at the Puente Theatre in Victoria, Canada, at the Spark Festival. Currently, Charles Etubiebi is performing the play on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, April 12, 13, and 14 as part of the Lagos Film Festival at Esther's Revenge, Freedom Park, Broad Street, Lagos Island. You can purchase tickets for N3000 online at ariiyatickets.com.
PS: On each night of the performance the 5th, 15th and 25th ticket buyer will win a free copy of the play #54Silhouettes. #LagosTheatreFestival #LTF2019
A post shared by Africa Ukoh (@pensage) on Apr 12, 2019 at 4:41am PDT
Aside from 54 Silhouettes, Africa's unpublished play Token Dead White Guy was shortlisted for the 2018 BBC International Playwriting Competition.
Africa also works as a screenwriter. He co-wrote, with the director Abba Makama, the film Green White Green that premiered at Toronto Film Festival in 2016 and is currently available on Netflix. Noah Tsika calls it "a hopeful, downright energizing love letter to Nigeria's enterprising youth — to a new generation plainly capable of greatness."
The film is a youthful takedown of the prejudices that tear Nigeria apart. It mocks Nollywood, with the good-natured ribbing of a son who follows in his father's footsteps but laughs at his outdated affectations. It is a satire, but it is also filled with a restless joy and a tenderness that draws me in to watch it over and over again on homesick nights. I can't wait to see future collaborations between Makama and Ukoh.
To hear more of Africa's thoughts on 54 Silhouettes, Token Dead White Guy, Green White Green, and the current state of theatre in Nigeria, check out our conversation on Brittle Paper, follow him on Twitter or Instagram, or, even better, go see the play this weekend. If you can't get to Lagos for the performance, you can buy a copy of it online and stay tuned for future performances.
More blog posts to come.
Posted in African literature, Nigerian film, theatre
Tagged 54 Silhouettes, Africa Ukoh, Green White Green, Lagos Theatre Festival 2019, Nigerian theatre, Token Dead White Guy
It has been nearly a year since I posted on this blog, in the fevered anguish so many of us felt after the election and inauguration of America's current glorious leader. After that, I lost the heart to write and I filled my time with teaching and and social media, that succubus.
But I miss writing. I miss my column in Daily Trust. And because I have no urgent deadline, I write very little these days, at least writing for myself. I do try to eke out what academic writing I need to get the job done. But, because I am not exercising my writing muscles, what I write is creaky and awkward.
Tonight, I was looking through my photos for one such academic project. I have thousands of photos, hidden in thousands of files on my laptop. And I have often thought that I should give myself a blog assignment of posting a photo a day and to write about the memory that rushes to mind. A photo a day is probably much too ambitious, so I will merely say that I will try to post more often, and I will try to look at my photos more often, and I will let myself remember and write more often. It is 2am here, but I have determined to do this, so let's go.
So for today's photo I went back to 5 November 2011. Only a few months earlier I had moved from Kano to Jos to try to work full time on my PhD dissertation. But in late October I went back to Kano for the Goethe Institut premiere of Duniya Juyi Juyi, a film produced by the researcher Hannah Hoechner but written, directed, and acted in by almajirai. I see, via my photos, that this was also the first time I saw my friend Sa'adatu Baba Ahmed's newborn daughter, who is now a big girl of seven.
While in Kano, Kenneth Gyang, one of Nigeria's most exciting and experimental directors, got in touch with me (I believe via Nafisa) and asked if I could act a bit part as an ugly-American Pfizer researcher in his historical film Blood and Henna, which touches on the tragic 1996 Pfizer meningitis trials in Kano. I said yes. So, on my way back to Kano I detoured through Kaduna where the film was being shot. We shot the hospital scenes in a school made to look like a hospital. Here a props guy is hanging a chart of a skeleton. (More photos in my flickr album, from the first and second day of shooting)
Feeling keenly my lack of training in acting and the exaggerated American accent I had put on after years of being back in Nigeria, I actually dreaded seeing this for years. It received 6 nominations at the 2013 Africa Movie Academy Awards–the first Hausa film to be honoured as such by AMAA. I finally saw it at a screening at KABAFEST, the Kaduna Book and Arts Festival put together by Lola Shoneyin this summer, and the film blew me away. Fortunately, my part is very small, and Sadiq Sani Sadiq and Nafisa Abdullahi carry the film with their powerful understated acted. It is a quiet, moving film about the ordinary people behind the sensational headlines that make up history. It's not as experimental as Gyang's film Confusion Na Wa, but it's just as striking.
I should write more, but it is much too late, and I have more academic writing and class preparations to do to tomorrow. But let this serve as a start. I will post more.
Posted in African cinema, Hausa film, Kannywood, memoir, Nigerian film, personal, Photography
Tagged behind the scenes, blogging, Blood and Henna, Kenneth Gyang, Nafisa Abdullahi, Sadiq Sani Sadiq
The Centre for Nollywood and New Media in Africa (CiNNeMA) at Kwara State University, Malete, invites the university community and any interested guests to a special screening of the award-winning documentary film Nowhere to Run: Nigeria's Climate and Environmental Crisis to be held Thursday, 12 noon prompt, in the University Auditorium, immediately before the 2pm convocation play: Professor Femi Osofisan's Aringidin and the Night Watchmen.
The film, shot on Epic, produced by the 'Yar Adua Centre and Core Productions, Lagos, and directed by Dan McCain, is narrated and presented by Ken Saro Wiwa Jr. and features Nnimo Bassey, in addition to many other Nigerian environmental activists. It introduces some of the most pressing environmental concerns facing Nigeria today: from the link between desertification and Boko Haram, to the threat rising oceans pose to Lagos, to the connection between the devastation in the Niger Delta and global climate change.
The film is not yet available on video or public release, so please come and invite a friend, and prepare for a double feature of film and play.
Thus reads my press release to the Kwara State University community. To read the other blog posts I've written about this film, its making, and its screening schedule, see the links below:
Post on the premiere and the screening schedule
Post on the Grand Jury Prize win at the Green Me Film Festival in Lagos
To see a trailer of the film, see below:
Posted in African cinema, Nigerian film, Renewable energy
Tagged Centre for Nollywood and New Media in Africa (CiNNeMA), climate change, climate change in Nigeria, documentary film, human rights, Kwara State University, Nowhere to Run: Nigeria's Climate and Environmental Crisis
Left to right: Louis Rheeder (script), Nnimo Bassey (environmentalist featured in film), Dan McCain (director, cinematographer, editor), the organizers of the event.
So delighted to report that the film Nowhere to Run: Nigeria's Climate and Environmental Crisis has won the Grand Jury prize at the "Green Me" environmental film festival in Lagos this past weekend.
I have written previously about my work with my brother, Dan McCain, on the film.
Dan McCain with the Grand Jury Award at the Green Me film Festival in Lagos, 3 April 2016.
The Yar Adu'a Foundation sponsored the film, which was produced by Lagos-based Core Productions, directed, shot, and partially edited by my brother, and hosted by Ken Saro Wiwa Jr. Dan travelled all over Nigeria exploring environmental issues and asking if there were any links to climate change. The research and some of the early interviews were done by Chinelo Onwualu, I did a little more research, transcribed hours of interviews, conducted a few more, and cut together the first version of the script. Louis Rheeder finished and rewrote part of the script, sat with the editor, and turned it into a beautifully organized story, where everything flows together and makes sense. Ken Saro Wiwa Jr., who "hosts" and narrates the documentary ties everything together. Together with Dan's spectacular cinematography (shot on Epic), it all comes together, boom!
As I have mentioned previously, as we were working on it, "we made a point of making this a 'Nigerian' documentary, and the interviews in the documentary are all with people based in Nigeria." Some of the strongest voices in the film are those of well known environmentalists Ken Saro Wiwa Jr., and Nnimo Bassey, as well as those activists and environmentalists like Ekaette Ukobong, Michael Uwemedimo, Godknows Boladei Igali, Liza Gadsby and Peter Jenkins and others who work at the grassroots community level to make a difference. Nnimo Bassey has been an amazing advocate for the film, speaking at multiple screenings, including #COP21 in Paris. Ken Saro Wiwa has screened it at University of California, Berkeley, and other locations. Jacqueline Farris, Nnena Ogbonnaya-Orji, Marve Michael, and others at the Yar Adu'a Foundations have been working tirelessly to organize screenings in Nigeria and beyond.
Nimmo speaks #cop21 #Paris #nowheretorun
A post shared by Core Productions Ltd. (@core_productions_ltd) on Dec 14, 2015 at 2:16am PST
I was in Lagos for the first screening at the Green Me Film Festival Saturday with Dan, Louis, and Sabrina Coleman of Core Productions. We've watched it dozens of times on large screens, but it was the first time any of us had seen it in a cinema. We were all blown away. It's amazing in the cinema, the BOOM! of the cinematography and colour grading, the detail of the sound design. The audience was chattering at the beginning but suddenly everything went quiet. Later they began talking again, but they were exclamations and responses to the film. I'm looking forward to seeing at other film festivals. The organizers encouraged Dan to come back for the awards ceremony the next night. (Sadly, I hadn't known about this on time and already had plans to travel for a conference that night. I keep missing things!) To everyone's delight, the film won the Grand Jury Prize.
#NoWhereToRun wins Grand Jury Prize at 9th Green Me Film Festival in Lagos. @carmenmccain @bubusn @Health_Earth pic.twitter.com/dv8kSk6hNI
— Nnimmo (@NnimmoB) April 3, 2016
For more information about the film and the screening schedule, please see my post about the premiere (to which I have attached a calendar of screenings) or the Yar Adu'a Foundation Facebook page.
I hope this win and the attention the film is receiving will also draw more attention to the current crisis surrounding the Ekuri Forest. We had featured the Ekuri community forest in Cross River State in the film as one of the encouraging stories about what a community can do to take initiative for conserving their own environment. In the 1980s, they had refused offers from logging communities and decided to form the Ekuri Initiative to preserve their forest. The forest is one of the few remaining rain forests (crucial as a carbon sink) in Nigeria, or West Africa as a whole. According to The Daily Post, on 22nd January 2016, a
Public Notice of Revocation signed by the Commissioner for Lands and Urban Development and published in a local newspaper on 22nd January 2016 decree[ed], among other things, that:
"all rights of occupancy existing or deemed to exist on all that piece of land or parcel of land lying and situate along the Super Highway from Esighi, Bakassi Local Government Government Area to Bekwarra Local Government Area of Cross River State covering a distance of 260km approximately and having an offset of 200m on either side of the centre line of the road and further 10km after the span of the Super Highway, excluding Government Reserves and public institutions are hereby revoked for overriding public purpose absolutely".
The outrageous 10 kilometres on either side of the highway, would decimate the community forest, and, as the Rainforest Rescue petition points out, in seizing this community's ancestral lands, would render them homeless.
Although, it seems that no Environmental Impact Assessment has been done (required by law for major projects of this sort in Nigeria), in February 2016, bulldozers came to the community. While the Ekuri community protested, they have already begun to knock down trees in neighbouring communities. The Ekuri Initiative has started a website, and there is a detailed and disturbing background on the threat against the forest accompanying this Rainforest Rescue petition.
Nnimo Bassey's Mother Earth Foundation released this press release, pointing out that,
Observers think the project may be a cover for land grabbing, illegal logging and poaching and the destruction of habitats in the forests and reserves that are protected by law and preserved by custom. They question why a project of this nature would reportedly enjoy contributions from Nigerian banks without requisite preliminary surveys, plans and approvals.
The affected communities inform that "besides the fact that the proposed route was going to cause untold damage to the globally important park, it also demonstrated that the route had been selected without looking at a contour map, let alone having an engineering survey."
Nnimo Bassey protests ""We find it unacceptable that a project of this magnitude is pursued without regard to the law and in defiance of the rights of communities."
In the upcoming weeks/months I hope to publish some of the full interviews we had done for the documentary with members of the Ekuri Community. Consider signing the petition, or if you have influence with the government, exercise it to prevent this outrageous land grab. And if you have a chance to see Nowhere to Run, you will be able to see the beauty of this forest and the passion of the community members like Martin Egot and Chief Edwin Ogor for their land, before this threat.
For more on the film, see the Facebook page and the screening schedule.
For more about Core Productions, see their website, their Twitter page, and their Instagram page.
Tagged climate change, climate change in Nigeria, Dan McCain, Ekuri Forest, human rights, Nigeria's environment, Nowhere to Run: Nigeria's Climate and Environmental Crisis, Yar'Adua Centre
Nazifi Asnanic and Ali Jita on the red carpet at the Kannywood Awards 2016, 12 March 2016.
I had the privilege to attend the 2016 Kannywood Awards held at the NAF International Conference Centre in Abuja Saturday, 12 March 2016, the third incarnation of the awards organized by Sarari Klassique Merchandise and Halims Entertainment Galleria. (See my post on the 2013 awards.) I was impressed by the space, which was in a well-decorated and sophisticated auditorium. The red carpet TV presence included Rayuwa TV, Noma TV, Unity Entertainment, NTA, VOA, Voice of Nigeria and others.
on the red carpet.
I dislike taking pictures in conference settings under muddy lighting, and the flash on my camera is broken. Therefore, almost all of my photos are pretty bad. I've seen some amazing ones on Facebook taken by photographers like Sani Maikatanga. You can see more photographs at Kannywood Scene. I'll post a few here, mostly for people who asked for copies.
Director of the Kano State Censorship Board, Afakallah at the Kannywood Awards, 12 March 2016. (Quite a change from Rabo…)
The awards were MC-ed by Waziri Zuaibu of NTA, and Aisha Mohammad of the EFCC (!). Memorable moments include a tribute to the late Aisha Dan Kano; a stylishly-dressed Nafisa Abdullahi's touching speech thanking her mother after she won Best Actress for her role in Baiwar Allah, and Sadik Sani Sadik kissing the ground when he received his award for best actor in Bayan Duhu, a 20+ minute speech (I was recording) by the minister of Information, and a short and sweet speech by Professor Abdalla Uba Adamu, Vice Chancellor of the Open University, following a really fantastic little 3-4 minute documentary on the beginnings of Kannywood.
Tribute to the late Aisha Dan Kano.
I was impressed by the efforts to make this a unified Nigerian affair. Indeed the theme was "Patriotism through Entertainment." In the musical soundtrack, I heard (pre-recorded) music by Ziriums, Sani Danja, and Jeremiah Gyang (a Christian Hausa singer.) There was an opening prayer by a Muslim and Christian, and, in addition to the various ministers and representatives of governors, there were representatives from Nollywood and even of an Ijaw youths association. Emeka Ike, the president of the Actors Guild of Nigeria gave out awards and spoke out saying that the stakeholders meeting recently held in Lagos (which invited no one from Kannywood) had been "hijacked" by outside interests. In one of the musical performances, Sarkin Waka sang "Mu Zauna lafiya, we are one," and was joined on stage by many of the stars.
There were also performances by Ziriums, Abbas Sadiq, and Nura Bond.
Ziriums performs at the 2016 Kannywood Awards, 12 March 2016 (c) Carmen McCain
Ziriums performs at the Kannywood Awards, 12 March 2016. (c) Carmen McCain
Abbas Sadiq performs at the 2016 Kannywood Awards. (c) Carmen McCain
Three special awards were given at the beginning of the ceremony: The special Kannywood Merit Award, went to His royal Highness Malam Awwal Ibrahim, the Emir of Suleja; a Posthumous Life Achievement Award went to the late Tijjani Ibraheem; and another Kannywood Special Merit Award went to Malam Sunusi Shehu Daneji, a scriptwriter and magazine publisher who coined the term "Kannywood" in 1998.
Although certain moments like the (actually quite informative) speech by the Minister of Information dragged on, the audience kept themselves amused with photo taking,selfies, and wandering around chatting.
photo-taking (c) Carmen McCain
Abbas Sadiq working the aisles. (c) Carmen McCain
Filmmaker, author and publisher Ado Ahmad Gidan Dabino (c) Carmen McCain
Producer and scriptwriter Nasir Gwangwazo at the end of the night (c) Carmen McCain
The winners of the awards (alongside the other nominees) are as follows:
Hindu, produced by Garba Saleh – WON
Gwaska, produced by Falalu Dorayi
Baiwar Allah, produced by Naziru Dan Hajiya
Best Cultural Film
Na Hauwa, produced by Kabir Ali Mpeg – WON
Hindu, produced by Garba Saleh
Malam Zalimu, produced by Abba El Mustapha
Na Hauwa, produced by Kabir Ali Mpeg wins Best Cultural Film. (c) Carmen McCain
Kabir Ali Mpeg holds the award for the Best Cultural Film that he produced. (c) Carmen McCain
Ali Gumzak, for Baiwar Allah – WON
Adam Zango, for Gwaska
Ali Nuhu for Da'iman
Best Script
Yakubu M. Kumo, for Bayan Duhu – WON
Yakubu M. Kumo, for Baiwar Allah
Shafiu Dauda Giwa, for Ban Gantaba
Nafisa Abdullahi, for Baiwar Allah -WON
Jamila Nagudu, for Na Hauwa
Rahama Sadau, for Halacci
The Minister of Information presents the Best Actress Award to a teary Nafisa Abdullahi, 12 March 2016.
Sadik Sani Sadik, for Bayan Duhu -WON
Adam A. Zango, for Gwaska
Ali Nuhu, for Nasibi
Fati Shu'uma, for Basma -WON
Ladidi Fagge, for Da'iman
Fati Washa, for Hindu
Lawan Ahmad, for Da'iman – WON
Sadik Ahmad, for Nasibi
Ali Nuhu, for Rumfar Shehu
Lawan Ahmad (middle) with his award for best supporting actor in the film Da'iman (c) Carmen McCain
Sule Yahaya Bosho, for Rumfar Shehu – WON
Sule Yahaya Bosho, for Gidan Farko
Rabilu Musa (RIP), for Dangas
Haruna Talle Mai Fata, for Farmaki -WON
Adam A. Zango, for Hindu
Tanimu Akawu, for Kasata
Best Child Actor
Maryam Baba Hasin, for Basma – WON
Ahmad Ali Nuhu, for Uba da Da
Shema'u Salisu, for Anisa
At only five years of age Maryam Baba Hasin wins best Child Actor Award for her role in Basma.
Mr. D'mej, for Hindu – WON
Mr. D'mej and Ismail M. Ismail, for Gwaska
Murtala Balala, for Baiwar Allah
Best Editor
Ali Artwork, for Gwaska – WON
(no name), for Mulamat
Husseini Ibrahim, for Baiwar Allah
Ali Artwork poses with his award for best editor and me.
Muhammad Ali, for Hindu – WON
Musa Zee Moses and Muhammad Ali, for Anisa
Ali Musa Dan Jallo, for Bori
Suraj A. Ibrahim and Mustapha Auwal, for Gwaska -WON
Fahad Abubakar, for Fansa
Bello Minna and Mukhtar Dauda, for Hindu
Umar M. Sharif, for Uba da Da – WON
Umar M. Sharif and Isa Gombe, for Gwaska
Nura M. Inuwa, for Hindu
Tahir I. Tahir, for Hindu – WON
Muhammad Sani G., for Bakin Mulki
Saif A. Nuhu and Ishaq Ahmad Nuhu, for Halacci
Best Costume
Jibrin Cha, Sunusi Shamaki, and One Eye, for Hindu -WON
Umar Big Show, et al, for Gwaska
Sunusi Shamaki, for Bakin Mulki
Best Makeup
(guess which makeup artist won….? 😉 )
Alhaji Suji, for Hindu
Alhaji Suji, for Bakin Alkalami
Alhaji Suji, for Nasibi
Posted in African cinema, Hausa film, Kannywood, Nigerian film
Tagged Ali Gumzak, Dr. Ahmad Sarari, film awards, Hausa film award, Hausa movie star, Hausa movies, Hausa music, Kannywood Award, Kannywood Award 2016, Lawan Ahmad, Nafisa Abdullahi, The film Hindu
Here is the screening schedule (to the best of my knowledge) for Nowhere to Run: Nigeria's Climate and Environmental Crisis by location. Most recent date listed first with earlier screenings in descending order. Check the 'Yar Adua Centre Facebook page for more details. Scroll down for the original post about the film and its premiere:
On 3 April 2016, Nowhere to Run won the Grand Jury Prize at the Green Me Film Festival, Lagos.
On 3 July 2016, Nowhere to Run won the award for the Best Documentary Short at The African Film Festival (TAFF), Dallas.
Abuja:
7 July 2016 – One Environment Conference, Thought Pyramid Art Centre, 18 Libreville Street, Wuse II, Abuja. 2:30-4:30pm. Screening and Panel Discussion.
5 July 2016 – One Environment Conference, Thought Pyramid Art Centre, 18 Libreville Street, Wuse II, Abuja. 3:30-5pm. Screening and Panel Discussion.
6 June 2016 – 'Yar Adua Centre (in partnership with the National Gallery of the Arts) to commemorate UN World Environment Day.
22 April 2016 – Ekiti Hall, U.S. Embassy (Earth Day)
22 April 2016 – Canadian High Commission, Abuja
1 March, 2016 – Justice Development and Peace Commission, Catholic Secretariat
28 November 2015, 6pm – Institut Francaise
17 November 2015 – Green Carpet Premiere, Yar Adu'a Centre
Adamawa:
16 March 2016 – Library Auditorium, American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola (Leadership report, This Day Report)
Bauchi:
18 April 2016 – American Corner, Bauchi
Kaduna:
Between 21 March -15 April 2016 – Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
28 April 2016 – Conference Hall A, Gusau Institute, Kaduna
Kano:
18 April 2016 – American Corner, Kano
7 March, 2016 – Bayero University, Kano
Kwara:
2 June 2016 – Kwara State University, Malete, Auditorium, 12 noon (before convocation play)
Lagos:
7 June 2016 – PEFTI Film Institute, 5/7 Joy Avenue, By UBA Bank, Off Isolo Way, Ajao Estate, Isolo, Lagos. 1pm
2-3 April 2016 – Green Me Film Festival, Silverbird Galleria, Victoria Island, Ahmadu Bellow Way, 5pm, Saturday and Sunday. WON Grand Jury Prize.
Ogun:
29 March 2016 – Covenant University Chapel, Ota
15-19 November 2015 – Ake Arts and Book Festival, Arts and Culture Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta
Oyo:
11 July 2016 -IFRA-Nigeria Post Cop21 Conference "Ecological Crises in Nigeria." Draper's Hall, University of Ibadan, 12 noon.
21 April 2016 – American Corner, Ibadan
Plateau:
28 June 2016 – American Corner, Jos, 11 Murtala Mohammad Way (UniJos Consultancy Building) 10am prompt. RSVP: 0803-718-4414.
2 April 2016 – RURCON Conference Hall, Nigerian Bible Translation Trust
27 March 2016 – Miango Rest Home, Miango
Rivers:
28 April – Alliance Francaise, Port Harcourt, 12 noon
9-12 December 2015 – Africa Pavilian, COP21, Paris
11 February 2016 – Blum Centre for Developing Economies, University of California, Berkeley
22 February 2017 – Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA. Adams 216, 7pm
31 August 2016- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs sponsor a screening to be held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 5pm check in, 5:30 film screening, 6:30pm Conversation with Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr., Jackie Farris, and Kole Shettima, 7pm reception. To attend sign up online.
8 July 2016 – Rodo African Cuisine, Linden, New Jersey. The film will screen at Rodo African Cuisine, 1600 East Saint Georges Avenue, Linden, New Jersey, Friday, 8 July, 8-10pm. Free Entry. For more information, call 347-200-2509.
2 July 2016 – The African Film Festival (TAFF), Dallas. Nowhere to Run will screen at the Angelika Film centre, Dallas, Theatre A, on Saturday, 2 July around 8:45pm. The VOA article on TAFF featured Nowhere to Run. To buy a ticket and vote on the trailer, see this site. On 3 July, Nowhere to Run won the TAFF award for best documentary short.
7 July 2016 – Nigerian Embassy, Washington DC.Nowhere to Run will screen at the the Nigerian Embassy, 3519 International Ct. NW, Washington, DC 20008, Thursday, 5 July, 6pm. To RSVP please respond at this link.
6 July 2016 – John Hopkins University in partnership with American University, Washington DC. Nowhere to Run will screen at John Hopkins University-SAIS, 1619 Masssachusetts Avenue, NW, Rome-806, Washington, DC 20036. 5-7pm. Please RSVP to African Studies, saisafrica (at) jhu.edu or 202-663-5676
6 July 2016 – International Republican Institute, 1225 Eye Street NW, Suite 800, Washington DC, will screen the film at 2-4pm. To register for the event, click here.
Original Post:
At 6pm in Abuja at the Yar'Adua Centre today, 17 November, there will be a "green carpet" premiere of the documentary film Nowhere to Run: Nigeria's Climate and Environmental crisis. Watch the trailer here:
The film was sponsored by the Shehu Musa Yar'Adua Foundation, narrated by Ken Saro Wiwa Jr., and directed (shot, partially edited, etc) by my brother Dan McCain, who is the Managing Director of the Lagos-based Core Productions. I have also worked with Dan last year and this year on the project and came up with the first part of the title "nowhere to run," which is a sentiment we heard over and over again in the interviews of people who talked about the effects of environmental degradation on their communities. Dan and his production team travelled all over Nigeria gathering stories about the environmental devastation in Nigeria and interviews with Nigeria-based experts and professionals such as Nnimmo Bassey, Ken Wiwa, Liza Gadsby and Peter Jenkins, Muhammad Kabir Isa, Paul Adeogun, Hannah Kabir, Saleh B. Momale, Michael Egbebike, Fatima Akilu, Joseph Hurst Croft, Alagoa Morris, Inemo Samiama, Ekaette Ukobong, Michael Uwemedimo, Godknows Boladei Igali, and others. What we came to find over the process of making the documentary is that as climate change creates global changes in the environment, many of the natural defense mechanisms that could alleviate some of the harm done by the changing environment are being destroyed through human activity.
For example, flaring is a major contributor of greenhouse gases that are contributing to global warming. Although flaring is illegal in Nigeria, oil companies continue to flare because the fines are lower than the cost of capping off the flares and redirecting the gas (and if the gas were captured, it could do a lot to contribute to Nigeria's massive need for electricity). The mangroves and rain forests that absorb the greenhouse gases that cause global warming are being destroyed through oil pollution, logging and construction. These same mangroves and wetlands could also help absorb and manage the sea level rise that is occurring as polar ice caps melt, and yet they are shrinking every year. So, there is ocean encroachment along the coast, massive erosion in the southeast related to heavy rains and forest clearing, and desertification in the north. Environmental crises also contribute to conflict. For example, as Mohammad Kabir Isa of Ahmadu Bello University points out in the film and in this interview, the shrinking of Lake Chad (caused both by human interventions that remove massive amounts of water for irrigation and changing rainfall patterns that no longer fill the lake as they used to) has caused massive migration into Maiduguri in the past 20 years. Once people get to Maiduguri, there were few jobs available so the social welfare provided by Boko Haram attracted members. Desertification is also pushing people further south, and the expansion of farming into migration routes formerly used by pastoralists is behind some of the conflict we are seeing between pastoralists and farmers.
This is not a simple story, but instead one of multiple diverse complications both on a global and local level that are contributing to much of the environmental and political crises in Nigeria today. We made a point of making this a "Nigerian" documentary, and the interviews in the documentary are all with people based in Nigeria.
There are some things being done to reduce dependence on oil and to better use the land, such as wind energy project in Katsina and cook stoves and ovens that reduce dependence on firewood. But much more needs to be done.
You need a ticket to get into the premiere, but you can get them for free at this link. Unfortunately, because of a family emergency, I am unable to be there, but I hope it goes well and does some work to raise awareness among those who have the power to make the kinds of infrastructural changes in Nigeria that are needed to reduce the pressure on Nigeria's environment. Another reason to go is to see my brother's gorgeous cinematography, which captures the environmental devastation in Nigeria as well as the great beauty that still remains. If you miss the premiere, the Yar'Adua Centre is planning to sponsor a series of screenings around the country, and I will try to post updates here.
Some Core Productions images taken during the shooting for the documentary:
Some images from our latest shoot at Makoko wood market. #Documentary #filmmaking pic.twitter.com/PCg0dyxU0Z
— Core Productions Ltd (@CoreP_NG) September 21, 2015
From our archives #farming #photography #Documentary pic.twitter.com/SpLOg7dxt7
— Core Productions Ltd (@CoreP_NG) August 26, 2015
Today's shoot? Nnaka Erosion #Anambra #Nigeria #Production pic.twitter.com/ryL1kg0Zv3
— Core Productions Ltd (@CoreP_NG) May 23, 2015
Get the best images, by using the best tools. We got you covered. Check out this beautiful aerial shot from Calabar! pic.twitter.com/wpizZADeE8
— Core Productions Ltd (@CoreP_NG) July 15, 2015
From the Archives…Mountains & Hills Shot on REDEPIC pic.twitter.com/DvJZsivg73
— Core Productions Ltd (@CoreP_NG) January 19, 2015
The beauty of nature is astonishing, check out this shot from the niger-delta #photography #nigeria pic.twitter.com/Lb5BHzD4yP
— Core Productions Ltd (@CoreP_NG) August 7, 2015
Who says we don't have lovely beaches in Nigeria. Check out this sunset! #NatureIsSpeaking #photography #Nigeria pic.twitter.com/78HES5TqMk
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Tagged climate change, climate change in Nigeria, Core Productions, documentary film, Nigeria's environment, Nowhere to Run: Nigeria's Climate and Environmental Crisis, Yar'Adua Centre
Interview with Award-winning filmmaker Kenneth Gyang at the African Studies Association Conference, 2014
poster courtesy of Shadow and Act
At the African Studies Association conference in Indianapolis last November (2014), Nollywood scholar Connor Ryan asked me if I'd like to collaborate with him on an interview with filmmaker Kenneth Gyang, one of the founders of Cinema Kpatakpata. Kenneth's film Confusion Na Wa won the awards for Best film and Best Nigerian film at the 9th Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2013. (It was nominated for four)
Kenneth is a friend, whom I have known since the set of his Blood and Henna in 2011, which was also nominated for six AMAA Awards (and eventually won Best Costume Design).
Kenneth Gyang on the set of his film Blood and Henna in Kaduna, November 5, 2011. (c) Carmen McCain
At the time we interviewed him (directly before the screening), I had not yet seen Confusion Na Wa! and I really wish I had, as I would have had even more questions. It is a brilliant film that, within a fractured tragi-comic plot, captures well the kinds of daily life and conversations Nigerians have. I need to see it one more time before I write a review.
In the meantime, if you are in Nigeria, Confusion Na Wa is currently back in cinemas via Filmhouse Cinemas, which has locations in Kano, Lagos, Ibadan Calabar, Port Harcourt, and Asaba. If you are in Kano, it is playing now at 10:10am Friday through Thursday. Go see it. If you are in the U.S., Kenneth Gyang has been on a tour, and I believe Confusion Na Wa will be screening at the University of Georgia on February 28, this Saturday, although I wasn't able to find it on the UGA calender.
I didn't project my questions very well in the video interview (only Kenneth was mic-ed), so some of my contributions got cut in the editing, but I loved Connor's questions (he wrote one of the first and probably one of the best reviews of the film when it first came out in 2013) and Kenneth's answers. Here is a link to some of Kenneth's transcribed answers, and below is the video of the interview. Enjoy.
Posted in African cinema, Hausa film, Nigerian film
Tagged African Studies Association Conference, AMAA awards, Cinema Kpatakpata, Confusion Na Wa, interview, Kenneth Gyang

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Greg Emlet was not happy with his snake Atticus (as in Atticus Finch, "To Kill a Mockingbird"), so it (a Demeril's boa) was not present this day at Loose Park. Greg left him at home to sulk.
"He's shedding" Greg explained. And when that happens Atticus apparently gets a bit cantankerous.
But Greg did have with him Sir Robin (after Robin Hood), a Columbian red tail boa. Sir Robin was also shedding, but was much more docile, and by the end of the shoot, he was finished shedding and ready for his close-up.
Also in attendance was a local personality, Slutterbell The Every Fairy, aka Brie Henderson, aka director, producer, actress and writer. She and Sir Robin became fast friends. She found him "coily", warm and calm. That relaxing feeling holding a snake is one of the things that attracted Greg to the reptiles. "They calm you down" Greg said, "and make the world seem peaceful. They aren't like puppies or kittens, but they have a quiet nature." He feeds them rats, BTW.
Greg has been a snake owner since about 2005, when he encountered ones owned by friends who had them at the KC Renaissance Festival. He currently has four, and typically carries around two. He takes his snakes with him like other people take their cats or dogs.
The snakes attract lots and lots of people that Greg says he might never otherwise meet. "I have talked with people from Germany, Japan, from all over the United States. I love meeting people." He even takes Atticus car riding (when he is more sociable), draped around his neck in knot-like fashion, and takes him inside when he stops at Quick Trip. You think THAT doesn't raise some eyebrows?
I noticed in my two outings with Greg and snakes that the guys were not as interested in holding the six-foot-long reptiles, as were the gals. "Yes, that is typical" he said. "Girls and women seem to be more at ease with them. " So much for the macho man myth.


Can't stay healthy and doesn't have great hands...pass considering Howard is better.
Fournette hasn't lived up to half the hype he had so far, but he will still get a bigger deal than what Howard is being paid. I'll take Howard over him any day.
Me too. I really hope we keep Howard. He is showing more and more just how important he is to this offense.
Well now they have....I really don't want to be selfish and wish Vic doesn't get a Head Coaching job. He deserves one more than quite a few people that have been granted a position. I'm going to be rooting for him this offseason to land one.
.. and a sh** attitude to boot ! NO THANKS !!
He's made it clear that he wants to be a HC. He's already one of the highest paid coordinators.
Looks like every team with opening wants to interview Fangio. He will likely get a job.
Hope he prioritizes the here and now. NFL should say no interviews until after SB.
I love Fangio, but I'm not hiring an older defensive coach to be HC. You are just guaranteeing a new coaching search in 5 years and 2-3 OCs during that time. I want ten year offensive coaches that are willing to change and innovate with times and if they aren't I'm getting next one who will.
Writers and talking heads are going to start making this same point in unison as soon as they hear someone say else say it they respect and they take idea as their own. When they are all beating that drum owners are going to listen to it. Just a matter if they pull trigger on a hire before they hear the drum beat.
My first interview question to a defensive HC is how are you going to keep OCs here and offensive continuity? He will say that's your job. Then I will think yeah it is. I better hire an offensive head coach.
Why? He has been a pretty mediocre head coach in Miami.
I think Gase is a good OC but as a head coach meh..doesn't seem like a very likable guy from what has been coming out of his former players' mouths. I could see him and Arod butting heads a lot.
If there's any year that Fangio is going to leave to become a HC then this is it. Other than winning the ultimate prize that is the SB, we have to hope the Bears keep winning so that the chances of this happening become less as teams might not want to wait that long to hire their new HC.
If he does get offered a new position though then I'm pretty confident that the defense will end up being in good hands with a guy like Bowles as his replacement provided that Vic doesn't poach the entire defensive staff from us wherever he goes.
One decision can sink you, he made two really bad ones. He decided to build talent around Tannehill to start and thought he would have time to find a young qb when he had a ready made team. That got blown up when Tannehill got hurt and then he compounded when he brought in Cutler. Cutler is not a likeable dude and you become associated with that.
He misgaged long suffering of fan base/owner which shortens timelines.
When you go into a situation like Miami you should trade up for a rookie QB as soon as you get there. Then you usually have four years to show progress. Of course it didnt work in AZ, but that is usually how it works if you get there at same time.
If you are already there and on hot seat and they draft a QB then you are usually gone next year.
Fangio is good, but this defense has horses now to be more aggressive. A Rex Ryan type, not my choice because of his weird personality, would make things very exciting around here.
Yep. This is where I was leaning towards Pettine if Fangio went to GB. Forcing mismatches and using your blitzers to go all over the line should help wreak havoc. Now I am looking for Bowles (I prefer him over anyone else by a wide margin) to be Vic's replacement and be that aggressor. With Hicks and Goldman you have two brick walls against their OL, allowing you a ton of flexibility with what to do with the other DL and LBs. Mack can be put in a lot more favorable match ups and be harder to account for, then add in Smith and Floyd's crazy quick area burst and they can add up for numerous sacks as well.
My other question is who does Fangio poach if he leaves? Pace does not have to permit anyone to leave unless they are going for a HC gig or obviously if their contract expires. Even if Donatell was offered the DC position under Fangio, if he is under contract Pace can block the move. The Eagles did it with Flip when the Jets wanted him to be their OC. Does Pace just say no and lock him down (what I would do) or let him move on because he likes and wants to help Vic? Or is his contract up? Hell maybe Bowles has other guys he wants to come in, but given how stellar the play has been I'd imagine there wouldn't be a ton of turnover needed in the positional coaching ranks.
I think Gase can be a solid head coach but he shouldn't have been granted control over personnel decisions.
The Lions won't be keeping Jim Bob Cooter around, odd move.
With Flip getting the minny oc job I'd say that proves that was his decision not the Eagles. He didnt want that Jets job. He knew it wasn't a good situation.
His contract expired so PHI had no say when he took the job in MIN. They blocked his move for the Jets and it was well known that they did.


November 6th, 2018 - A thirty four year old London woman wanted on a warrant from St. Thomas was arrested by Toronto Transit Police yesterday morning in Toronto. TTP were dealing with the woman on an unrelated matter when they discovered she was wanted on a warrant for failing to attend court in Elgin County. The woman was taken into custody and transferred back to St. Thomas where she was held at the Colin McGregor Justice Building for a court appearance. The woman is originally charged with several break and enter and theft charges stemming from an incident back in the summer. The woman is alleged to have attended the residence of an elderly St. Thomas man in June of 2018 and pretended to be a hired cleaner. Once inside the home, the woman stole several prescriptions, jewellery and household items from the resident. Her plan was foiled when the residents granddaughter attended the residence and interrupted the theft. The woman was released on a Promise to Appear at the time of the incident.
A thirty nine year old St. Thomas woman wanted on a warrant for failing to attend court turned herself into police at the Colin McGregor Justice Building yesterday around the noon hour. The woman is alleged to have falsely reported her Ontario Works cheque as stolen to police back in March of 2018 knowing OW would issue a replacement cheque. The woman had cashed the first cheque before OW could cancel it or confirm it was cashed. Government bank records later proved the woman had cashed both cheques. She was arrested and charged with one count of Fraud and one count of Public Mischief at the time of the incident but did not show up for her court date. Teh woman was held in custody at the Colin McGregor Justice Building for court.


The Agnifera star shared screen space with superstar SRK in the superstar's 2016 release Fan. Directed by Maneesh Sharma, the film saw Mohak playing the role of Gaurav Chandna's (Shah Rukh Khan) friend, and one of his customers in the cyber café that he runs. Though Mohak played a small role in the film, he got an opportunity to share screen space with the Baadshah of Bollywood. Isn't that cool?
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Q: Is there a way to schedule a shutdown on an interval from the command line? I need to shut down a Mac every night at 10:00 pm. Does Mac have a scheduler that I should use, or should I defer to cron? I'm a Linux user, this was a question asked to me by a friend. I'd like to be able to insert the command from a terminal like I would in Linux:
crontab -e

or
(crontab -l >/dev/null 2>/dev/null && (crontab -l && echo "@reboot do-stuff") | crontab -)

What's the best option for doing something from the command line? I'm not exactly too  familiar with OSX.

A: cron is there for compatibility, but it has been superseded by launchd, which does indeed have the ability to schedule events.  You need, in your property list file, a StartCalendarInterval key with a value that is a simple a Hour/Minute pair:
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<dict>
    <key>Hour</key>
    <integer>22</integer>
    <key>Minute</key>
    <integer>00</integer>
</dict>

A: pmset is the command line utility for the system preferences energy saver schedule section.
sudo pmset repeat shutdown MTWRFSU 22:00:00

GUI at Apple menu > System Preferences... > Energy Saver > Schedule (button)

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Editor's note: This "Mondays with Martin" originally ran back in 2006. It's still important reading today.
In 1990, one of my English classes was filled with downtown, street-wise, tough high school teenagers who were one step from expulsion. All of them failed English class before, at least once, some of them several times. They did not want to be in school, and they couldn't wait to leave those classroom walls. They did not do homework for other teachers, when it was assigned, and they stared at me like they dared me to teach them anything. Half of the class was black. The rest were Caucasian, Latino, Vietnamese, and Native American, but the meanest looking and most physical was a white boy named Jack.
This group of "at-risk" juvenile delinquents was quiet, like the silence before a storm. If they misbehaved, they knew their days as students in that urban high school were over, and the street was the only thing they had waiting for them. Most of them knew what that meant: gangs, hard work, prison, and an early death from drugs. They all had friends or family in one of those places.
Jack never talked to anyone in class, including me. For all I knew, he was mute. From the first day of class in August to the week before Thanksgiving, he did not talk to anyone. He turned in enough work to maintain a passing grade, but when I asked him a question, he shrugged his shoulders and refused to reply.
He never took his eyes away from mine. Whenever I turned around, after helping another student or when I looked up from my desk, his eyes were on me. After a few days, I was leery to turn my back on him. I started doing things in class, so I always faced him. He sat in the next to last seat in the second row from the door, and I planned all my classroom activity, so I had one or two rows between us. Jack only let one student sit behind him, George, who was everyone's friend and always seemed happy. George was slow and had behavioral development issues, but he tried to read and write, even though he was four grade levels behind his peers.
Some of the girls in class had children. Carlotta was nineteen-years-old and had three. It was forbidden in school to flash gang signs, but when she wasn't paying attention to me, I could see her give a sign to another girl across the room. She was pretty and smart, and all the boys spoke to her every day, except Jack. When she spoke to him, he glared at her. After awhile, she ignored him.
Some of the boys were scarred by fights, and they never relaxed, even in class. They were always looking over their shoulders, like the worst thing that could ever happen to them was be caught off-guard or surprised, and where they came from, they were probably right.
I agonized about how to teach this unusual collection of young adults who did not fit into any group in the school. How would I get them to write essays, learn poetry, and read the standard curriculum? They didn't do those things before, so I knew I had to try something different. I threw the school's traditional way of doing things out the window, metaphorically. I decided we would write every day and keep a journal of our own work. Our writing notebooks became our textbooks, and I graded their work by the pound. In this class, the sweat that appeared from pushing a pen across the lines on the paper would earn credit. Three days a week, I would bring ideas for us to write about, and two days a week, different students would bring ideas from their personal lives for the class to write about. In effect, they would share in teaching the class. We sat in a circle, and everyone was equal.
Chemistry started to build between us. Slowly, trust crept into the room, silently and unseen. I would not let students enter class, if they didn't bring their journals every day. I brought photocopies of chapters from many classics, and we read those, often out loud. Text books scared these students, but they would read, discuss, and study anything that was photocopied. One reading I handed out that created the biggest stir from these young, angry rebels was "The Song of Hugh Glass" in A Cycle of the West by John Neihardt.
I introduced Neihardt's epic poem and talked about defeat and victory, rejection and acceptance, revenge, and forgiveness. I thought I saw Jack's lips move in response to something I said, but when I called on him, he shook his long hair that touched his shoulders and refused to speak. I knew he wanted to ask a question, but he would not verbalize it. He sat there in his long, black, leather coat, years before Columbine, and I thought, "Will I ever reach this one?" When I read his journal entry about Hugh Glass's true story, I felt a strong passion come out of his pen that started to show a different aspect of his character.
Over the next few weeks, everyone helped read Neihardt's long poem in class, except Jack. We slowly read every word, and I took my time, like I was walking beside Glass and giving a "play by play account" of this unusual, adventure experience. Outwardly, Jack gave the impression that he was too good to participate or too cool; however, his journal relayed another story. After each verse, after each page, we stopped and talked about what we read. I helped interpret many words and put the lines in a context everyone could grasp. Each time I looked up, Jack's eyes met mine.
When he turned in his notebook to me, as the others did, every Friday, I made sure to write something about his thoughts on every page. All my comments were positive. I believe in the power of positive reinforcement, and he had so much rejection in his life that I did not want to add to that long, negative list of "downers." I was surprised to find out that he was a deep thinker. No one could see what he wrote but me. I was amazed. His words were philosophical and intellectual. The sentences and paragraphs were not filled with the anger he generated with his body language and glacial stares in class. There was a good mind leaking out between the lines of his writing. Was there a heart in there, too?
Who prize the goal more dearly than the way!
And life shall find them vulnerable still.
To rise and conquer in a wind of rage.
Jack shifted in his seat and rocked back and forth. He leaned forward and squeezed his pen so hard that I thought it would snap in half. While I asked other students how they interpreted those words, Jack stood up, slowly, left the group, and went to the windows and looked outside, quietly. He stood there for twenty minutes and only left when the bell rang to end the period.
The next day he wrote about rage and anger for ten pages. There were no paragraphs, just a stream-of-consciousness writing, like Holden Caulfield on steroids. He told of the injustices he witnessed, a death in the family, depression, fear, no strong male presence at home, loneliness, all the "phonies" he met in his short life, unable to control his anger, and why his court probation was connected to fighting.
The next day, I asked the students for permission to print some of their work in a four-page pamphlet that I would bring to class and share with them. Each person would get a copy, and they could take extra ones home for their family and friends. I got a verbal acceptance from everyone in class, except Jack. When I looked at him, he simply nodded. That was the first, positive gesture he made since school began months ago.
In 1990, our school had ten, old Apple computers, and they were always in use with a waiting line of teachers hoping to use them, so I bought my own and planned to do the layout of the student writing at home for our first, little publication. I didn't mention my ideas to the class again, because I was preoccupied with learning how to turn on my new computer so it would not explode in my face, teaching myself how to run a desktop publishing program, not swearing loudly while my own children were at my desk, grading papers from school, doing lesson plans for all of my classes, getting enough sleep to stay awake in class, and staying sane.
All the students and I jerked around like we had been shot. Jack talked, and he was on his feet and walking toward the front of the room. He was 6' 4" and weighed 225 pounds. He should have been on the football field daily after school, because he was such a good athlete, but he had such a poor, grade point average, the head coach would not let him come out for the team.
Then, the tears flowed heavily. "No one ever said I had talent in school before. What do I do, now?" He hung his head and stared at the floor, as water splattered on his shoes.
As we walked down the hall and back to the classroom, several students looked out the door, trying to find where we went. When Jack and I entered the room, the other students wanted to know where we went. Jack smiled. It was now the week before Thanksgiving, and none of us had ever seen him smile in class.
After that day, there were many more class newsletters. Jack's writing was in most of them, and he was the primary inspiration who sparked that anemic, classroom pamphlet to grow into Fine Lines, now a quarterly magazine for new writers of all ages. What started as a classroom motivator to encourage marginal students to write more after they saw their work in print and read by other students, teachers, and administrators became a publication which is used today in all grade levels: elementary, middle, high school, college, and graduate school.
Jack's grades slowly began to rise. He came in to see me after school and asked for help with his homework in other classes when he needed it. He still had to check in weekly with his probation officer, but he did graduate from high school. I found out, years later, that he stayed out of jail, worked his way through a two-year community college, graduated from a small, four-year college in another state, majored in journalism, and got a job with a small newspaper in South Carolina. He moved on from there, and I do not know where he is today.
I remember the last entry of Neihardt's All Is But a Beginning: Youth Remembered, 1881-1901. An old man tells of his youthful vision quest and how he felt like a failure after experiencing the three-days and nights of fasting on a lonely hill praying and hoping Wakon Tonka would appear then provide a spiritual message as he entered manhood. The old man admitted he had no great dream to tell when he returned to the tribe.
Then, just as he had this bitter thought, a great cry came from overhead like a fearless warrior hailing his wavering comrade in the heart of battle. "Hoka-hey, brother – Hold fast, hold fast; there is more!" Looking up, he saw an eagle soaring yonder on a spread of mighty wings, and it was the eagle's voice he heard.
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If the front arms and rear trailing arms would work, it would be an awesome mod.
@Neophyte Industries A badass off-roader for sure!
@Smok-E Have you considered in doing a propper trophy truck mod? Should be "easy" to convert from Forza Motorsport, or any other idea I have that we could talk by pm.
Alright now we need a Dodge Ramcharger hoonigan edition, would smoke this chevy.
Followed instructions and vehicle not showing up.
@neophyte industries Could I get an unlocked version of this? I won't distribute it without mentioning you.


Software Security: How to Integrate Chrome and Firefox Activity to Windows 10 Timeline?
How to Integrate Chrome and Firefox Activity to Windows 10 Timeline?
do it with the help of a browser extension for both Firefox and Chrome.
via the application on every device which you want to sync.
automatically, just like Microsoft Edge does.
SoundCloud. But still, the extensions are in Beta and also free to use for the users.
developers should have to add to their browsers precedent.


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COSMOTE MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS S.A. () known as just Cosmote is the largest mobile network operator in Greece. The company is headquartered in Athens and is a fully owned subsidiary of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE), the incumbent telecommunications provider in Greece. COSMOTE has developed business operations in two other South East Europe countries through subsidiaries: Telekom Albania (now One Telecommunications) and Telekom Romania, addressing an extended market of 45 million people. In all three countries COSMOTE counts approximately 35.6 million customers.

In September 2015, the parent company OTE announced they are to adopt the COSMOTE brand as their uniform commercial brand covering fixed, broadband and mobile telephony. At this time, the company has chosen not to adopt the Deutsche Telekom brand under which name it operates in its Central and Eastern European operations.

On Monday 26 October, the new logo was launched. The Display name of COSMOTE: GR COSMOTE or C-OTE

History

COSMOTE launched commercial operations in Greece in April 1998 and reached 1 million subscribers a year later. In 2000, the company was listed in the Athens Exchange. In 2001, COSMOTE reached a customer base of 2.5 million becoming the largest mobile network operator in Greece.

In 2006, COSMOTE acquired 99% of Germanos SA from its owner Panos Germanos, a multinational chain of retail electronic goods vendors. During the same year COSMOTE was listed among the top performers in the technology industry worldwide according to BusinessWeek's Information Technology 100 rankings, being the only Greek company in the list.

In February 2007, COSMOTE launched internet broadband (ADSL) and mobile telephony services bundles for the first time in the Greek market. In November of the same year, OTE submitted a voluntary tender offer to acquire the remaining shares of COSMOTE. COSMOTE shares ceased trading on 1 April 2008, almost eight years after the company's launch in the Athens Exchange.

In 2008, COSMOTE signed an agreement with Telekom Slovenije for the transfer of 100% of the former's participation in both COSMOFON and Germanos in North Macedonia, which were later both rebranded.

In 2010, COSMOTE upgraded its network, introducing speeds up to 42.2Mbit/s downlink & 5.8Mbit/s uplink and announced LTE trials on a pilot base.

In September 2011, COSMOTE's 3G network population coverage exceeded 98%. In November of the same year COSMOTE renewed its current licence in the 900 MHz band and secured additional spectrum in the 900 & 1800 MHz bands in the auction conducted by the Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT).

In January 2012 COSMOTE launched 3rd generation services in Albania and just in April 3G population coverage reached 98%. In November, COSMOTE, first in Greece, launched commercially its 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) mobile broadband network in Athens and Thessaloniki.

In August 2013, The Globul mobile network and Germanos, subsidiaries of COSMOTE in Bulgaria, were sold to Telenor and were both later rebranded.

In September 2014, COSMOTE Romania was merged commercially with Romtelecom and rebranded adopting the Deutsche Telekom brand name, Telekom.

In July 2015, the subsidiary AMC in Albania also was rebranded and adopted the Telekom brand.

In September 2015, OTE announced the intention to unify all services under the COSMOTE brand. The company have chosen not to adopt the Telekom brand name in the Greek market.

In September 2017, the company, followed by the popularity of a series of services called Tzampa (which stands for free/cheap), had taken measures against them. Tzampa was very popular among free mobile data hack VPNs, given the thousands of downloads of its app.

Subsidiaries
One Telecommunications: COSMOTE acquired 85% of the share capital of the Albanian mobile operator AMC in 2000. In April 2009, COSMOTE raised its participation in AMC to 97.6% by acquiring a further 12.6% stake that was until then held by the Albanian State, against a cash consideration of 48.2 mil. Euro. In July 2015, AMC rebranded as Telekom Albania and fully went under German supervising. On January 16, 2019 OTE part of Deutsche Telekom agreed to sell Telekom Albania for €50 million to Vivacom Bulgaria.

Telekom Romania: In July 2005, COSMOTE acquired 70% of the Romanian operator COSMOROM which was the mobile arm of Romanian national incumbent operator Romtelecom. Later that year, COSMOROM was rebranded to COSMOTE Romania. In November 2009, COSMOTE acquired Telemobil SA (Zapp), the first CDMA 450 MHz mobile phone operator in Romania, thereby gaining access to 3G license and infrastructure in the country. In September 2014, COSMOTE Romania was merged commercially with Romtelecom, as part of a rebranding and consolidation process, into Telekom Romania.

Germanos SA: A multinational retail network for telecommunication services and products with operations in Greece and Romania, joined COSMOTE in 2006.

Sponsorships

Under its Corporate Responsibility (CR) programme, COSMOTE supports actions related to the environment, society, the marketplace, the workplace and public awareness. Actions undertaken in this context include inter alia a joint sponsorship, together with the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE), of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. COSMOTE has also initiated a Scholarship programme for university studies, awarding scholarships to high school graduates who have been admitted as first year students in higher educational institutions in Greece.

In October 2011, COSMOTE announced that will support, together with OTE, the digitisation of the libraries of the Halki seminary in Constantinople.

In 2012, OTE and COSMOTE announced the sponsorship of the exhibition "The Antikythera Shipwreck: The ship, the Treasures, the Mechanism", of the National Archaeological Museum.

Shareholding structure
The Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE) owns 100% of COSMOTE. On 14.5.2008 the Greek government and Deutsche Telekom (DT) reached an agreement regarding DT's entrance in OTE's share capital. The agreement provided that each party would have a stake of 25% + 1 share. On 3 August, DT increased its stake in OTE by 5% to 30%. In June 2011 the German Group acquired an extra 10% stake raising its participation to 40%.

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Everyone who comes do District of Lwówek Śląski, situated both In south-west part of Low Silesia and in the West Sudetes even for a short time feels enchanted by its unique character which includes, among other a differentiated landscape, uncommon natural values, tourist attractions and its rich history surrounded by unique European class relics.
The Communities create the treasure of the Province as they offer a lot of attractions and possibilities of both practicing sport and relaxations. Walking, biking and water tourist trails, thanks to which getting to know the uncommon atmosphere of the area becomes easy and available, add up to whole. The time spent here creates a challenge or an inspiration for various shows organized by particular communities.
Whoever comes to the picturesque District of Lwówek Śląski is welcomed friendliness and goodwill of the inhabitants and with an abundant output of lots of generations and he will come back here enchanted be the beauty and hospitality of the region.


South Africa acknowledges that climate change due to the variance of solar energy being absorbed by the earth's atmosphere caused by increasing greenhouse gases emission – is real, and imminent. The drastic changes of warm and cold periods will affect its rainfall and its ecosystem. "(Climate models predict that the mean air temperature over South Africa will increase with an estimated 2°C over the next century.). Plants and animals may not be able to adapt as quickly to this "rapid" climate change as humans can, and therefore the whole ecosystem is in danger." (South African Weather Service).
Either an increase or decrease in the amount of rainfall will manifest in the water resources of South Africa. The dominance of diseases will be defined by the intensity of climate change, and so with its production and harvests of maize and wheat and grazing livestock. The productivity of their forests and coastal zones and fisheries will definitely experience variable outputs. And biodiversity will likewise be affected. These are the areas that are considered to be the most sensitive to drastic global warming.
In view of all these realizations, the South African government ratified the proponent international bodies and agreement on the curtailment of gas emissions to prevent the escalating global climate change. Starting with the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change signed in Rio de Janeiro, to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the subsequent conventions that updated, aligned and/or improved the agreement that subsequently transpired in Buenos Aires, The Hague, Bonn, Marrakesh. Thus, the country recognizes and accepts its responsibility towards the Kyoto Protocol.
In such acceptance of the reality and challenges of global climate change, South Africa finds it necessary to implement appropriate and reasonable and sustainable and equally realistic measures. They have undertaken extensive studies to pinpoint how the country can meet its obligation to the Protocol and yet safeguard itself from vulnerabilities. "Further, the South African economy is vulnerable to the possible response measures implemented by developed (annex 1) countries, since the economy is highly dependent on income generated from the production, processing, export and consumption of coal. This vulnerability extends across virtually all facets of the mining and energy sectors." (A National Climate Change Response Strategy, 2004).
The Kyoto Protocol recognized the land-use, land-use change and forestry sector that will help in managing emissions of greenhouse gases. This is through increasing new plantations of trees (called "sinks") or by minimizing deforestation. Therefore, without specifically mandating a police towards the same, the Protocol simply obliges ratifying countries to come up with principles and activities that will meet emission targets.
Therefore, in its 2004 response strategy South Africa prospected to look into changes in its forestry practices. "More temperature tolerant cultivars within the current tree species could be selected, but it is more probable that more lucrative uses for the land, such as sub-tropical fruits, may compete for the land currently under tree plantations. Genetic engineering could be used to develop more heat and drought resistant hybrids, which would allow the forestry industry to counter the threat of climate change and also to maintain current production areas. However, it should be noted that current commercial forests make extensive use of exotic species, a practice that may influence biodiversity and other climate change sensitive factors such as excessive water use and soil properties. Further, community based forestry, using indigenous species and knowledge, has demonstrable benefits. In addition, a smaller scale approach can generate more employment, and may also be more compatible with a diversity of crops/species, thus serving adaptation and reducing vulnerability. The benefits of all approaches need to be carefully evaluated as a matter of urgency and an appropriate action plan developed." (A National Climate Change Response Strategy, 2004).
Therefore, the country's impetus to its forestry activities will augment the emissions generated by South Africa – it being a major coal exporting country. Thus trading of emissions will be considered due to the vulnerability of this particular industry of South Africa if it will be mandated with emission targets.
From the onset, the Kyoto Protocol recognized the need for the establishment of an Adaptation Fund to assist developing countries that will be critically affected by the drastic climate change. Such funding will enable them to offset any economic impact of any realignment of their micro and macroeconomic activities. Such fund will favorably patronize and subsidize priority projects and programme of those affected countries based on needs and as support to building their capacities.
To this end, the identified Annex I ratifying countries must meet their emission targets and thus report yearly on fulfillment of commitments. Those who are non-Annex I will conversely report on their needs and issues whilst trying to adapt to the processes of meeting the reduction of greenhouse gases. In addition, developing countries in annex I must remove subsidies for technologies that has ill effects on the environment; develop non-energy uses of fossil fuels, advanced fossil-fuel technologies and carbon capture/storage technologies; improve efficiency by building capacities and assist those non-Annex I developing countries highly dependent on fossil fuels to diversify their economies.
Thus, South Africa is qualified to avail of funding assistance through the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol. And upon availing of funding assistance, South Africa will ensure that it will be applied to projects that will sustain development needs. Together with UNIDO, South Africa has already come up in 2003 with a Clean Defense Mechanism Investment Guide. Therefore, any investments or adaptation funding that will be generated must likewise redound to the satisfaction of donor parties.
"The Impact of Climate Change on South Africa". 03 November 2003. Climate Change News.
Department of Environmental Affairs and Toursim, Pretoria 0001. September 2004.
Turpie, J., Winkler, H., Spalding-Fecher, R., Midgley, G. February 2002.


It is so hard to decide what to do with things that have sentimental value! Even though they are "things," they bring us such memories, some good, some very sad. Maybe ask your children if either of them would like it. Maybe Casey would like it for his eventual children. Yes, the endless chore of cleaning out is never over, it seems. (The Grammar Police may get me for that second comma! I am not sure about it!) If you decide to not keep it, perhaps a photograph of it will still bring you beautiful memories.
It IS so hard; and the trouble is that most of our stuff has sentimental value! All our parents are gone and we got their stuff: Mom's jello bowl, the candlesticks that Dad made, Clara's drop leaf table made by Uncle Felix, the plant stands that Joe made, the hutch that mom rescued from Uncle Jud's basement, Grandma's dishes, the dishes that Uncle Kenny brought Clara from Japan….. AAAGH!
I'm awaiting a quote from a guy on the firetruck. Maybe this article will be tribute enough, and the money we make from it we'll use to do something good? I don't know. Waiting to see how it all plays out… Good to hear from you!
That is one special truck. His generation is dying and with them go all their stories and any sense of who they were. But if that truck was important enough to survive all these years, that tells us something about him.
Thanks. I got a fun new photography app — PicsArt. And it's free!
Beautifully written! I really like the way you incorporated the firetruck into the narrative about Donnie. It really drew me into his story.
Thank you so much. I loved writing this post. First I researched the fire truck ; then we researched Patton's Third Army. There was a lot of fascinating stuff we found that I just didn't have room for. Maybe some other post… But you must love finding historical things to write about too!
That antique fire truck is absolutely fabulous! Of course, I want one now…lol. Loved your post!


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A CLIFTON schoolboy has come from nowhere to become an international athlete in little more than 18 months.
Ryan Parker, a 15-year-old who attends Samuel Whitbread Community College, only began running competitively in early 2005.
After a success-laden introduction, this year has seen the Bedford and County athlete make some more giant strides forward.
Running in the under-17 age group, he was runner-up at the English schools' cross-country championships.
He was then asked to join the England squad taking part in the World cross-country championships in Italy. Ryan was the youngest runner in the under-18 race and finished 11th.
During the track season he was unbeaten in both Eastern and National Young Athletes League races.
He won bronze at the AAAs, as well as at the English Schools' Championships and the UK School Games, at 3000m and ran at Crystal Palace in an under-20 3000m at the Norwich Union Grand Prix meeting.
Ryan lives in Clifton with his parents Linda and Gary and younger brother Chris, who goes to Henlow Middle School.
Mum Linda said: "He had problems with his shins, then his knees, and he had to rest his legs between races.
"When his knee problems started, after seeking advice, he did start a daily exercise programme.
"Now his legs have improved Ryan is totally focused and dedicated to running. He puts himself through a strict daily training programme and only eats and drinks things that will improve his performance."
Ryan made swift progress after taking up running at a relatively late stage.
Needing runners to represent the school at the district cross-country championships, the head of PE at Samuel Whitbread, Lynda Tailor, picked Ryan purely by chance during 'Chinese relays'.
She certainly had no idea of his potential for the championships which took place in late January 2005 as he came home in third.
After this race he was approached by Bedford and County AC and began training with them one night a week.
Just six weeks later, Ryan finished ninth out of 332 finishers at the English schools' cross-country championships.
Next came the London mini-marathon where he finished runner-up behind his arch rival Simon Horsfield.
Ryan, now a member at Bedford, finished the track and field season unbeaten with a clutch of gold medals to add to the many trophies he had won as a talented footballer.
He also broke the club records at 800m, 1500m and 3000m as well as ranking top of the 2005 1500m UK ranking list, sixth in the 800m and top in 3000m which also placed him ninth in the all-time list.
He was also English schools' 1500m champion and AAAs champion.
During the Aldershot relays last September, Ryan took the team from fifth place - with a 52-second deficit - to the gold and smashed the course record by eight seconds.
Ryan was named as junior sports personality of the year at the Bedford Sports Awards.
Club president Fred Wooding said: "Ryan has a very rare ability to make world class", while Paula Radcliffe's coach Alex Stanton added: "In all my years of coaching, I have never seen such a talent".
Ryan is coached at Bedford and County AC by Martin Cadman plus James and Tony Tuttle.
Mum Linda added: "The team have worked with Ryan without gain for themselves.


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Defining moments in young adult dystopia: a timeline
By Ashley Belanger @ashleyedits
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Lord of the Flies (1954)
By William Golding
A group of British schoolboys must learn to govern themselves after being marooned on a desert island during the middle of a nuclear war.
The Chrysalids (1955)
Ten-year-old David must hide his "mutant" telepathic ability from post-apocalyptic society leaders who have a theological prejudice against "Deviations" like him.
By Madeleine L'Engle
Siblings Meg and Charles Wallace Murry travel to Camazotz to save their scientist father (and subsequently, the world) from the Black Thing.
Logan's Run (1967)
By William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson
In a society where everyone is dictated to die at the precise age of 21, Logan's job is to chase down anyone who runs from this fate.
House of Stairs (1974)
By William Sleator
Five 16-year-old orphans awake in a curious prison with no walls, floor or ceiling – just endless flights of stairs, which they must climb while enduring each other's personalities.
By Orson Scott Card
Ender Wiggin is drafted on a special mission to help his society fight off the attacks of the buggers, an alien race that is at war with the planet Earth.
The Giver (1993)
By Lois Lowry
In a society where jobs are assigned at a certain age, Jonas is given a unique assignment that proves very difficult to bear.
Uglies (2005)
At the age of 16, everyone in Tally Youngblood's society undergoes plastic surgery to become "Pretty," but at 15, Tally must deal with the knowledge that this also extends to mental modification.
By Suzanne Collins
Katniss Everdeen volunteers to represent her district in the Hunger Games, a teen battle to the death intended to prevent insurgency.
Matched (2010)
By Ally Condie
At 17, Cassia Reyes is eligible to be matched with her life partner, but a hiccup in the system causes her to be matched with not one but two men, leading her to question her society for the first time.
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Will WorldCon 2020 Be Why George R. R. Martin Finishes 'Winds of Winter'?
Posted on May 28, 2019 | by Mary Anne Butler | 0 Comment(s)
HBO's watch has ended when it comes to the main saga of Game of Thrones, and eyes are once again turning to creator George R. R. Martin to FINISH. THE. DAMN. BOOKS.
Martin continues to give non-updates on the state of things, and we do sympathize with Grandpa George. Imagine having the responsibility of the most popular television show in the world's highly divisive ending in your rearview mirror while trying to bring your creation to a full and satisfying close. That's a lot of pressure, admittedly.
And, oddly enough, we may have a 2020 literary event to thank for the final push to get him to finish the next book in the series, "The Winds of Winter".
Credit: George R. R. Martin (website)
Air New Zealand launched a video campaign to get GRRM to visit them, in the hopes that a trip to the magical island will help him "finish his book".
GRRM responded to this on his "Not-A-Blog", admitting that he *does* have plans to hit New Zealand in 2020 for WorldCon.
In the summer of 2020, Wellington is hosting the World Science Fiction Convention, the oldest and most important con in the SF/ fantasy calendar, and they've asked me to serve as Toastmaster for the Hugo Awards. Writers, fans, and artists from all over the world will be headed down to check out all of your wonders. I hope lots of you Kiwis will join us.
www.conzealand.nz
GRRM goes to far as to say a trip like that would probably distract him more, BUT DID SAY if he didn't have "The Winds of Winter" *IN HAND* by WorldCon, they could do their worst to him:
As for finishing my book… I fear that New Zealand would distract me entirely too much. Best leave me here in Westeros for the nonce. But I tell you this — if I don't have THE WINDS OF WINTER in hand when I arrive in New Zealand for worldcon, you have here my formal written permission to imprison me in a small cabin on White Island, overlooking that lake of sulfuric acid, until I'm done. Just so long as the acrid fumes do not screw up my old DOS word processor, I'll be fine.
That….sounds promising?
We'll let you know what we hear about a possible release date, and anything Grandpa George shares about the upcoming HBO Game of Thrones spinoff series.
About Mary Anne Butler
Bleeding Cool News Editor Mary Anne Butler (Mab, for short) has been part of the fast-paced world of journalism since she was 15, getting her start in album reviews and live concert coverage for a nationally published (print) music magazine. She eventually transitioned to online media, writing for such sites as UGO/IGN, ComicsOnline, Geek Magazine, Ace of Geeks, Aggressive Comix (where she is still Editor-in-Chief), and most recently Bleeding Cool.
Over the past 10 years, she's built a presence at conventions across the globe as a cosplayer (occasionally), photographer (constantly), panelist and moderator (mostly), and reporter (always).
Interviews, reviews, observations, breaking news, and objective reporting are the name of the game for the founder of Harkonnen Knife Fight, a Dune-themed band with an international presence.
Though she be but little, she is fierce. #MabTheProfessional
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