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Q: How to only display the year in datepicker for Flutter? I want to the program to only ask the user for year input. But as you know, the date picker asks for a full date, including month and day. Is there a way to make it so that the user is only asked of the year?

A: Afaik, you can't use datePicker to only select the year. But you can do it by using dialog and a YearPicker widget.
Here a sample code to show dialog with a YearPicker (read the comment):
showDialog(
      context: context,
      builder: (BuildContext context) {
        return AlertDialog(
          title: Text("Select Year"),
          content: Container( // Need to use container to add size constraint.
            width: 300,
            height: 300,
            child: YearPicker(
              firstDate: DateTime(DateTime.now().year - 100, 1),
              lastDate: DateTime(DateTime.now().year + 100, 1),
              initialDate: DateTime.now(),
              // save the selected date to _selectedDate DateTime variable.
              // It's used to set the previous selected date when
              // re-showing the dialog.
              selectedDate: _selectedDate,
              onChanged: (DateTime dateTime) {
                // close the dialog when year is selected.
                Navigator.pop(context);

                // Do something with the dateTime selected.
                // Remember that you need to use dateTime.year to get the year
              },
            ),
          ),
        );
      },
    );

A: You can use this snippet to select a year, it's a custom year picker using Alert dialog.
  // Call this in the select year button.
  void _pickYear(BuildContext context) {
    showDialog(
      context: context,
      builder: (context) {
        final Size size = MediaQuery.of(context).size;
        return AlertDialog(
          title: Text('Select a Year'),
          // Changing default contentPadding to make the content looks better

          contentPadding: const EdgeInsets.all(10),
          content: SizedBox(
            // Giving some size to the dialog so the gridview know its bounds

            height: size.height / 3,
            width: size.width,
            //  Creating a grid view with 3 elements per line.
            child: GridView.count(
              crossAxisCount: 3,
              children: [
                // Generating a list of 123 years starting from 2022
                // Change it depending on your needs.
                ...List.generate(
                  123,
                  (index) => InkWell(
                    onTap: () {
                      // The action you want to happen when you select the year below,

                      // Quitting the dialog through navigator.
                      Navigator.pop(context);
                    },
                    // This part is up to you, it's only ui elements
                    child: Padding(
                      padding: const EdgeInsets.all(8.0),
                      child: Chip(
                        label: Container(
                          padding: const EdgeInsets.all(5),
                          child: Text(
                            // Showing the year text, it starts from 2022 and ends in 1900 (you can modify this as you like)
                            (2022 - index).toString(),
                          ),
                        ),
                      ),
                    ),
                  ),
                ),
              ],
            ),
          ),
        );
      },
    );
  }


The hauntingly sensual sound of the flute drifts in what would seem to be an effortless flow, wafting across the sounds of the mundane, offering a gentle and relaxing voyage into peace and tranquillity, creating the trademark of this latest release from world renown flautist Ann Licater, in her fifth solo album Quiet Spaces.
Licater has selected a range of soothing songs to delight the heart and soul, and when played in her award-winning style on a selection of flutes, creates a seamless, 45-minute journey to take the listener anywhere they choose to follow.
Subtle, haunting, mysterious notes float ever outward weaving a delightful soundscape that enchants, while encouraging meditation, mindfulness and well-being, beginning with the title track Quiet Spaces, a relaxing and soothing song to begin a true soul journey.
Whist none of the pieces are overly long a distinct calmness descends on the space, bringing with it a rather unique vibration, very easy to tune into and enjoy for the time available.
Ann Licater's skill with the selection of flutes chosen to be used is very, very impressive. The range of instruments used for Quiet Spaces include a Mayan Temple flute replica to a Tennessee Butternut Native American flute, which takes her back to her first release Following the Call, more than ten years ago.
Although the work is pure flute, with the very occasional addition of delicate wordless vocals and Peter Phippen on electric bass, the songs are not repetitious as the choice of instrument on each piece allows it to develop its own unique identity, while maintaining the original intent, to create a sonic journey of relaxation.
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Getting to the Meat of the Matter: An Interview with Daniel Imhoff about CAFOs | Civil Eats
Getting to the Meat of the Matter: An Interview with Daniel Imhoff about CAFOs
By Paula Crossfield
The CAFO Reader – a new book featuring essays by farmers Wendell Berry, Becky Weed, and Fred Kirschenmann, Republican speech writer Matthew Scully, journalist Michael Pollan and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., among many others – gives a full picture of the environmental, social, and ethical implications of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, and includes a section of essays on "Putting the CAFO Out to Pasture." A CAFO is an Environmental Protection Agency designation for a farming facility that keeps numerous animals raised for food in close confinement, with the potential to pollute. These facilities often produce extreme amounts of waste, which ends up in toxic lagoons, sprayed on the land, and eventually in the watershed; require the use of high doses of antibiotics, thereby adding to the growth of drug-resistant bacteria; and are exempt from most animal cruelty laws. I spoke with the editor of The CAFO Reader, Daniel Imhoff, who is also the cofounder, director, and publisher of Watershed Media, about recent legislation and the future of the CAFO.
Our last interview was before Obama was elected. How do you feel now that there is Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food, and a Secretary of Agriculture that is actually discussing making changes in agriculture?
You can't help but be thrilled about the discourse that is going on right now. You have the FDA coming out with guidelines saying is that we need to limit the use of antibiotics in animal food production only to medical need. Then you have the USDA issuing new nutritional guidelines that basically say we need to eat a lot less saturated fat, AKA animal products, and a lot more vegetables, nuts, and whole grains. Then you have the Department of Justice, the Attorney General and the USDA jointly looking into concentration within the agricultural industry. I think what it really shows is that these people understand their jobs and are not afraid to do them. We might be getting towards an age of clarity and urgency. You can't help but look at the oil spill, and say there is an exact metaphor with the industrial food system—it's uncontainable, and it's unsustainable, and it's inevitable that we have to get somewhere else. And that something else is pretty much the exact opposite of what we have right now.
If CAFOs were called "factories" instead of being called farms, would they be regulated differently?
If the CAFO is legally considered a farm, or an agricultural enterprise, rather than an industry, then it is exempt from regulation of its airborne and land-borne waste. The industry has been fighting for many years to retain this agricultural status. Agriculture developed as this interaction between the appropriate number of animals creating fertility for a diverse number of crops. It was a whole closed production system. With this intensive concentration of animals it's rare when the surrounding land can absorb the waste.
What effect do you think a change in our policies around antibiotic use in livestock would have on the way the industry operates?
It cuts right to the issue of scale. If you take away the antibiotics, then you can't cram so many animals in such unhealthy conditions with an unnatural diet. And so you suddenly have to reduce the concentration and intensification of agriculture.
How does agricultural concentration affect farmers and consumers?
These companies want us to think that they are Smithfield Farm, and that they are taking care of their pigs. But they control the breeding facilities and production, they own feed mills and slaughterhouses. They are producing huge amounts of meat, and so the price stays low, but you either play their game or you have to make your own alternative industry from start to finish. At one of the Department of Justice workshops, a chicken farmer was saying that a bucket of fried chicken in his area costs $26.95, and he gets $0.30 for growing the chickens that went into the bucket. And in the meantime the CEOs of Purdue, Tyson, and KFC are making millions.
Farmers often feel attacked when criticism is laid on the industry. Do you have any ideas for how to remedy this disconnection?
The only way that we can help that disconnection is to bring more farmers into the discussion. For many years, what we've seen is corporations hiding behind this facade of the rancher or the farmer with his cows ambling around the pasture, a few hogs and a couple chickens. [In fact,] the corporations that are dominating food production right now are extremely anti-farmer. They've basically wiped out the small livestock producer in the United States. And anyone who remains, who can sell to these huge corporate interests is either massive or they're a corporate contractor and they are barely surviving. What is heartening to me is to hear the Secretary of Agriculture say that one of his goals during his tenure is to generate 100,000 new farmers.
Wendell Berry's essay, Renewing Husbandry, talks about how modern agriculture has decreased the amount of landowners and self-employed in rural areas. What effect is this having?
Wendell [says that] when you lose your small farmers, you lose your community. When you loose your community, you loose your reverence for the land. When your reverence for the land is turned over to this higher corporate economic power, then everything becomes commodified. Then we loose the beauty and our control over a healthy life, the fabric of our country. And these are the issues that are at stake here.
What do you view as reasonable goals for the food movement, specifically around changing CAFO policy?
Ultimately, I think the long-term goal is probably the elimination of the CAFO. How practical is that? Well, I don't know. Certainly you are working from all directions at the same time. Governor Schwarzenegger signed a very important piece of legislation [that] says that anyone who sells eggs in California has to abide by the regulations put forth in Proposition 2. That means if you are in Iowa, and you want to sell eggs in California, you can't use battery cages after 2015. I think that [it] would be a reasonable goal to have [Doctor of Animal Science and professor] Temple Grandin helping to shape the ethics and the economics of animal food production. She has a mind for trying to make things work from an animal's perspective, and she is not unrealistic. Somehow we have to get industry out of the driver's seat.
What about some of the techno-fixes, like genetic modifications geared toward producing animals more suited to factory farm conditions. Do you think they miss the point?
[The industry] is just trying, at all costs, to keep a bad idea afloat. Trying to engineer a featherless chicken that doesn't need to be plucked, the hen or the sow stripped of its mothering instincts so that its not traumatized when its babies are taken away, grasses that will decrease flatulence and therefore methane production in livestock. Ultimately where we're going now is in-vitro meat, where we don't need animals at all, we just clone tissue, and manufacture animal flesh.
Which has been praised by animal welfare activists because there wouldn't be animal suffering involved. Do you see this as a way of decreasing the amount of factory farms?
I understand it in principle. I don't understand how you factor the environmental footprint of that process, but its something much deeper. In this life that we're living where we give over the power and the responsibility of growing food to somebody else, we're separated from the very processes of life. And in that disconnection, it makes it harder and harder to understand how ultimately everything is extremely connected. What you hear from industry [is] how are we possibly going to satiate [the growing population] without intense concentration of production, and without the industrialization of agriculture? And in fact we haven't really answered that question. And that is going to be the question for me for the next 50 years, is how are we going to create diets in each of our respective regions that become the engine for health, they power our bodies, they power our economies, and they keep our land healthy? It's just pretty much assumed that an animal-intensive diet is good for us, and unfortunately the science shows otherwise.
Do you eat meat?
I would say that I am a less-meatarian. I am a cautious omnivore. I love to grow food. I do raise chickens, and a couple hogs.
Who do you hope will read the CAFO reader?
The idea was to show the concern, the analysis, the urgency for something different is shared by everyone. So my hope would be that anybody who considers it important might take a look and read a bunch of very different perspectives. I hope that people in Poland and Romania read it and maybe the Ukraine and Georgia, and anywhere else that the CAFO industry is beginning to set its sights.
The photo book that accompanies the essays comes out in September. What will we be seeing there?
I think what you will graphically see is the doors of CAFOs pulled back. It's going to show what the industry doesn't really want you to know about food production. What I've heard from people on the press in China is that the book has changed their view of humanity and food.
We're already talking about the 2012 Farm Bill. I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about what the ask could be around regulating CAFOs more effectively.
One of the most egregious current programs in the Farm Bill is the Environmental Quality Incentives Program. [Through this] a single CAFO operator is eligible to receive up to $450,000 for waste treatment investment, things that if you were an industry, this would just be a cost of doing business. So the one thing we could do is absolutely stop paying for [this]. Then we certainly have to move away from a system of maximizing corn-harvest feed production toward a conservation-based approach to agriculture. And that would be taking the direct payments out of the commodity title. That money that goes to a farmer every year, whether they farm or not. Those payments [should go] toward some kind of green payments, conservation- based program. What would we do if Wendell Berry or Wes Jackson was in charge of the Department of Agriculture? I think what they would say is what we really need to change this discussion from the animal grain-based production system that we have right now and go toward a more perennial, deep-rooted, pasture-based agriculture.
What you called "getting perennial by the next centennial?"
Yeah. It's going to mean fewer animals. It's going to mean soil protection and carbon sequestration, and a much more conservation-based agriculture. It's something that Big Ag and the farm community is not going to be crazy about in the short term, so it has to be incentivized. We have a great deficit in fruit and vegetable production. We import a huge amount of our fruits and vegetables, and this is the part of our diet, which the USDA is struggling to get back on the table. And they are saying that we need 13 million acres of fruits and vegetables. Hey, that should be in the Farm Bill. There's lots of change to be had. One would hope at least that this administration could pull together the absolute best standards that the world has right now, adopt them, and force some big change.
Paula Crossfield is a founder and the Editor-at-large of Civil Eats. She is also a co-founder of the Food & Environment Reporting Network. Her reporting has been featured in The Nation, Gastronomica, Index Magazine, The New York Times and more, and she has been a contributing producer at The Leonard Lopate Show on New York Public Radio. An avid cook and gardener, she currently lives in Oakland. Read more >
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Halo Infinite Campaign Gameplay Showcases "The Conservatory" Mission, New Weapons
Although 343 Industries is trying to address issues of sequencing with Infinite's Halo beta multiplayer, it is also polishing the campaign on its way to release next month. In the meantime, IGN has a few new gameplay pictures that showcase "The Conservatory" mission. This takes place a few hours into the campaign and offers a look at several weapons that are new to the franchise. Check it out below.
Some of these new weapons include the Rifle Shock (with Electric weapons being a new type that deals more damage to shields); the heat waves that ignite the vertical or horizontal propagation of ammo; and the Cindershot that lobbies explosive missile bounces. We also see the new Skimmers in action. These are enemies that are just hovering above ground and which are rather annoying in flocks.
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Fifth Adult Film Actor Tests HIV-Positive, Marking Largest Outbreak in Porn Industry in Six Years
A fifth pornographic film actor in California has tested HIV-positive, marking the largest HIV outbreak in the adult film industry in six years, according to the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, Reuters reports. The latest case has been linked to three other adult film actors who tested positive last month (Keating, Reuters , 5/5). Adult film actors Darren James, Lara Roxx and Jessica Dee last month tested HIV-positive, and 53 workers who may have had unprotected sex with one of the actors or their sex partners subsequently agreed to a voluntary work quarantine. About 12 companies agreed to a 60-day production moratorium until HIV testing of the actors is completed, according to industry experts. Approximately 1,200 adult film actors undergo monthly testing for HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis, and many production companies require performers to show their test results before filming ( Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report , 5/5). AIM did not release the name of the most recent actor to test positive, but the trade magazine Adult Video News reported that the actor's manager confirmed her stage name as Miss Arroyo, the AP/Indianapolis Star reports ( AP/Indianapolis Star , 5/6). Miss Arroyo worked in a sex scene with James and another man on March 30, three weeks after James returned from filming in Brazil, where he is believed to have contracted HIV, according to the New York Times (Madigan, New York Times , 5/6). Brazil's porn industry -- which is thought to be the world's second-largest after the United States' -- does not require HIV testing, but most production companies honor an unwritten agreement requiring actors to use condoms ( Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report , 4/28).
'Benefit of Containment'
AIM Executive Director Sharon Mitchell said that Miss Arroyo has been "working in the industry for several years," adding, "She has a good head on [her] shoulders and was well prepared for this diagnosis. She did realize that HIV was an occupational hazard" ( Reuters , 5/5). Miss Arroyo on Wednesday was referred to a case worker, who will oversee blood tests, nutrition, medications and possible mental health counseling, according to Mitchell ( New York Times , 5/6). Mitchell said that Miss Arroyo's other sex partners already have tested HIV-negative once, but they will be monitored for another 30 days, according to Reuters . "This is the benefit of containment," Mitchell said, adding that the actors "haven't been out working. They have been under quarantine" since the first cases were identified ( Reuters , 5/5). In an unrelated case, a transsexual actor who goes by the stage name Jennifer on Tuesday also tested HIV-positive. Jennifer last performed a sex scene on Feb. 27 with two male performers who have since tested HIV-negative ( Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report , 5/5).


Nasdaq Dubai has welcomed the listing of a $1.3 billion sukuk by Islamic Development Bank (IDB), which is now the largest Sukuk issuer by value on the exchange at $11.8 billion in total.
It was the ninth Sukuk to be listed on Nasdaq Dubai since 2014 by the multilateral lender, which finances development across its 57 member countries.
The IDB's activities include building partnerships between governments, the private sector and civil society; increasing skills and knowledge sharing; focusing on science, technology and innovation led solutions to development challenges; promoting global development that is underpinned by Sharia-compliant sustainable financing structures; and fostering collaboration between its members nations to focus on the betterment of humanity.


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Power Outage Can't Stop Yankees' Offense Against the Rays
By Connor T - May 12, 2019
Coming into this final game of the three-game set, both teams had won one game with the Yankees winning game one in a one run contest and the Rays winning the second game in blowout fashion. With the Yankees looking to catch up to the Rays in the standings, this game was a crucial one for this rolling Yankees team.
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Masahiro Tanaka started for the Yankees and provided them with a solid outing, pitching seven innings while striking out seven and giving up just one run due to a solo homerun from Austin Meadows. Blake Snell was the Rays' starter today and he managed to send down the first nine Yankees in order, striking out twelve over his 5.2 inning outing. In this time, he also allowed two runs which came as a result of a fifth inning rally with two outs that featured a Mike Tauchman double and a D.J. LeMahieu single which each scored one.
The score stayed 2-1 until the top of the eighth when Luke Voit scored on a wild pitch which was upheld by replay. Following this inning, a forty-three-minute power outage at Tropicana field delayed the ninth inning. Coming out of this delay, the Yankees offense exploded and scored four runs in the top of the ninth. These runs came due to a Thairo Estrada solo homerun, a Gio Urshela double which scored Austin Romine and Mike Tauchman, and a Brett Gardner sacrifice fly scored Luke Voit. In the bottom of this inning, Chad Green came in to close out the game and struck out the side to give the Yankees the 7-1 win over the Rays.
Following this victory, the Yankees are half a game behind the Rays in the division standings and the Yankees move to 24-16 on the season.
The Yankees will play the Orioles in a three-game series which begins tomorrow. The game will begin at 6:35 PM and Jonathan Loaisiga will get the start.
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Europe's interest in fuel efficiency goes back a long way: the need to import the majority of their petroleum products from other countries (that don't necessarily like Europe), high gasoline prices ($ 6.25 a gallon is the midpoint as of early 2019), emerging rules that ban or add high fees for combustion-engine vehicles entering some big cities, and concerns over the effects on vehicle-caused air pollution and climate change. Here's our rundown of the best electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids of the show.
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"We are delighted to be given a renewed vote of confidence by the expert committee and NOKUT, allowing us to continue the work we do," says CEMPE's centre director Jon Helge Sætre. .
CEMPE stands for Centre of Excellence in Music Performance Education. The institution gained its designation in 2013. The centre seeks to develop knowledge about teaching and learning in higher music education. CEMPE uses projects, networks and innovative experiments to explore teaching methods, working methods and education content for students preparing to enter the music profession.
Over the past year CEMPE has made a considerable effort with regard to self assessment, institutional visits and feedback from the expert committee. This process resulted in an action plan which sets out the way ahead for CEMPE and which will prove valuable as the centre enters its next five-year period.
"Delightful news." Centre director Jon Helge Sætre.
The centres of excellence have been evaluated by an international expert committee. Unanimously and without reservation, the committee recommended that both CEMPE and its sister centres bioCEED and MatRIC be given centre of excellence status for another five years (2019–2023). The evaluation report shows that the expert committee was impressed by what the three centres have achieved within their respective institutions, nationally and internationally.
In addition to assessing the centres, the evaluation process also looked at development. One of the tasks of the committee was to help the centres develop plans for the next period by asking critical questions and setting stringent requirements.
"The centres have achieved a great deal in a short space of time. All of them have developed a series of successful programmes, projects and initiatives. They have also convincingly shown how they have contributed to and improved teaching practices. During the halfway evaluation the centres developed a clear vision of how they saw their contributions to developing pedagogical practices in their respective areas of expertise," he tells nokut.no.


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Before Avenue 365, Peterson was the Co-founder and ultimately CEO of SmarterTitle.com. SHAMYO CHATTERJEE Ellie Mae hired Shamyo "Sham" Chatterjee as VP of Information Technology. In this role, Chatterjee will be responsible for providing the technology vision and leadership for developing and implementing internal business and information systems to support the company's growing business. Prior to joining Ellie Mae, Chatterjee served as the CIO of CallidusCloud for over 12 years, where he held varying responsibilities over corporate IT, SaaS operations, security and compliance, and facilities organizations worldwide. GERI BREWSTER HomeUnion appointed Geri Brewster as Chief Compliance and Risk Officer, where she will oversee legal, risk, and compliance functions. In addition, she is also responsible for human resources, business development and HomeUnion Lending, Inc., the new mortgage brokerage subsidiary of HomeUnion. Brewster has more than 30 years' leadership experience in government, legal, corporate, and private equity environments. Most recently, Brewster was COO at Fleetgistics, where she spent the bulk of her career in various C-Level positions with Toyota Financial Services including General Counsel and Group VP, Toyota Financial Savings Bank. Before joining Toyota she spent several years as a real estate finance attorney in private practice. JIM WEIR imortgage appointed Jim Weir as VP of Regional Production for the imortgage South Central region. Weir has served as one of the top branch managers with imortgage for the last three of his five years with the company. With 17 years' experience in the industry focused on production, he has been involved in all facets of the industry from operations to secondary marketing. He has worked with both large public and regional banks, as well as owned a multistate mortgage company. 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Saddarshanam, Class 20
Shloka # 32:
Having reached within the heart, by the search, the "I" notion whose head is broken, falls. Then, another " I" which is the main one shines forth. It is not ego, but it is Supreme fullness alone.
Continuing his teaching, Swami Paramarthananda said, here Bhagawan Ramana Maharishi presents the result of Self Enquiry or Atma Vichara in a poetic language. Here displacement of Ahamkara by the higher "I" is discussed. After Self Enquiry, now, Atma has become the master. The higher "I" replaces the lower "I". So, how does this feel displacement in practical terms? Does one see a new & shining Atma? What does one feel in practice? Bhagawan Ramana Maharishi says the change is only in our understanding. Detachment of Ahamkara occurs only due to a change in our understanding. Originally, I thought, I was a mortal Jivatma and all transactions reflected this misunderstanding. However, I am now the immortal Atma. This radically changes all my transactions as the motive behind them has changed.
The second change is that removal of Ahmakara does not mean Ahamkara is totally destroyed or banished. It just means Ahamkara's position has been scaled down. Master Ahamkara has been demoted to being just an instrument of transaction. The Swamy now is the higher "I", Ahamkara has become only a means or medium for transaction. For a Gyani, a Jivan Mukta, the Ahamkara is only an incidental mithya medium. In a Videha Mukta, Ahamkara is completely dissolved.
For the Gyani, Mithya Ahamkara is required for all transactions. It is actually a "requirement" for performing transactions. Thus, even to say, "Aham Brahma Asmi" requires Ahamkara.
However, to be in Brahman, I do not require Ahamkara. Therefore, to say and teach Aham Brahma Asmi, I still need Mithya Ahamakara, knowing it is incidental.
Thus, Gyani uses Ahamkara. Ahamkara is not removed completely. It is a demoted version of the original. Gyani knows "I am the Atma behind it".
What is there that remains to be done for him who shines, having devoured ego? He knows nothing other than Self. Who is capable of conceiving his state of being?
Once this displacement takes place, the Gyani enjoys poornatvam. Gyani does not struggle any more to accomplish things in life. His mission in life is accomplished. Rest of his life is available to Lord to use him in anyway he wants. He is like a flute for Sri Krishna. The flute is empty inside with nine holes. A human being is also like a flute that once emptied of ego, God can play him and great music comes out. The same body flute when played by the ego emits Apasruti. Such a Gyani stands out in society. His face is without tension. This Gyani need not perform Dharma, Artha and Kama as they are all part of moksha. The infinite includes all finites. He is no more a karta or bhokta. He does not have any worldly duties to fulfill. In Indian society duty is a big burden on an individual. Vedanta says you can never complete your duties so long as you are a karta. If Gyani has duties, they are now transferred to mithya Ahamkara. It becomes part of a drama. He does not have sleepless nights for not fulfilling his duties. While he still performs, he does so in a relaxed manner. This is the description of a Jivan Mukta. He does not perceive anything other than Atma. Everything he sees is Atma. What about Anatma? They are seen as non-substantial Nama and Roopas imposed over the Atma.
Bhagawan Ramana Maharishi says I am struggling to describe a Gyani. To describe the state of mind of a Gyani is very difficult. Only way is to become one. So, become one says the Bhagawan.
The Veda has said clearly, "That thou art". Even then, not having obtained abidance in the Supreme Self, to inquire again indicates the debility of the mind. That Reality indeed shines always as one's Self.
This is an important shloka. Here Bhagawan Ramana Maharishi gives an important clue to his thinking. He accepts Vedanta Vichara as Atma Vichara. Many believe Self Enquiry does not require Vedanta. Bhagawan Ramana Maharishi clarifies here how to use Vedanta Vichara. It is an important means. Any means is a blessing if handled properly. If not, then there are two problems:
The method may not give expected result.
It can create a negative result.
Vedanta Vichara is a sacred instrument if used properly. If not, its results can't be good. What is Vedanta Vichara? It is meant for securing emotional independence from everything secular and sacred. Even dependence on God is dependence. Dependence by its very nature indicates Samsara. Vedanta also should not be an object of dependence. It should give independence from everything including Vedanta. I should use it to enlighten myself. If I forget this, then it becomes a means of enjoyment and entertainment. Vedanta is a means of revealing myself as a source of Joy. It itself is not a source of joy. If used as a source of joy, we become attached to Vedanta. It then becomes a source of dependence, causing anger, anxiety and stress.
Vedas say " You are the Brahman" the source of Joy and peace. Even a Guru does not want his Shishya to be dependent upon him. If one loses purpose of Vedanta Vichara then Vedanta Vichara becomes an addiction. Therefore, performing continuous enquiry mechanically, losing sight of original purpose, is an addiction and is due to immaturity of mind.
If you remember the goal and continue enquiry it is purposeful. It will give us final independence. Any addiction makes mind weaker including on Vedanta Vichara.
That Paramatma is always accessible as your own nature for peace and joy. It is your own nature. Vedanta just tells you "You" are the source of the joy.
"I am not myself" or "I know myself"… such expressions of man are a laughable matter. Is the Self two-fold, by the division of the Seer and the seen? In the knowledge of the oneness of one's Self, indeed, there are no divisions."
Here, Bhagawan Ramana Maharishi, talks of uniqueness of Atma Gyanam. It is distinct from all other knowledge. It also occurs in the intellect alone. Hence purification of mind is required. Body is not the locus of knowledge nor is Atma. Intellect alone is the locus of this knowledge. All knowledge requires an appropriate means to obtain it. In this, Self- knowledge is similar to other forms of knowledge. The uniqueness of Self Knowledge lies in the fact that in this knowledge the Subject and the Object are one and the same. I, the Self and I, the Object, are the knowledge. Logically, in any process, including the process of knowledge, subject and object can never be the same. It is a universal law that subject can never be the object. Citing examples of this, thus, the eyes can see everything but themselves; one can taste everything with the tongue but it cannot taste itself etc. Then, how does this Self-knowledge occur?
Best Practices: Since we are all practicing Vedanta Vichara we should keep following concepts always in mind:
What is Vedanta Vichara? It is meant for securing emotional independence from everything secular and sacred.
The uniqueness of Self Knowledge (Vedanta Vichara) lies in the fact that in this knowledge the Subject and the Object are one and the same.
This (Self Knowledge) radically changes all my transactions as the motive behind them has changed.
Foot Note: The Jivanmukta (one who is in Jivanmukti) has gained liberation while in the body, but in this case, the individual regains full awareness of the world, simultaneously with awareness of the "The god is within me and everyone, everything" state. According to Advaita, a liberated human being (jivanmukta) has realised Brahman as his or her own true self.
Videha mukti (Sanskrit, "liberation after death") refers to the moksha, or "liberation attained by a person after death". It is a concept found in Hinduism and Jainism in relation to ending the samsara (the cycle of rebirth), and the concept contrasts with Jivanmukti which refer to achieving "liberation while alive".
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Pioneer Valley Theatre News August 15, 2019
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This Sunday at Luthier's in Easthampton - one of your first chances to support CitySpace - come to Have a Seat Cabrito! Hope to see you there.
Lots of new job and workshop postings this week- don't forget to scroll all the way down! The PVTN Google Calendar is available through that link - if you want to add your events, send me an email and I'll give you permission.
The next issue will include events through September 11. Submit upcoming events via the link below or by emailing me before Tuesday at midnight. Any questions, comments or feedback? Email me at pioneervalleytheatre@gmail.com
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At the "Share Your Spark" event at this year's Humana Festival in Louisville, Kentucky—which was devoted to short presentations about visions for theatre in the United States—artist, teacher, and facilitator Nicole Brewer explained the need for anti-racist theatre. As she wrote in her American Theatre essay "Training With a Difference,"
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Chester Theatre Company presents CURVE OF DEPARTURE by Rachel Bonds
August 15-18; Thursdays at 2pm and 8pm, Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 2pm and 8pm, Sundays at 2pm
Town Hall Theatre, 15 Middlefield Road, Chester, MA
In a New Mexico motel room, three generations gather to lay to rest their past as they look toward the opportunities and challenges of the future.
CURVE OF DEPARTURE offers a multi-faceted, multi-generational picture of family life: loving, complicated, funny, challenging, and full of uncertainty. A father, son, and ex-wife gather to bury a man they loved, but didn't always like. But, he is the reason they have each other to depend upon.
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Franklin County Summer Youth Theater presents Seuss Stories
August 16 and 17 at 7:00 PM, August 18 at 2:00 PM
Hopkins Academy--131 Russell Street, Hadley, MA
A fun family event for children of all ages and those still young at heart. Come see the Star Bellied Sneetches, The Lorax, SeussOdyssey and more both Friday and Saturday night with a matinee in Sunday at 2pm at Hopkins Academy in Hadley, MA. Tix at the door.
Eggtooth Productions presents Barbès in the Woods
August 17 at 1:00 PM
Bartlett Farm in Montague
Introducing Barbès in the Woods, a new global music festival that pays homage to one of Brooklyn's most iconic bars. Nestled in the hills of Western Massachusetts, this day-long festival features two-stages of music with afrobeat pioneers Antibalas, Underground System, Slavic Soul Party!, and more. It's going to be the quintessential backyard festival — the sort of thing you've always wanted in the middle of your summer — on a pristine tract of historic farmland in Montague, Massachusetts.
Underground System
Slavic Soul Party!
Anbessa Orchestra
Alsarah & The Nubatones
Stephane Wrembel
Klezperanto
The Berkshire Bateria & Bossa Triba
THE BACK STORY: Barbès was once a Park Slope laundromat until two Frenchmen turned it into a bar. That bar had a back room for music. And that back room soon became Brooklyn's favorite hang for omnivorous, authentic, non-commercial and international performances. Its been called "a cultural phenomenon" by the Christian Science Monitor and "…the vanguard of the new Brooklyn jazz scene" by the New York Times. The tiny venue hosts more than 700 performances a year. The point is: this is no ordinary bar. And this will not be any ordinary festival.
THEATRE: Come prepared for an immersive theatrical scavenger hunt put together by our friends at The Shea Theater Arts Center, Eggtooth Productions, and Fine House.
THE LOCATION: The festival is set on the former Bartlett Farm in the village of Montague: a twelve-acre tract of field, forest & river abutting the Sawmills Conservation Area and forming a natural enclosure for an intimate gathering. Music on two stages from 1PM-11PM.
Montague is 3 hours north of New York City and 2 hours west of Boston. It has a distinctly progressive, Western Mass vibe. The legendary Book Mill is just around the bend.
Eggtooth Productions and the Shea Theater Turners Falls collaborate with the performance company, Fine House to enhance your Barbés in the Woods experience by drawing you into immersive encounters with musical, magical woodland beings who emanate from the forest, dance through meadows, and sing up from babbling streams to engage you, captivate you, and create personal moments of enchantment as you discover and collect their gifts. As part of the festival, enjoy this mystical scavenger hunt celebrating sense, feeling, and perspective.
Round trip charter buses leave from Park Slope in the morning and return late at night. Visit www.barbesinthewoods.com to reserve a seat or find out more.
The festival is made possible in part with help from our partners: New England Public Radio, Greenfield Northampton Cooperative Bank, Turners Falls RiverCulture, Montague Cultural Council, Northeast Solar, and AMR of Springfield.
Happier Valley Comedy presents The Happier Family Comedy Show
Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, 125 W Bay Rd, Amherst, MA
Monthly family-friendly improv comedy show, great for 5-13 year olds and their adults. It's funny for the whole family! Saturday, August 17th at 3pm at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (125 W Bay Rd., Amherst). Tickets at the door: $10/Adults, $5/Kids, Free/4 yrs and under (Reduced admission for museum members).
For more info: www.happiervalley.com.
Happier Valley Comedy presents HVC Presents: Not In Charge
Happier Valley Comedy Theater, 1 Mill Rd, Hadley, MA
Join the talented group Not In Charge for a polished, fast-paced improv show inspired by true stories from the cast and audience! Saturday, August 17th at 7pm at the Happier Valley Comedy Theater (1 Mill Valley Rd, Hadley, on rte.9). Tickets: $13 online and at the door.
PEACH PARTY: Celebrating 10 Years of Youth Programming at the Academy of Music
In keeping with the theme of the 2020 AOMYP 10th anniversary production of James and the Giant Peach, Jr., we are throwing a PEACH PARTY at Park Hill Orchard! The event will feature a performance with a combination of youth performers and songs from the last 10 years, face painting, fun photo op's, peach themed treats, and of course, you can experience Park Hill's "Art In the Orchard" walking sculpture trail which winds through the fruit gardens of the orchard! All proceeds to go benefit the Academy of Music Theatre Youth Program.
Tickets are $10 each (plus online fees).
All proceeds go to the Academy of Theatre Youth Program.
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Park Hill Orchard
82 Park Hill Rd | Easthampton, MA | 01027
Sunday, August 18, 2019 11am - 1pm
CitySpace presents Have a Seat Cabrito
Sunday, August 18 at 6:00 PM
Luthiers Co-op
Join this late-summer party and fundraiser for Old Town Hall!
Luthier's Co-op and CitySpace are throwing a party that's not for kids but does celebrate baby goats and late-summer with swing music, specialty drinks made with Luthier's Co-op house spirit — Cabrito (goatling) tequila — and a donation toward the second floor of Old Town Hall.
Through ticket purchases of Have a Seat Cabrito, CitySpace is looking to match a generous donation from Sage Meadow Farm that they raised through Caprine Vinyasa (yoga with baby goats) classes.
Sage Meadow Farm, a small family farm located in Easthampton MA owned by Joe and Stan McCoy, made a donation towards CitySpace's Old Town Hall second floor renovation project. CitySpace needs your ticket purchase to the party in order to double this donation!
Have A Seat Cabrito, also launches CitySpace's campaign to sell 375 chairs to the community. Before the end of 2020, CitySpace seeks donations to name all of the chairs that will be located on the second floor of Old Town Hall's future performing arts and community space. Catch-up with your friends and neighbors for this fun late-summer bash in support of the future of the arts in Easthampton.
CH'CHUNK will be serving up classic swing and Americana music with a modern twist. Luthier's will be offering a menu of specialty drinks made with Cabrito tequila and light fare will be served. Cash bar.
Tickets will be available at the door (while they last).
Happier Valley Comedy presents The Happier Valley Championship
In this competitive comedy show, two teams of improvisers face off through scenes and games to see who can win the ultimate prize: an old trophy we found in someone's attic. Saturday, August 24th at 7pm at the Happier Valley Comedy Theater (1 Mill Valley Rd, Hadley, on rte.9). Tickets: $13 online and at the door.
CitySpace presents Tours of the Second Floor of Easthampton's Old Town Hall
September 14 at 6:00 PM
October 5 at 7:00 PM
October 12 at 6:00 PM
and possibly other additional dates
Join us on a tour of the second floor of Old Town Hall. Whether you're headed to Art Walk Easthampton or off to one Easthampton's fine restaurants like Galaxy or Coco & The Cellar Bar, join us for a guided walk through of the second floor of Old Town Hall.
Tour is free and open to the public.
Learn more about the project cityspaceeasthampton.org/transformation
Free - no reservations necessary, but you can RSVP to a Facebook event.
Hampshire College Theatre Program Manager
TYPE/DEPARTMENT:
Administrator in Interdisciplinary Arts
SEARCH STATUS:
Searching for Candidates - Accepting Applications
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Hampshire College, an independent, innovative liberal arts institution and member of the Five College consortium, is accepting applications for a theatre program manager. The Theatre Program celebrates the voices of students who are POC, queer, from diverse genders, economic backgrounds, and abilities - and all young theatre makers whose work challenges cultural norms, engages with social change, crosses boundaries of form, and reaches for excellence in craft.
The Hampshire theatre program manager (TPM) is a unique combination of technical director and production manager. The TPM is responsible for supervising and mentoring students, use of theatre spaces, and managing and advising the production portion of the theatre program. The TPM advises, instructs, and mentors students in theatre management and technical theatre practices; supervises and manages budgets; maintains equipment; and implements the program's production policies. The TPM monitors the safe use of theatre facilities and equipment. This position hires and supervises work study students, and oversees the costume shop supervisor.
A bachelor's degree with five years of related experience is required. Successful candidate must have in-depth knowledge of theatrical production and management procedures, and safe theatrical building practices. Applicants must possess an active commitment to mentoring undergraduate students while maintaining a positive and supportive educational environment. Particular emphasis is placed on working within a small, intensely collaborative program of faculty and students with a strong emphasis on student work. Occasionally the TMP will support faculty course related showcases, and guest artists presentations. Candidate must be able to lift up to 25 lbs. Work schedule may include evenings and weekends. A commitment to working with people from diverse backgrounds is essential.
This is a full time, benefited position. We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits. Please submit your cover letter, resume and names/phone numbers of three professional references, and a link to a digital portfolio via our website at http://jobs.hampshire.edu/
www.hampshire.edu
Hampshire College is an equal opportunity institution, committed to diversity and inclusion in education and employment.
Hampshire College Technical Director for Music and Dance
Administrator in Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies
Hampshire College, an independent, innovative, liberal arts institution and member of the Five College consortium, is accepting applications for a technical director for music and dance.
The technical director for music and dance (TD) provides technical and production support for Hampshire's Music and Dance programs. Duties include maintaining and operating sound and lighting equipment in both the music and dance performance spaces; overseeing rehearsal and performance schedules as well as each program's budgets, purchasing needs, and publicity; and collaborating with the Five College Dance Production Office and allied offices. In addition to supervising work-study students in both programs, the technical director will oversee music and dance performances as well as technical and dress rehearsals including student productions; train student crews and stage managers; supervise video and/or audio documentation for events; maintain the regular operation of the building, facilities, equipment, and musical instruments; and provide technical support as needed for music and dance faculty. The TD will serve as liaison for special projects such as building renovation and maintenance, and will monitor the safe use of the Music and Dance facilities and equipment. The TD will also advise, instruct, and mentor college age students in the field of sound/recording theory and practices.
A bachelor's degree (preferably in one or more of the performing arts) and three years of job-related experience is required. A qualified candidate must possess excellent organizational and relevant computer skills, initiative, flexibility, and willingness to learn. Also required is in-depth knowledge, training, and work experience of audio and lighting equipment, operations and procedures, including audio engineering, technical theater, theatrical lighting and recording technologies, as well as production management. The TD must have expertise in sound engineering; an ability to offer instruction on recording and sound theory; and be able to effectively mentor students to carry out comprehensive projects. The TD must stay continually engaged with research and practice in all aspects of this field. Qualified candidates must be able to to troubleshoot, repair, and maintain lighting, sound systems, projection equipment and other production-related equipment; organize and communicate complex production details; direct and manage workers of various capacities and skill levels; possess professional ability as an audio engineer for live performance mixing and to operate theatrical equipment; and make necessary judgments to capture professional quality result. The TD candidate should be well versed in workplace and theatrical equipment safety. Candidate must be able to lift a minimum of 25 lbs. A commitment to working with people from diverse backgrounds is essential.
This is a full time benefited position with a work schedule that is primarily during the afternoons, evenings, and occasional weekends. We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits program. Please submit your cover letter, resume and names/phone numbers of three professional references via our website at https://jobs.hampshire.edu/
Springfield College Theater seeking Scenic Designer/Technical Director
Springfield Colllege scene shop and Fuller Arts Center theater
The Theater Program at Springfield College invites applicants for a position as Scenic Designer/Technical Director for the Springfield College Theater. The program produces one play each semester, and the position is contracted on a per production fee basis. To apply, please contact Professor Martin Shell, Chair of the Visual and Performing Arts department, at mshell@springfieldcollege.edu, with a letter of interest, CV, and references.
SCARLET SOCK FOUNDATION BEGINS GRANT CYCLE
Non-profit seeks to promote social-justice theater with $500 and $1,000 grants to qualifying theater companies and individuals
The Scarlet Sock Foundation is currently accepting grant applications. Theater companies and individuals with a social-justice focus are encouraged to apply online at scarletsock.org. Social-justice theater is a tool for promoting awareness of socially relevant topics. It's a platform for the expression of individual differences and a catalyst for discussion for community members who fee marginalized and/or stigmatized. Companies whose work will include this focus will be considered for grants in the amount of either $500 or $1,000.
Children and/or young adults (ages 5-18) who are interested in attending theater arts camps, workshops, conferences, or other theater-related programs but are not able to attend because of financial need are encouraged to apply for individual grants.
Theater companies who receive Scarlet Sock Foundation grants will be invited to share their projects at the foundation's annual gala in 2020.
The Vintage Cellar East
We are a large vintage mall in The Keystone Mill in Easthampton, MA. Check us out if you are a local playhouse or theatre looking to rent props or even buy props for period pieces that can be reused.
Please feel free to email or call 413 977 1978.
Real Live Theatre presents Choreographing Intimacy: a one-day intensive for all theatre practitioners
August 17 at 10:00 AM
45 Amherst Road, Sunderland MA 01375
"Intimacy Choreography" is a relatively new concept, having emerged out of a need to protect actors from unsafe working conditions and blurred boundaries. It is an important practice not only for the mental, physical, and emotional health of actors, but also for the experience of the audience: the more safe and grounded the performers, the more electric the scene. Utilizing techniques from multiple disciplines, including yoga, dance, and theater, Ellen and Toby will guide participants through a safe and specific process to develop choreography that feels motivated and appropriate for characters and situation, as well as authentic and dynamic in terms of external behaviors.
•As a performer, the take away will include language with which to speak to your director and co-actors and tools to create safe working conditions when there aren't any.
•As a director, teacher, or choreographer, you will learn how to build a safe environment, lead exercises to create trust within that environment, and utilize specific skills for analyzing and staging intimate moments.
•As an arts administrator, you will learn best practices for ensuring safe working conditions for your employees.
Check out the website for all the logistics and to register. Register by July 20 and receive $25 off the workshop cost!
Email Ellen and Toby with any questions.
Theater Improvisation Classes for Children and Teens
Wednesdays for Middle Schoolers-3:00-5:00
Thursdays for Elementary ages-3:30-5:00
Starting the Week of September 11th at the Florence Civic Center(next to the Lilly Library)
For more information: contact Heidi Haas at 413-584-5562 or Heidi_Haas@comcast.net
We learn theater games like Stirring the Beans, Late for Work and What are you Doing? Plus many more. Kids will have opportunities to create original characters and develop skits with their scene partners. Improv is great for building social skills and self-confidence.
Submit your workshop or class or audition or performance or job or any other theatre opportunity here!
Pioneer Valley Theatre Companies
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Arena Civic Theatre
Black Cat Theater
Chester Theatre Company
Cold Spring Community Theatre
Double Edge Theatre
Eggtooth Productions
Exit 7 Players
Franklin County Youth Theater
Ghost Light Theater
Greenfield Community College's Theater Department
Hampshire Shakespeare Company
Happier Valley Comedy
Ja'Duke Center for the Performing Arts
K and E Theater Group
Ko Theater Works/Ko Festival of Performance
New Century Theatre
No Theater
PaintBox Theatre
Panopera
Pauline Productions
Real Live Theatre
Red Thread Theater
Royal Frog Ballet
Serious Play Theatre Ensemble
Silverthorne Theater
Smith College Department of Theatre
St. Michael's Players
Starlight's Youth Theatre, Inc.
Strident Theatre
TheatreTruck
Turbulent Times Theater
UMass Theatre Guild
Valley Light Opera
Westfield Theatre Group
Wilbraham United Players
Pioneer Valley Theatre News August 8, 2019


Prince Albert police were called to the 1200-block of 17th Street West on February 20th at 6:40pm.
Police arrived to find a 50-year-old man in critical condition. He was rushed to hospital where he died of his injuries. The victim's name will not be released at this time.
A 36-year-old female has been charged with Second Degree Murder, and is scheduled to appear in court on Friday February 22nd, 2019.
Prince Albert Police said that on Wednesday, August 16, 2017, Police attended to a residence located on 800 Block 17 Street West. At the scene police found the body of a deceased male.
The victim has been identified as 25 year old Duane Brett Ledoux. Police have not released the cause of death, only saying that the death of Ledoux was a homicide.
RCMP were called to the Saskatchewan Penitentiary on June 7th after an inmate was found unresponsive in his cell, and could not be revived by EMS.
The victim has been identified as Christopher Van Camp, 37. Van Camp was serving a five year 5 month sentence on a armed robbery charge.
Tyler Vandewater 28 has been charged with the second degree murder in the death of Christopher Van Camp. The cause of death has not been released at this time.
Prince Albert police responded to a call for assistance at a home on March 22nd at around 1:20am. Police arrived at the 300 block of Ninth Street E to assist Parkland Ambulance paramedics with an unresponsive male.
Despite life saving efforts, Damian Ballantyne 34 died from his injuries.
Police arrested two people that were known to Ballantyne, however no charges have been laid.
Police have launched a homicide investigation after responding to reports of gunshots and finding a 23 year old Prince Albert man dead on January 9th. The un-named man was found dead at his 1st Avenue West apartment building.
An autopsy is scheduled for January 12th.


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The Girl Before star Jessica Plummer on representing diversity on-screen: 'Growing up, I thought beautiful meant looking like Cinderella'
GLAMOUR caught up with the star of BBC One's must-see psychological thriller.
By Francesca Specter
DWGH Photography - The Photography Foundation Stylist: Georgia Medley Glam: Nadia Altinbas
The Girl Before is an upcoming BBC One psychological drama centred around a mysterious, ultra-minimalist house built by an architect, and its two successive female tenants, Emma (played by Jessica Plummer) and Jane (played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw) – who are both victims of trauma. Which, initially, is a role hard to reconcile with the infectiously-smiley, energetic ray of sunshine that is actor Jessica Plummer, whose leading role in the hotly-anticipated show is the reason we're speaking today, via Zoom.
The four-part television adaptation of JP Delaney's novel of the same title, directed by Killing Eve's Lisa Brühlmann, is Jessica's most high-profile acting role yet. But there are three good reasons you might be familiar with her already. The first, from her time as one fourth of girl band, Neon Jungle, who performed their hit 'Trouble' alongside Taylor Swift at the 2013 Victoria's Secret show. Or perhaps you'll recognise her from her role in Eastenders, playing domestic abuse victim Chantelle Atkins between 2019-2020.
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But if both Jessica's pop music and soap opera fame passed you by, you might know her from 2020's I'm A Celebrity…, where she did a six-week stint before being voted out. Her appearance was made memorable by her shrewd tactics to evade the reality show's somewhat-passé 'shower scenes' by forgoing a swimming costume in the open-air shower and going naked instead, correctly reasoning that producers wouldn't be able to broadcast the footage.
Today, Jessica's wearing a red hoodie in a shade not unlike the trademark I'm A Celeb... garb, while she's make-up free and her hair is scraped back in a ponytail. Even when dressed casually and off-duty, she has the kind of beauty that would make you stop in the street (fittingly, Jessica was scouted for Neon Jungle while out shopping in London, aged 20). Although we're talking first thing in the morning – and no doubt Jessica was up even earlier with her five-year-old daughter, Noa, whom she co-parents with her former partner – she is upbeat and excited ahead of the release of The Girl Before this month, happily reminiscing about the time spent filming the series in purpose-built studios in Bristol.
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By Rebecca Fearn
She describes the period of "some of her best moments": "We were quite a small cast – so we were all tight-knit. Once restrictions were lifted [filming began in March 2021, a month before the lifting of some lockdown restrictions] we were able to spend time together within the guidelines. Honestly, I had some of the best moments ever in the months that we recorded. I'm completely in love with Bristol, too."
It wouldn't be *too* much of a leap to suggest Jessica's happiness is linked – at least in part – to her rumoured romance with actor Ben Hardy, who plays her on-screen boyfriend in The Girl Before. The pair, both former Eastenders stars although at separate times, haven't publicly acknowledged a romantic relationship. However, they are believed to have begun dating around June 2021, and in late summer this year took a holiday together to Croatia, reported The Sun – which was chronicled in a series of photographs on both of their Instagram accounts. And while Jessica does not explicitly confirm the relationship when I ask about it, she doesn't deny it either – and she does share that, despite the actors' shared Eastenders acting past, they met for the very first time on set of The Girl Before.
Steering away from relationship speculation, it's clear that playing the leading role has been a source of creative fulfilment for Jessica – who, despite her sunny off-screen personality, is no stranger to challenging parts. Eastenders fans will remember her emotive performance as character Chantelle Atkins, who died at the hands of her abusive husband. Jessica was widely credited by charities and legal firms for her performance, which brought awareness to the plight of domestic violence victims.
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And now she's stepping into yet another difficult role. In some respects, Emma – the character Jessica plays in The Girl Before – has a personality not dissimilar to Jessica's own: she's vivacious, confident, and fun-loving. Yet, she's suffering from trauma, experiencing a troubling flashback in the first moments of the show – bowling Jessica yet another highly complex character portrayal to grapple with. Having been lucky enough to watch a preview screener of the first episode of this four-parter, I can say she's made a serious success of it.
In conversation with GLAMOUR, Jessica opens up about her on and off-screen process for approaching taxing acting roles, plus how she worked with director Lisa Brühlmann (who, as anyone who's watched Killing Eve will know, is all too familiar with directing complex female parts) to embody her character. We also discuss extreme minimalism – one of the programme's central themes – and why Jessica is convinced she could never live in a "minimalist dream house".
I've just watched the first episode of The Girl Before, and you've clearly succeeded in mastering yet another taxing role. How did you go about approaching this performance?
As an actor, it's just nice to be able to feel like you can be trusted to do something like that. But it's definitely challenging – and I worked with so many amazing people to help me get to where I got in the performance that you see. I worked with a therapist to help me unlock certain things – to understand some of the trauma that my character would have gone through. I also worked with an acting coach called Giles, over Zoom, who helped me break down all the different scenes. Then there was our director, Lisa. She was incredible. She felt like my best friend, and supported me the whole time. So all those elements fitted together, and made it work.
How about off-screen? Was there a certain amount of work you needed to do after your performances, to come down from playing that part?
I know a lot of actors have their own techniques, in terms of staying within the character. For me, when playing heavy stuff like that… as much as I want to be in it and stay true to the character, I step out of character the second that they say cut. So I guess I just take myself out of it. But I had amazing support from Lisa, and from my friends and family – to make sure I was OK and to have those conversations if I needed to.
Yours and Gugu's characters closely resemble one another – and that's made clear from the moment you both come on screen, with parallel scenes. Did you make an effort to consciously mirror each other in your performance, too?
No – because I didn't want to get stuck in that trap of copying someone else. Obviously when I was cast, it was because they needed someone to resemble Gugu [who was cast first]. But I didn't want anything that I knew about [Gugu's character] Jane to influence Emma's journey and how I approached playing her. My character's action is set three years prior to Jane, so I didn't need to acknowledge her existence. The characters share physical similarities, and they share the similarity in that they both want to live in this house, but they're actually quite different actually in terms of personality. After consulting with Lisa – who had been in touch with the The Girl Before author, JP Delaney [who served as a producer on the show] – I decided not to read the novel before filming, and to go off the scripts instead. I then ignored the parts of the script which featured Jane. And we also weren't on set together at all (because we're in different time frames) apart from filming the first scene where we're both walking into the house.
Here is the first look of Channel 4's Screw — the new gritty prison drama featuring stars from Derry Girls, Line Of Duty and I May Destroy You
Be prepared to be hooked!
By Sagal Mohammed and Sheilla Mamona
It's interesting that it was such a conscious decision to ignore Jane's character – especially given those opening scenes that juxtapose separate clips of you entering the house for the first time, which creates a mirroring effect. It's impossible not to pick up on your similarities.
That was the first day we walked on set and saw the house that they had built… I think that everyone's reaction is going to be quite similar. Even my own reaction as Jess would be quite similar to my character Emma's. They built the whole house inside a warehouse. It was completely jaw-dropping – breathtaking. Those stairs!
I was going to ask about the staircase, actually – because I couldn't take my eyes off it when I watched the first episode. In the book, Jane describes it as: 'the most crazily minimalist staircase I've ever seen. It's like something hewn into a cliff face: floating steps of open, unpolished stone, with no handrail or visible means of support.' Are they as scary as they look?
We weren't even allowed to go up them! When you watch it, every time you see somebody go upstairs, it's either one of us wearing a harness underneath our costume or a stunt double, because otherwise we weren't allowed to go up past the third step.
That's an amazing behind-the-scenes detail. Talking of minimalism, the action revolves around an obsessively controlling architect, who interviews prospective tenants to see if they pass his criteria for living in his minimalist dream house as he sees fit. What would you have been like, living in that house?
I definitely wouldn't have passed the interview stage. I look the part, but that's it – I'm far too disorganised. Actually, I wouldn't classify someone who's messy necessarily because I see it as organised. If you ask me where something is, I might have to dig under a few things, but it will be exactly where I thought it was… But I couldn't ever go full One Folgate Street [the name of the house the show's action revolves around], with its big empty open spaces. I need some unnecessary things. Like candles and photographs and cushions – stuff like that.
In the rental application, the architect asks prospective tenants to list the three essential items that they can't live without. What would yours be?
Oh, I love this question! I would have to say my phone. Then, peanut butter, because you can have it in everything: sweet dishes, savoury dishes, smoothies. It just makes everything taste 10 times better. And… a hair band. Because they're essential, honestly. Although I always lose my hair bands. Think about how many hair bands you've bought in your life...where do they go?
Inventing Anna: We finally have a trailer (and a release date!) for Netflix's biopic about Anna Delvey AKA the fake heiress who conned New York
Who IS she?!
By Annabelle Spranklen and Fiona Ward
I think there's a planet housing them somewhere. Along with socks, and biros. Finally... obviously, for this part, your ethnicity was directly related to the part. But in general, at a time where we're having a lot of conversation about diversity and representation in the acting world, together with so many industries, how do you find navigating an acting career as someone who is mixed race?
Personally, it's not something that has got in the way. And I feel like we're at a point in time where I'm often getting castings that don't state any specific ethnicity, because it just doesn't matter. But it is important to make sure diversity is reflected in the media. Everybody's making an effort to let people be represented – much more so than a few years ago. As a mother with a five-year-old daughter, that's so important for me, because I remember growing up thinking that, in order to be beautiful, you need to look like Cinderella. Which, looking back, is really sad. I would hate the idea of my daughter thinking that as she grows up. But now, she has role models to look at, like Moana [a Disney character of Polynesian descent], who is beautiful, strong and independent. So, things are changing. Which is awesome.
The Girl Before starts on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on 19 December at 9pm.
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The stillbirth and neonatal death charity which operates throughout the UK, supporting anyone affected by the death of a baby and promoting research to reduce the loss of babies' lives.
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Guernsey Bereavement Service
Offer one to one emotional support to adults who are struggling with a loss. They also promote awareness, in the community, of the nature of grief.
http://www.guernseybereavementservice.com
Guernsey Postnatal Depression Support Group
Provide support to women and their families who are suffering from post natal depression and increase awareness to reduce any stigma that may remain about suffering from or receiving help for PND.
http://guernseypnd.org
Philip's Footprints
Provide baby loss memory boxes in Jersey and Guernsey.
http://www.philipsfootprints.org
The Ivy Trust
The Trust is dedicated to providing support for parents in three main areas including personal support for parents, maintaining the Ivy Room on Loveridge Ward and providing them with equipment to ensure the most vulnerable babies have the best possible chance of survival and the Ivy Remembrance Garden in the hospital grounds.
http://www.theivytrust.org
The Lullaby Trust
Provides specialist support for bereaved families and promotes expert advice on safer baby sleep.
http://www.lullabytrust.org.uk
A Barnardo's service which aims to enable children and young people experiencing a bereavement or serious illness in the family to come to terms with their situation and move positively forward with their lives by improving their emotional wellbeing.
http://thehub.gg/our-support.html
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Q: Entity Framework 5: Get List of Foreign Keys on an Entity Just a quick question on EF 5 code-first. How do I, at run-time, access the list of foreign keys that exists for a particular entity please?
Thanks in advance

A: You could iterate through the child collection on the parent entity and save the id from each of the child entities.

A: I think the proper way to go around this without hacks is to use the Metadata Workspace.
A few quick pointers:

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*Use the ObjectContext property of an instance of your derived DbContext to retrieve its wrapped ObjectContext instance.  From there you can use the MetadataWorkspace property to retrieve the MetadataWorkSpace instance.

*I would then look at one of the overloads of the GetType method (for example) to retrieve the EdmType for your entity.

*Once you have the EdmType, it's just a matter of looking up the properties of the entity it represents using its own MetadataProperties property.  You may filter each MetadataProperty object in the ReadOnlyMetadataCollection by looking at their BuiltInTypeKind, which value should be BuiltInTypeKind.NavigationProperty.

There may be other ways to do it, for example by somehow retrieving a collection of EdmMember objects for your entity, and then looking at their CLR Type by using GetType.  One of the possible types is NavigationProperty.
Disclaimer:  Didn't test this.

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This year Royal Talens chose to send a digital card to their business relations expressing their wishes for 2017. The budget that would have been involved in printing and distribution was donated to the Non Profit Paint a Future on behalf of the Royal Talens Foundation.
In 2014 disadvantaged children in Madagascar drew their dreams together with the artist Sammy Rakoto and Paint a Future. Then, Chichi Reyes, incorporated some of these paintings into his own work. You can see the result here. This year Royal Talens bought this painting and with the proceeds Sammy is building a community centre for these children.