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CREATIVE SECRETS Kate Willis-Crowley
In search of inspiration, Caroline Deacon invites established writers and illustrators to tell us about their creative space. This month features Kate Willis-Crowley, also known as Inky Willis.
Kate is a writer and illustrator of humorous fiction for young readers. Her school-based Scribble Witch series was recently published by Hodder (Hachette) and was greatly inspired by Kate's other passion, working as a primary school teaching assistant. When Kate isn't juggling her writing, drawing, Skillshare teaching, and school-based work, she can be found fossil-hunting with her kids on the East Kent coast. Previous publishers include Puffin, Chicken House, Faber and Templar.
Kate Willis-Crowley
Images of Kate's cats "helping"
Cover of Scribble Witch
Tell us about your creative space.
Having kids, pets and multiple jobs means I'm limited on space and time. Essentially, when I find myself with a spare five minutes, I want to be able to pick up my drawing or writing straightaway. So my creative space can be anywhere, just so long as I have access to the Word app on my phone, or Procreate on my iPad. I've got used to writing in queues, in waiting rooms, at bus stops. I'm not convinced this approach is entirely healthy, as it can mean switching between reality and imagination dizzyingly often – but I'm surviving the chaos so far.
Kate working at home
Your creative tools – what are they?
For writing I use a combination of tools: pen and paper, post-it notes, my phone (avoid unless you want RSI), my tablet (same re the RSI!) and, when possible, my laptop. Word 365 has been a bit of a life saver for me, as I switch between devices so frequently.
I also have a copy of a really useful book called Save the Cat Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody, which I use to help shape my plots. Even though my chapter books aren't novel-length, the plot points still apply. I'd absolutely recommend this to new writers.
For illustration, I work in a combination of traditional and digital mediums. For black and white illustrations, I tend to use the Procreate app on iPad. For colour work, I still love traditional watercolour, but these days I do a fair amount of digital nipping and tucking.
Do you have a routine?
I work as a teaching assistant, which is incredibly inspiring – but, at the same time, it massively limits the amount of time I can spend on creative work. In other words I don't have much of a creative routine, more just lots of clawing for spare minutes here and there.
I have two nights a week earmarked for writing and drawing, which is no way near enough. So at other times, when my kids are absorbed in activities, I'll work alongside them. Sometimes my youngest will pull up her sketchbook and we'll sit together drawing.
Do you need particular prompts to get started?
I don't need anything specific to get started, but I do have a go-to activity for getting unstuck with my storytelling, which is walking. Walking is honestly like a wonder-drug for the creative part of my brain.
What is the best creative advice you've been given?
The advice which sticks in my head is to view other writers and illustrators as colleagues not competitors, so to find joy in other people's successes. The alternative is a world of jealous misery.
A related bit of advice would be to find your creative community. This is preaching to the converted, I guess, as we're all SCBWI members – but even so, sometimes I have to remind myself to reconnect with others, to participate in crit groups, to support and listen.
What advice would you like to give to writers/illustrators who are trying to get established?
Be tenacious. I could offer loads of advice related to reading, networking, honing skills (all important stuff). But above all, keep going. Some are lucky enough to take giant leaps into the publishing world, most take lots of small steps with plenty of hurdles along the way – all routes are valid.
What was your favourite book as a child?
I loved Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising sequence, which I'm rereading right now, as it happens.
Favourite 'how to' book about writing and/or illustrating?
Stephen King's On Writing is excellent – a mix of memoir and expert storytelling advice. It's the first book I read on the craft of writing, and it's absolutely bursting with great advice and insight.
What must you have at hand in order to be able to create?
Haha, I would love to be a diva-style storyteller who refused to work without Jaffa Cakes – but no. I mean, I do have an unhealthy caffeine dependency, but I like to think I could still work without it. Maybe I'm delusional.
Planner or pantser?
I plan, always, because I need the reassurance that my story is going somewhere good, and that the resolution won't fall flat. But inevitably the plan will change a few times before I'm done. The more I get to know my characters the more likely I am to tweak or change plans to keep their story arcs strong.
What inspired you to first start writing/illustrating?
I studied Fine Art at Reading University, where I became more and more interested in the narrative aspects of painting. So I made the financially questionable decision to stay in education, but shift my focus to illustration. I did an MA at the Royal College of Art, which allowed me space to explore illustrative storytelling. I cottoned on pretty quickly that if I wanted to choose what I illustrated, I had to be writing too, so I started honing my skills in that area too, and that's just continued ever since.
And why children?
I think initially storytelling for children was just the obvious choice because of the illustration potential. Also, I started working in a school just after starting my MA, and got a big kick out of matching kids with books – especially kids with barriers to reading. It's the best feeling, seeing someone fall in love with a story, because suddenly their world opens up with possibilities – what other books might be out there waiting for them? Anyway, I liked the idea that my books could do that for someone one day.
Marketing material for Scribble Witch
You can find out more about Kate here or on Twitter or Instagram.
*Header by and all pictures courtesy of Kate Willis-Crowley
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Caroline Deacon lives in Edinburgh and is the author of several childcare books. She now writes MG and YA and is agented by Lindsay Fraser of Fraser Ross Associates, Edinburgh. Find her on Twitter @writingdilemmas and at www.carolinedeacon.com
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Republicans Kill Three Election Security Bills In A Single Day
On Tuesday, Republicans in the Senate managed to block three separate election security bills brought by Democrats, breaking a new record for showing their complete disdain for the safety of our elections. Mitch McConnell wants outside interference – whether it is from a foreign country or a hacker in the U.S. – because it always seems to benefit the Republicans. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.
Yesterday in the Senate, Democrats attempted to pass three election security bills, three bills, one package through some, you know, obscure Senate rule where they're allowed to bring all three at once if they get a unanimous vote on it, blah, blah, blah. But Senator Republican, Senator Marsha Blackburn, blocked all three. Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee single handedly destroyed three bills that would have helped protect our elections as we head into the 2020 election, two of the bills were focused on reporting the, uh, influence of foreign countries on our election, which to kind of put it in a nutshell a little bit. Basically what these bills would have done was that if somebody had an offer of foreign election interference, it's set up the channels for them to report this. And then the, uh, efforts to stop it. Marshall Blackburn said, Oh, heck no, we ain't doing that. And then the third one, one of the big things it included was that it wouldn't have allowed voting machines, electronic voting machines from being hooked up to the internet.
And Blackburn again on that one said, nah, not happening. Hook them up to the internet. What's the worst that could happen? Right. And her reasoning for it shows that Marsha Blackburn is apparently one of the dumbest sitting senators in this country. Uh, she said we're not going to vote for these because the Democrats are only putting them up there so that we will vote against them or they know we'll vote against him. I think she said, because they know we'll vote against them and then they're just gonna use it for their campaigns. Okay. Marsha. Um, I don't know if you understand, but that's not a reason to not vote for a bill. You, you didn't offer any substance as to why you didn't like these bills. Were they too expensive? I did. They not go far enough? Did they go too far? No. You can't just say I'm voting against it because they want me to vote against it because they're going to use it for their campaigns.
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Kanye West's assaultive new album.
By Sasha Frere-Jones
"Yeezus" is brashly erratic, sometimes switching sounds and textures without maintaining tempo. West is daring d.j.s to deal with songs that leap about, rhythmically and dynamically.
Illustration by Daniel Adel
Why are so many people fond of being mad at Kanye West? Is it his lack of control, his self-absorption, his boastfulness? Complaining about a surfeit of ego in a celebrity performer is like going to Barcelona and bitching that the locals eat dinner too late. We have no shortage of well-trained pop stars who never depart from the promo script, plugging sponsors without being prodded. It's a tonic to hear a celebrity talk so freely. (In 2010, Jonah Weiner created a profile of West, for Slate, mainly by assembling his tweets—"I jog in Lanvin," "Fur pillows are hard to actually sleep on"—and the result was far more resonant than the usual hour-in-the-lobby puff piece.) In a recent Times interview, West compared himself to Steve Jobs, called himself a cultural "nucleus," and then claimed that wearing a kilt proves he isn't vain. That's not exactly a coherent argument, but West is so committed to exploring his unfiltered self that he doesn't mind making mistakes in public. In an age when public-relations firms are trying to annex journalism as yet another branding tool, it's a form of rebellion to give one weird interview after another, failing once again to project the proper bland professionalism.
After West interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, declaring that Beyoncé's "Single Ladies" video was better than Taylor Swift's "You Belong with Me" clip, pundits and fans acted as if he had danced the Charleston on Duke Ellington's coffin. But West's comment was goofy and accurate, and it added a jolt to a pro-forma industry spectacle. If you chase artists like West off the stage, you're facing a long and dull show.
On June 10th, West held a messy listening session for his new album, "Yeezus," on the loading dock at Milk Studios, on West Fourteenth Street. He announced that his new business plan is to "make better music." Because we've come to expect tortured logic from him, it took me a moment to remember that this is the goal of most performers. For a moment, though, it sounded radical.
West wore a gold chain tucked inside a gray T-shirt and sang along to every one of his lyrics. Sports and music luminaries were present, some of them more engaged than others. Jay-Z and Beyoncé stood against a wall; he faced the street while she danced, with increasing enthusiasm. The producers Timbaland and DJ Khaled listened closely, watching West and smiling. The music was played at such a high volume that West defeated the entire idea of a V.I.P. event. It was a rainy night, and anybody with an umbrella could simply stand across the street and hear the album—in fact, probably better than those of us inside, where the music was so loud that it didn't always register as music.
Heard at normal levels, "Yeezus" becomes an illuminating counterpoint to "Random Access Memories," the new album by the French duo Daft Punk. (They are friends of West's, and worked on several of his new songs.) "Random Access Memories" is a celebration of music that Daft Punk loved as kids, a reconstruction of the pop landscape of the late seventies, when albums were often lush and used detail to soothe and entertain. "Yeezus" is also technically breathtaking, but it has the opposite effect: its many flashes are the sonic equivalent of interrogation lamps, not disco balls. "Yeezus" charges out of the gate, sometimes switching sounds and textures without bothering to maintain tempo, then jerking back into position and rattling forward. There's very little fat. "Yeezus" is a fiercely edited, assaultive, and noisy work, concerned less with grandeur than with intensity. It doesn't sound like anything else on the charts.
Some critics have already tried to link "Yeezus" to electronic dance music, or E.D.M., but that genre rarely moves in the brashly erratic manner of West's album. Others, more precisely, have said that its sound echoes aggressive rock acts from the past, such as Nine Inch Nails. West, for his part, recently characterized himself as a "black New Wave artist." He's not exactly rejecting forms like hip-hop or E.D.M., but he is daring d.j.s to deal with songs that leap about, dynamically and rhythmically.
"Yeezus" is ambitious, but it's blessedly free of the longueurs that attend so many Great Albums. Twenty years from now, West's previous records will remain important, but a new generation may first gravitate to the lean vibrancy of this one. Pop musicians constantly claim not to give a fuck, and West used just those words before he started the playback at Milk Studios. He means it, though, and it could be said that "Yeezus" is his most satisfyingly narcissistic record. We get none of his soggy and insincere apologies ("Runaway") or hemmed-in spiritual set pieces ("Jesus Walks"). The new album is all id, and that makes it easier to trust.
West has suggested that he may not release a single from "Yeezus," and from an artistic standpoint the impulse is not perverse. The album is so tonally unified that it comes across as one very long single—an extended thought, coughed up quickly. There are few steady drumbeats, and West can't seem to resist pausing the sound and then bringing it back from silence; he never wants you to forget that he is standing over the boards. This is music with a lot of empty space: it consists largely of profane rapping over wildly distorted bass lines, which often serve as the only melodic motifs. When synths do appear, they aren't pretty. On the track "Send It Up," they have the screeching timbre of an air horn; the blaring sound evokes the Prodigy, the English rave group of the mid-nineties.
There are fewer explicit forays into politics than on West's previous albums. "New Slaves," one of the tracks that West performed last month on "Saturday Night Live," seems to be mostly about his battles with critics, and about the kind of record-label executive who thinks that throwing a free Maybach into a contract can undo other injustices. "Blood on the Leaves" samples Nina Simone's recording of the politically charged "Strange Fruit," and turns one of her vocal phrasings into a piercing staccato pulse. Oddly, West's song has nothing to do with lynching or slavery. It's addressed to a former lover: "We could've been somebody / Thought you'd be different 'bout it / Now I know you naughty." The track "I'm in It" is mostly a sexual shopping list, and West will soon find out if his Asian fans think that lines like "eating Asian pussy, all I need is sweet-and-sour sauce" are as clever as he thinks they are.
No, the topic here is Kanye. If the album has a centerpiece, it is "I Am a God." A single sound—a deep bass note or a detuned kick drum, or maybe both—serves as the rhythmic anchor. A queasy synth note enters, just as steady and insistent, and there is an intermittent echoing clang; it's like the "Law & Order" sound effect, but with a more sinister vibe. There is a long break, featuring screeching and heavy breathing, which some poor d.j. will soon try to remix with a party-friendly beat. But the point of the track lies in its opening lyrics. West complains about massages and cars, culminating with a command that makes me smile every time I hear it: "Hurry up with my damn croissants!" The line, like his tweets, is something that only West could deliver with conviction. He is not a god, but, like one, he generates equal amounts of love and hate. ♦
This article appears in the print edition of the June 24, 2013, issue.
Sasha Frere-Jones worked at The New Yorker as a staff writer and pop-music critic for ten years, beginning in 2004.
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Improving the Quality of Life through Smart Cities and Internet of Things Innovation
Jun 11, 2019·7 min read
Sokwoo Rhee, Associate Director, Cyber-Physical Systems Program, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Six years ago, I joined the U.S. federal government as a Presidential Innovation Fellow. The White House established the program to bring in top innovators from the private sector who could develop game-changing projects to enable business opportunities, fuel job growth and save lives. I had over a decade of experience in creating Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and leading a pioneering, venture-backed business. When the opportunity to join the Presidential Innovation Fellow program came around, I couldn't pass it up. It meant using my expertise to contribute to the U.S. economy and the global innovation ecosystem, so I gladly left my home in Boston and moved to Washington, D.C.
The first thing I did as a Presidential Innovation Fellow was tackle, on a scale that I hadn't imagined possible, one of the most important issues in the IoT ecosystem — fragmentation. Stakeholders were isolated from one another and were not communicating regularly, if at all. Working with the White House and NIST, I and my fellow Presidential Innovation Fellow on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Geoff Mulligan, created a groundbreaking program that served as a catalyst for them to collaborate.
The program, named the SmartAmerica Challenge, brought together over 100 small and large organizations from public and private sectors. Working in teams, they looked at major issues and figured out how to develop solutions that would create new businesses, enable new jobs and save lives. The program was a resounding success and culminated in the formation and demonstration of 24 collaborative projects, ranging from autonomous vehicles to an IoT-based smart emergency response system.
Encouraged by the success of the SmartAmerica Challenge, and with the support of NIST's Smart Grid and Cyber-Physical Systems Program, I started the next phase of this journey — the creation of a smart city collaboration and incubation initiative called the Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC). Since its inception in 2014, it has become a major source of innovation for numerous IoT and smart city projects initiated and shared by cities and communities around the globe.
Enabling Innovation: NIST's Global City Teams Challenge
NIST launched this initiative to bring together communities and technology innovators to collaborate on smart city solutions that would be accessible to all because of their reliance on standards-based approaches. The challenge fosters the creation of "action clusters" — partnerships across government, industry and academia — to address city and community goals in areas such as energy, transportation, security, public health and others. Today, the challenge has over 200 action clusters in partnership with over 150 cities and 400 companies, universities and non-profits using cyber-physical systems and IoT technologies to improve the quality of life for community residents.
Applications that are safe, secure, resilient, reliable and privacy-enhancing are essential to effective smart city solutions. Based on 2018–19 rounds of discussions, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T) are co-hosting the GCTC/Smart and Secure Cities and Communities Challenge (SC3) program to highlight best practices for making cybersecurity and privacy integral to the success of smart city projects of all types and scales.
The Opportunity: Smart and Secure Cities and Communities Challenge Expo
The GCTC/SC3 Expo, coming to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., July 10–12, 2019, offers an opportunity to learn about smart city and community success stories and meet leaders in industry, academia, and local, regional and state government eager to collaborate and innovate. Hosted by NIST, DHS S&T and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the expo is anticipated to be the largest U.S. government-hosted smart city event this year, with over 1,500 attendees expected. Admission is free, but registration is required.
The first GCTC Expo was held in 2015 at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. It played host to attendees including the King and Queen of the Netherlands, the U.S. Secretary of Transportation and the Undersecretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and director of NIST. Credit: NIST
Attendees will include a growing international contingent. Last November, at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Singapore, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence announced the U.S.-ASEAN Smart Cities Partnership to help municipal governments advance the digital transformation of urban systems and increase U.S.-ASEAN commercial engagement in the digital economy. Hosted by the U.S. Department of State and the International Trade Administration, officials from more than 20 ASEAN cities will join attendees from across the U.S. and around the world, along with innovators in industry, academia and government.
Expo Focus and Exhibits
Attendees will learn about the latest developments in smart cities and communities. The online agenda features more than 70 speakers, including mayors, industry executives and association leaders. The expo will highlight privacy and cybersecurity for smart cities; smart agriculture, including more efficient food production and movement to market; smart regions, connecting municipalities to regional services for transportation management, disaster response, and environmental quality; and more.
Over 70 exhibitors are expected. The expo will provide space to organizations exhibiting and demonstrating smart city and IoT solutions, with priorities given to action clusters and superclusters. Examples of the scale and scope of innovation to be illustrated by expo exhibitors include the following:
575-HOPE: Hamilton County, Ohio, had 440 heroin overdose deaths in 2018. This action cluster is implementing 575-HOPE, a text messaging platform that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and a staffed call center to connect those struggling with opioid addiction and their caretakers with the help they need.
The Roadbiotics system is being used in Cumberland, Maryland, to collect data on road conditions and needed repairs. Credit: Roadbiotics
Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Road Infrastructure Sustainability: This action cluster is demonstrating the use of "RoadBotics" by the government of Cumberland, Maryland. This system allows road inspectors to use a windshield-mounted smartphone to collect visual data on road conditions for analysis by AI to rate the degree of needed repair. As a recent IEEE Spectrum headline put it, "RoadBotics AI Could Change the Way Cities Maintain Roads."
Secure Cloud Architecture SC3-cpSriA: Smart cities run largely on cloud services. This action cluster, led by the city of Syracuse, New York, is focused on architectural guidelines for security, privacy, data-protective and rights-inclusive cloud services for smart streetlight networks, catch basin monitoring, water metering, public safety and other smart city applications.
Farm to Fork Crop Tracking: This action cluster in Independence, Oregon, is demonstrating real-time monitoring of the movement and storage of highly perishable produce from farm to markets. This initiative uses sensors on individual packages of produce to signal location and conditions, thus reducing waste and ensuring higher quality. This crop tracking could enable a logistics network to connect smaller farmers to aggregate loads for large buyers, providing new markets and increased profitability.
Wabash Heartland Innovation Network: This consortium of 10 counties in north-central Indiana is advancing IoT solutions for farmers and local manufacturers. The action cluster is developing agricultural and manufacturing testbeds, along with workforce education opportunities. The goal is to promote a regional ecosystem that empowers globally competitive businesses to plant and grow in the Wabash Heartland.
It's About People
I am thrilled to work on innovative IoT and smart city and community technologies because they have an unlimited potential to make a positive socioeconomic impact for everyone. How we use technology reflects our humanity. NIST's goal is to foster technology's use in ways that benefit communities and improve the quality of life for all. The Smart and Secure Cities and Communities Challenge Expo offers the opportunity to pursue that goal, from local to global levels. Be a part of that opportunity and join us to make it happen.
This post originally appeared on Taking Measure, the official blog of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on June 11, 2019.
Sokwoo Rhee is the associate director of the Cyber-Physical Systems Program at NIST. He is currently leading the Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC), which aims to create a replicable and scalable model for collaborative incubation and deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) solutions to improve the quality of life in smart cities around the world. He previously served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow on CPS, a program by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He loves working with the best minds across the globe to make the world a better place for future generations.
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Stand straight. Feet are shoulder-width apart. Hold a barbell behind you at arms length. A medium grip (arms are shoulder-width apart, palms facing back) is best for this exercise. You can use wrist wraps for a better grip. This will be your starting position.
Keep your head up. Inhaling, start to squat until your upper thighs are parallel to the floor.
Exhaling, go back up to the starting position pressing with the feet and squeezing the thighs.
Tip: You can also perform this exercise with a small block under the heels of your foot. This helps beginners or those who lack the flexibility to perform the exercise correctly.


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The Pro Life Campaign has responded to the Taoiseach Enda Kenny's comments in which he refused to commit to repealing the 8th Amendment.
"While we acknowledge the fact that the Taoiseach is not giving a commitment to dismantle the 8th Amendment, he cannot downplay the significance of the law he introduced on abortion in 2013," said Cora Sherlock, Deputy Chairperson Pro- Life Campaign.
"Far from being restrictive, it allows for abortion in potentially wide-ranging circumstances and was not based on medical evidence," she added.
RTE News reported on Saturday (12 September 2015) that the Taoiseach said he would not commit to a vote repealing the 8th Amendment without knowing what would replace it.
The Labour party will make repealing the 8th Amendment part of their election manifesto. Cora Sherlock stated in response that the law has served to protect both mother and unborn baby.
On Monday (14 September) the Tánaiste and Labour leader Joan Burton confirmed that repealing the 8th Amendment will be in the manifesto, but she said there would be no preconditions for entering government.
Later on Monday the Labour parliamentary party agreed to a vote transfer pact with Fine Gael.
Fianna Fáil at its Ard Fheis at the end of April voted to oppose any repeal of the 8th Amendment of the Constitution.
Cora Sherlock, Deputy Chairperson Pro- Life Campaign.
In April, PLC Deputy Chairperson, Cora Sherlock, said she was pleased to see the Fianna Fáil members' vote that had "recognised the importance" of the 8th Amendment.
As the discussion over issues heats up in the run-up to the election, the PLC has announced who its keynote speaker for this year's Pro Life Campaign National Conference is.
Congressman Chris Smith is described by PLC as "the shining light on pro-life issues in the US Congress for over 20 years".
As well as writing and championing several laws on the protection of unborn human life, he is the author of three major anti-human trafficking laws and an advocate for children and adults with special needs.
PLC stated that according to the independent watchdog Govtrack, as of January 2015, Mr Smith ranks third among all 435 Members of the House of Representatives over the last two decades in the number of laws he has written which amount to more than three dozen laws.
Mr Smith is to the forefront in holding Planned Parenthood to account over the recent accusations that it has been harvesting the body parts of unborn babies for sale.
Chris Smith, who is 61 years of age, has chaired a number of bipartisan congressional caucuses (working groups) including the Pro-life (32 years), Autism (16 years, co-founder), Alzheimer's (14 years, co-founder), Lyme Disease (10 years, co-founder), Spina Bifida (10 years), Human Trafficking (10 years, co-founder), Refugees (10 years), and Combating Anti-Semitism caucuses, and serves on caucuses on Bosnia, Uganda and Vietnam.
He was elected in 1980, and is in his 18th term in the US House of Representatives, and serves residents in the Fourth Congressional District of New Jersey.
PLC will soon announce the full list of speakers for the Conference which takes place on Saturday 10 October in the RDS Concert Hall, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.


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Home » Expository Songs » Expository Songs from Matthew 8
Expository Songs from Matthew 8
Willing to Heal (Matthew 8:1-3) (1987)
Popularized by Don Francisco
On the shore of Galilee (Matthew 8:1-4)
F. G. Morris
The leper in his painful case (Matthew 8:1-13)
The Leper (Matthew 8:2-3) (1779)
The Leper healed (Matthew 8:2-3)
Come Like the Leper (Matthew 8:2)
A. E. Andrews
Inbred leprosy (Matthew 8:2)
The blood of sprinkling (Matthew 8:2)
I am not worthy, holy Lord (Matthew 8:8)
Henry Williams Baker
A Multitude Comes from the East and the West (Matthew 8:11-12)
Magnus Brostrup Landstad, Peter O. Strömme
Follow On (Matthew 8:19)
William O. Cushing
I Will Follow Thee (Matthew 8:19)
James Elginburg
Thou Didst Leave Thy Throne (Matthew 8:20)
Emily E.S. Elliott
Lyrics | Sheet Music | YouTube
You Did Not Have A Home (Matthew 8:20)
Popularized by Rich Mullins
A little ship was on the sea (Matthew 8:23-27)
Dorothy Ann Thrupp
Asleep in the Bow (Matthew 8:23-27)
When the distress'd Disciples were (Matthew 8:23-27)
Your Cries Have Awoken The Master (Matthew 8:23-27) (2011)
Sonya Isaacs Yeary, Rebecca Isaacs Bowman | Popularized by The Bowling Family
Master, the Tempest Is Raging (Matthew 8:24)
Mary A. Baker and H.R. Palmer
Embarking (Matthew 8:27)
He Calmed the Ocean (Matthew 8:27)
Popularized by Mahalia Jackson
Safe with Jesus in the ship (Matthew 8:27)
The Wind and the Waves (Matthew 8:27) (2005)
Jeff Pearson, Amy Susan Foster | Popularized by David Phelps
What Manner of Man is This (Matthew 8:27)
Sea Walker (Matthew 8:1-4)
Tim Spencer | Popularized by The Statesmen
Free To Go Home (Matthew 8:2)
William Gaither, Gloria Gaither | Popularized by The Collingsworth Family
He Had to Rise (Matthew 8:2)
Rodney Griffin | Popularized by Kingdom Heirs
Make Me Clean (Matthew 8:2)
Charles Naylor
Compassion Hymn (Matthew 8:3) (2008)
Keith Getty, Kristyn Getty, Stuart Townend | Popularized by Keith and Kristyn Getty
Lyrics | Sheet Music | YouTube | Amazon
What's That For a Healer (Matthew 8:5-13)
Kyla Rowland | Popularized by Barry Rowland and Deliverance
Just Say (Matthew 8:8) (2013)
Popularized by Paul Baloche
Say the Word (Matthew 8:8) (1994)
Stuart Townend | Popularized by Stuart Townend
Lyrics | Amazon
Holy Child Who Chose the Hearts of Man (Matthew 8:20) (2004)
Keith Getty, Kristyn Getty | Popularized by Keith and Kristyn Getty
Quietness and assurance (Matthew 8:20)
Be still, my soul: the Lord is on your side (Matthew 8:23-27)
Jane Laurie Borthwick, Katharina Amalia Dorothea von Schlegel
Don't Be Afraid (Matthew 8:23-27)
Roger Bennett, Debbie Bennett | Popularized by The Cathedrals
He'll Calm the Sea (Matthew 8:23-27)
Popularized by Cumberland Quartet
Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me (Matthew 8:23-27)
Master of the Sea (Matthew 8:23-27)
Squire Parsons | Popularized by The Kingsmen
That's Him (Matthew 8:23-27)
Bill Burns | Popularized by The Hoppers
When Through the Torn Sail (Matthew 8:25)
Reginald Heber
The darkness of the night came down (Matthew 8:26)
The Man Who Calmed The Sea (Matthew 8:26) (2011)
Stuart Townend, Gary Sadler | Popularized by Stuart Townend
Ye of Little Faith (Matthew 8:26) (1993)
Popularized by Yolanda Adams


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Author Archives: Oliver Woolley
Article author Oliver Woolley
Oliver is CEO and Co-Founder of ENVESTORS Private Investor Network. Oliver sits on the Board of the UK Crowdfunding Association (UKCFA) and sat on the Board of the UK Business Angels Association (UKBAA) from 2006 to 2014. He is also a Member of Court at Imperial College (London). After completing a degree in Finance, Oliver decided not to become an accountant but instead raised equity and bank debt to start Woolleys Healthfoods. The business comprised three retail catering outlets in central London, three organic sausage shops and a factory in the south-east of England, which wholesaled to 200 establishments including Harrods. In 1997 he sold the business to Northern Foods and moved into early-stage investing.
7 Key Grants to Support SMEs Affected by the Coronavirus Pandemic
FundraisingBy Oliver Woolley
With reports suggesting this week that almost a fifth of British SMEs are at risk of collapsing within the next month, the Government has pledged unprecedented aid to companies to the cushion the blow from much of our economy shutting down. Here we list seven key initiatives that could prove to be essential lifelines for…
Conviction Investment Partners chooses Envestors' Network platform to improve efficiency, investor experience and increase deal flow
Fundraising, InvestingBy Oliver Woolley
Envestors is delighted to announce that Conviction Investment Partners, the London based, global syndicate of sophisticated investors, has joined the growing Envestry community – a digital universe that connects investment networks from across the UK, India, EMEA and China. Founded in the early 2000s, Conviction Investment Partners (CIP) pursues direct investment opportunities in early stage,…
Do small investor groups need to be regulated?
InvestingBy Oliver Woolley
There are a growing number of small investor groups – typically with 50-200 members – that charge their members fees, in addition to the typical 5% cost they must pay to the operators of the investor groups when they arrange for them to invest in a company. Although the membership fees tend to be small…
12 Things You Didn't Know You Could Crowdfund
Crowdfunding is ultimately about raising cash. But potential investors might want to be involved because it's about more than that – maybe they feel passionate about a project or maybe they just want to be a part of it. Digital fundraising has torn down global barriers and given rise to the ability to source funding…
How To Value Your Business
Featured, FundraisingBy Oliver Woolley
Download our calculator to create a fair valuation for your business. Valuing your business can be a daunting task. Too high and you'll put off investors, too low and you'll do yourself a major disservice. Having raised investment of over £100m into more than 200 early-stage companies, Envestors has developed a Scorecard and Flag System…
ICOs and Cryptocurrency
RUN AWAY. Should you gather your children and make for the hills…? (Envestors/Envestry) According to leading corporate lawyer who would prefer to remain nameless, there are two types of ICOs: "dodgy" and "not-quite-so-dodgy". In spite of this, we are seeing significant interest in ICOs and cryptocurrency (bitcoin, Ethereum and the new ones popping up every…


Commissions are an opportunity for the artist and customer to work together to create something magical. Custom pieces allow you to tailor your vision into a reality rather than search endlessly for a painting that may not exist. It is my pleasure to assist you in choosing the size, palette, theme, style, and subject you seek. This may be as simple as showing me a photograph or requesting something similar to one of my previous works. The process begins with an initial conversation via phone, email, or in person if you are local. We discuss everything in detail to guarantee your custom painting is fully suited to you and your space.
Following our initial conversation, I will send you a detailed invoice. I require a 50% deposit before beginning any custom design work. I will send photos during the painting process for your approval or should any changes be required. This is a collaborative process and I want you to love your one-of-a-kind original artwork. Once approved, I will send an invoice for the remaining balance and ship out your painting.
Large acrylic paintings are completed within 2 to 3 weeks. After the painting is dry, I glaze it for UV protection and preservation. The painting is then wired for hanging and packaged with archival paper and bubble wrap before being placed in a box and shipped via priority courier (I use Purolator or Canada Post with tracking numbers). Shipping fees are not included in the price of the painting and will be determined by the distance travelled. If you are within the Niagara area, I will deliver the painting free of charge.
A Simple Request. 48" by 48". A commissioned piece for Sendy in Chicago.


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Shearers Quarters: Minimum 2 night stay with the exception of Long Weekends where there is a 3 night minimum.
Minimum 2 guests. Maximum 14 guests.
Check-in time is from 2pm. Please advise of an approximate arrival time so we can be home to meet you.
If a guest is found to be a person under the age of 18 who is not accompanied by a responsible adult, the Property may immediately cancel the guest's booking and the full booking amount will be forfeited to the Property under this clause.
Pets, firearms, chainsaws and off-road use of vehicles is not permitted.
No smoking permitted inside any buildings or within 20 metres of the woolshed.
Payment in full is required to secure booking.
Credit Card details must also be supplied to secure booking, however no charge will be made to your card unless in the event of cancellation within 30 days prior to arrival.
Credit card details will also be used to cover accidentals and incidents during your stay. Credit cards will not be charged unless an incident occurs.
Please leave your name and invoice number as reference.
If cancelled 31 days or more prior to occupancy a full refund will be given.
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Park Protects Swamp Dwelling Gorillas
Categories: Journal no. 46, Ecology, Protective Measures, Other countries, Other protected areas, Western Lowland Gorilla, Gorilla Journal
Swampy forest with Marantaceae (© Richard Malonga/WCS)
Position of the Ntokou-Pikounda National Park (© WCS)
In 2000, WCS Senior Conservationist, and National Geographic explorer, Mike Fay set off on his now famous MegaTransect through the forests of Central Africa. During that historic 2,000 km trek from northern Republic of Congo to the Gabonese Atlantic coast, he encountered what he later called the "Green Abyss". The swampy forest was densely carpeted by Marantaceae, a family of herbaceous tropical plants that produce impenetrable tangles of leafy underbrush. During the 10 weeks it took Mike Fay and his team to cross the Green Abyss, he realized that while it is a terrible place for humans, it was a major stronghold for large mammals, including extremely high densities of great apes.
The international publicity generated by the MegaTransect also drew the attention of the Congolese government who in 2004 asked the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) to assist them in evaluating the potential to create a new protected area to preserve this unique habitat and its wildlife. While WCS and the government were performing biological inventories, the IFO-Danzer logging company, whose concession overlapped the Green Abyss, requested the government to remove 150,000 ha from the southern part of their concession, freeing up this swampy land for protection. By July of 2006, preliminary surveys in the area showed higher than expected densities of gorillas in an area where local communities expressed a strong interest in protecting these inaccessible habitats. Thus in September of 2006, at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the government of the Republic of Congo announced its intention to create the Ntokou-Pikounda National Park, named after the two largest villages along its border.
The Congolese National Center for Wildlife and Forest Inventories and Management (CNIAF) and WCS then initiated the first-ever comprehensive census of elephants and great apes across northern Congo, including a return to the Green Abyss, with a team of 40 staff to perform transect counts, fighting their way through the underbrush and sleeping in hammocks slung from trees over the swampy ground. For the first time, thorough and meticulous counts of gorilla signs were made using Distance sampling techniques to estimate great ape density from nest counts. The surveys were unprecedented in their scale – covering a total 47,444 km² of contiguous lowland and swamp forest – and, for some parts of the survey zone, these represented the first systematic surveys of the area.
Upon completion of the wildlife inventories in northern Congo in 2008, WCS announced the discovery of 125,000 western lowland gorillas, Gorilla gorilla gorilla, living in northern Congo – more than half of these individuals living in a population previously unknown to science. This discovery was extraordinary because, prior to the announcement, the most optimistic population estimate for this subspecies put their total numbers at approximately 50,000 to 100,000.
About 30,000 of northern Congo's 125,000 gorillas live in the Green Abyss, a place more properly known as "Ntokou-Pikounda". The density of gorillas throughout this whole area was estimated to be 4.1 weaned gorillas/km². No unprotected site in Central Africa had a higher priority for park creation, ape protection, and long-term conservation.
With this information in hand, and the government's stated desire, the process of creating the Ntokou-Pikounda National Park began in earnest. The CNIAF and WCS worked together through the multi-step process culminating in a Presidential Decree that would protect these gorillas and their habitat in perpetuity.
Armed with the results of biological and socio-economic surveys, the government and WCS convened community meetings around the entire periphery of the proposed park to discuss the placement of park boundaries with all stakeholders. For a protected area to succeed in safeguarding gorillas and other wildlife, local people must be supportive. In the creation of a protected area people must not be physically displaced from their homes, and long-established usage rights must be respected and safeguarded. In Ntokou-Pikounda there were few people living in the area and none inside the proposed park boundaries. Approximately 7,000-8,000 people live around the park. Once the communities agreed to the boundaries, all of the stakeholders were convened in a workshop to discuss and validate the presidential decree that was signed March 4, 2013.
In addition to gorillas, this newly established national park is home to more than 900 chimpanzees and 800 forest elephants. Additionally, because of its unique wetland habitat, this park hosts a wide variety fish, crocodiles, birds and Congo's largest and most secure hippo population.
The creation of this new protected area comes just in time as the threats to gorillas in this region are increasing at an alarming rate. Hunting of gorillas for bushmeat is increasing as the opening of new roads and bridges near the park has facilitated the entry of hunters and the transport of bushmeat. Additionally, prior to the creation of the park, and without consultation with the Forestry Ministry, the Minister of Agriculture issued a 4,700 km² palm oil plantation permit that overlapped a significant portion of the proposed park. However, with the official presidential decree that created the new park the forests within its boundaries are now fully protected.
This new park is a significant move toward the successful long-term conservation of western lowland gorillas and secures a future for this remote population in the food-rich swamp forests of the Republic of Congo. WCS will continue to support the Congolese government with technical assistance to the management of this park. With this opportunity there will also be the possibility to initiate behavioral and ecological studies of these swamp-living apes.
Paul T. Telfer


What's special is this: no bird can sing of an autumn sunrise or of sound of the crashing waves, although we and they equally feel it, and our lives depend upon it. Our greatest strength perhaps lies in understanding what gave birth to us, and to them – indeed to all of us – and in respecting that wisdom than manipulating it for devious purposes.
Man's mark on human evolution, and the history of our entire planet, has so far been earthshaking. What creature would evolve to be as this? If there is a God, why would God create such a creature? If there is no God, why would nature carve a pathway for the evolution of such a creature, only to destroy itself in its pursuits?
And yet I carry a pessimist's optimism, that man has a beautiful brain – as beautiful as an orchid or a bird of paradise, or a honeybee or a tiger, because, given a choice, he can understand that life is more than just man-made illusions. There are regions worth getting lost in to be found, should you decide to come out of the illusions which pretend to protect us. How else are we different with our beautiful brains, then, from the scorpion wielding a sting to hunt, or the ruminant with a specialized stomach?
I spent a considerable amount of time in the countryside of Kanha Tiger Reserve this year, more amongst people who live with the forests than without, and as I sit by the campfire at the end of the year, I reflect upon the seasons that went by and what the seasons that follow will bring. I could capture some moments in pictures which I share here, some in writing, but most remain in my heart.
Winter is the season when the young are old enough but still too young to leave their mother's side. I observed this Chital (Axis axis) fawn embrace its mother, and the doe, so very kindly, acknowledged by preening its neck one cold January morning.
Gondus was a Collared Scops Owl (Otus lettia) fledgling rescued from local hunters and taken care of for several days until he succumbed to its wounds from a broken wing. Its mother, Venus, was cared for until she could defend herself and was released back into the wild. Owls are heavily hunted in India for preposterous superstitious reasons.
While man digs for gold and diamonds underground, he so ignorantly ignores the treasure that lies in front – that which gives him life – the serenity of nature. Most pristine forests today rest over ores and oilfields, their very existence their doom.
The Hard Ground Barasingha (Cervus duvaucelii branderi), famed for its mighty branched antlers, is a subspecies found only in Kanha, and was driven to extinction because of rampant hunting. Thanks to stringent conservation measures, it is one of the success stories of India's conservation movement. This stag probably lost an antler in a fight with another.
Barasingha move in herds dominated by a stag and include several females and fawns, and young bucks. The meadows of Kanha eclipsed by the giant Sal trees are the finest habitats for these vulnerable species of deer.
Palash (Butea monosperma) is one of the few trees to give colour to an otherwise drab monochrome of the summer of the Central Indian Highlands. A set of flowers resembling oil lamps hangs from the lower branch along a perennial waterhole.
Kusum (Schleichera oleosa) explodes in warm colours by the end of March as it sheds leaves, and just as suddenly springs into shades of deepest reds as new leaves sprout. The spring of Kusum emblazes the forests of Central India during summer, and the sight of seeing one ablaze in the summer greens of Sal is a sight for sore eyes.
Weaver Ants (Oecophylla smargdina) are primarily arboreal ants, making nests on trees using leaves and tending to bugs that secret honeydew, but they are also fierce fighters and opportunists, capable of taking down a number of living things they can empower, including this bark scorpion.
As temperatures soar over forty degrees and waterholes shrink, animals start flocking together and can be seen in huge congregations, a scene reminiscent of mighty migrations of African and American continents. A herd of Chital over 114 individuals strong trod over this hillock looking for sparse green grass one summer evening.
(Indian Rat Snake) mating with a Nag (Cobra), and that the offspring of these are deadlier.
Gaur (Bos gaurus) is the largest of Bovids of India, and a herd of these gentle giants is a sight to see. We came across a large herd of cows, calves, and young bulls in early June when the rains had cleared the dust off leaves, led by this giant bull with a wall of muscle, bearing scars on his face from many a battle.
There are many secrets the jungle holds beside the most magnificent, and most of these secrets lie hidden. Pseudoscorpions are one of the least known Arachnids and best kept secrets of Kanha that have found their own niche amongst the tigers and spiders, both supreme predators of their respective niche.
Millipedes, although fairly common throughout the world, are one of the least appreciated groups of organisms, and play a vital role in the undergrowth. Their courtship is nowhere short of romantic. Here, a Polydesmid male gently climbs and holds a female, and using his modified pair of legs called gonopods, caresses the female in a graceful embrace.
Females in some species of Firefly (Family Lampyridae) retain their larval stage after maturity and attract males by flashing a fluorescent bottom. Large females such as the one coiled up in defense are a common sight on Kanha's forest floor during monsoon months.
it is naught but Kaans (Saccharum spontaneum).
predation usually mimic from tail-to-head (in that order) so that the tail-end resembles a head.
Amyciaea, a predator, uses the tail-to-head mimicry, which is uncommon for a predator.
In this picture, a Phoerid fly shares the hunt.
Spiders of Central India are diverse in their size, shape, colour, and methods of hunting.
with a female relishing upon a honeybee she caught on the other side of her web.
One of the most common venomous snakes of Kanha is the Indian Cobra (Naja naja), also called the Spectacled Cobra. This young fellow sought shelter in a motorbike in the morning after sensing movement of people around, and was rescued from it after a whole forty-five minutes of searching.
The essence of sunrise or a sunset lies in simply watching it, no matter where you watch it from. Seeing the sun rise over the vast forests of Kanha creates an illusion of what I call the Endless Forest Effect. This landscape however is intermingled with villages, fields, pasture lands, and roads, waiting to encroach through the network of trees.
To see a tiger is to see everything an ecosystem stands for.
Very rightly the epitome of an ecosystem, tigers are now more of an epitome of management.
her call reverberating through our hearts long after she had vanished.
The namesake of the Tiger, Common Tiger, Danaus genutia, also called Striped Tiger, nonchalantly flaps its wings to touch-base with one of the last flowering Crotalaria shrubs before the onset of the cold winter months.
The entirety of this web of a Pholcid spider contained tens of mosquitoes, a part of this in the photograph shows mosquitoes in the genus Aedes and Anopheles, both carriers of malaria, and several midges, craneflies, and a planthopper fallen prey to the spider. Kanha's southern region is rife with malaria, and spider-webs serve as efficient traps for mosquitoes. In this picture, two Milichiid flies feast on the remains.
By the end of the year almost all the plants that grew through monsoon have produced seeds. During the cold and dry season of winter, they ripen and are ready to disperse. Some grasses, such as Heteropogon contortus, locally called Sukda Ghaas (in picture), rely on winds and sporadic rains to unfurl their seeds and be ready to latch onto any passing animal. A few drops of water send this bunch of seeds tangled by their awn into a spin, unraveling themselves as they dance.
My window offers a decent view of the sun setting over a crowded treeline. Every evening casts new shapes and colours, and performs sunset displays each different than the previous. Winters offer the best spectacle during the setting sun, and are a fine ending to a fine year, but also a fine prelude for what's to come. The year – if it may end, if it should end – should always end with a spectacular sunset.


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In the last century, when the Condesa's urbanization began, it was planned that all streets converge at the Mexico Park. It was designed by architect José Luis Cuevas in 1925.
The park is officially called Parque General San Martín and it was opened in 1927. The Charles Lindbergh forum is found inside, with the trademark art deco sculpture of a woman carrying two vessels. The amphitheater has five monumental pillars covered with canopies and two pergolas, the work of José María Fernández Urbina.
The Mexico Park and the España Park give life to the Condesa neighborhood, as a center for meeting and getting together with other people. People go for walks, exercise, do yoga, rollerblading and walk their dogs. It extends over nine acres and has an elliptical shape with fountains, a pond where ducks take a dip, a clock and an octagonal fountain, both art déco style.
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Unauthorized Biography of Superfly, Poem #2: Sherrie
Youngblood wasn't ready for me.
Somebody told him I was a soft kinda bitch.
He liked to tell me I was the first woman
that wouldn't accept his shit. Whether or not that's true,
he learned real fast that I ain't afraid to hit back. He was still
young then, a little bit of a fool. But hell, me too.
He used to rub himself before I'd let him slap me.
He probably don't want me to share his business
but I'll notify you when I give a damn. His hands
were so fast, Jesus. Even when I knew it was coming.
Even when I told him to. But don't get it twisted now,
this wasn't for free. He got two or three hits in before I
laid into his ass. He'd be sliding in and out while I was stroking
with one arm and ramming him with the other. He wasn't loud
in bed, more of a growler. I don't know
what he does with his women now. We ended things pretty
smoothly, but I know for a fact he hates me. While we had fun
for a while, I wasn't supposed to cut him open. All I asked
was to hear his middle name. Youngblood Priest was too damn cool
of a real man's name, and I'd rather fuck a man than a hologram.
I asked him to tell me on our second date. He hit me.
The second to last time we shared a bed, he was growling
like some kinda lion being trampled to death. I didn't understand;
far as I knew my lovin' was the same. Maybe I was mad,
didn't know I was beating him harder. But when he was done,
he fell on the sheets, laid his head where he'd just pulled out,
and he whispered. It was a strange name. A little boring,
a little too painful for my man to say aloud.
And he didn't tell me why he said it. I just know his eyes
were a pair of caves. I knew I wasn't crawlin' in.
If I tell it to you, the word that clawed
out of his mouth, could you keep it quiet?
Hell no. He'd kill me. But I'll admit,
something still shakes in me. I want him to remember the time
he gave some crazy bitch his other name.
And, if he heard it again, from somebody else's mouth,
would he know it had slipped from me? If it was really a love
thing, like he said, like he swung, like he growled,
could that name have only come from me?
BY KHARY JACKSON
Khary Jackson is a performance poet, playwright, dancer and musician. A Detroit native, he currently resides in the Twin Cities where he serves as a teaching artist and writer. He is a Cave Canem Fellow, and as a result has further reason to adore black people. He has written 12 full length plays, one of which (Water) was produced in 2009 at Ink and Pulp Theatre in Chicago. He's a little weird, but rest assured, there's a method to the way he stares into your house.


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Klopoushak in charge: Chamberfest's new artistic leader has musical diversity in mind
Carissa Klopoushak.
You'd think Carissa Klopoushak had enough on her plate.
She's a violinist with the NAC Orchestra. She's a co-funder of the Ironwood Quartet. She started and remains the artistic director of a music festival in her hometown of Saskatoon, COVID notwithstanding. She's part of the team behind the Classical Unbound festival in Prince Edward County in the summer and she pursue traditional Ukrainian music to honour her heritage and she plays modern folk in a Ukrainian folk-rock band Tyt i Tam. That's not to mention the odd recording effort of her own.
And, on top of all that, she's engaged to be married in the not too distant future.
But, she told ARTSFILE in an interview, her packed schedule hasn't deterred her from taking on the artistic direction of the world's largest chamber music festival.
She's officially been on the job at Chamberfest since Aug. 17, but she's actually been working since June.
And if COVID-19 has a silver lining, it's that Klopoushak has had a chance to settle into her new position while many of her other obligations are on hold — save the marriage thing.
"Right now everything is working at a slower pace and there are so many ways in which things are complementary. But I anticipate I am going to be nice and busy. There's not too much that I'm going to give that's for sure … maybe sleep.
"But for me personally, at Chamberfest, my role is curatorial and visionary. I have a talented team for a lot of the administration of these ideas."
She knows she can't completely escape the paperwork and the meetings, but the job is "wonderful. There is a lot of dreaming and imagining and what if … we put these things together. That is something I really love to do and why I have been involved in the other festivals."
It helps in an odd way that COVID forced a slowdown in the hectic schedule of music-making.
"The amazing opportunity that was afforded by COVID was (Chamberfest) was able to bring me on board at the end of June to shadow (out-going artistic director) Roman (Borys) and meet people and get a hang of how things work."
The first official thing she has been involved in is the fall lineup of livestreamed concerts announced this past week.
And "the final crossing of the T's and dotting of the I's" has been done by her along with the well-oiled administration of Chamberfest. She tips her cap to Borys for dreaming up the livestreamed concert series and Chamber Chats with important artists conducted by Eric Friesen.
Her other festivals are much smaller. The Ritornello Chamber Music Festival is held over three nights and features traditional chamber presentation and repertoire, along with more contemporary music along with lesser known works. Classical Unbound takes place over four weekends in the dead of summer on wineries in a pastoral setting.
Meanwhile, Chamberfest features about 100 concerts jammed into roughly two weeks in a mix of halls and music, along with a concert series and educational endeavours. It's a much bigger canvas, a challenge she relishes.
Another thing matters here though. After 25 years, Klopoushak is the first woman to be artistic director. Her appointment is an important statement by the festival and by the Ottawa Chamber Music Society. While it is changing, the field of classical music has been dominated by paternalistic men for many many decades.
She says she "definitely" thinks about the symbolic importance of her appointment. "Representation and diversity within our field is important to me. I will do my best to do more homework in that regard."
But there is more too — an obligation if you will. "I am a younger woman but I am also white and very Canadian as well as being Ukrainian and I have my privileges too."
She knows she will have to through a crucible of sorts and she says she will do that "happily because of the other side of this we are going to end up in a place that is more equitable, more diverse with more voices heard … the more the better. It will make us richer."
She says that reaching a certain percentage of representation "is not my driving motivator … but I think there is so much room for improvement I am excited to get more and more diversity represented.
"That can be through many different channels, not just composers, it can be who we have in the office, who our advisors are."
First and foremost, she said, she has research to do, but adds that "if I am going for the best and the most innovative, I think that the percentages will work themselves out. The tide has changed. More people now find this important than don't care."
Having been connected with the festival for the past 11 years or so, she is also confident that Chamberfest is innovative and interested in presenting diverse artists from different backgrounds.
"Of course, every single organization can do better, but I am looking forward to making that one of my many priorities."
Chamberfest has always prided itself on being a celebration of the small ensemble, she says.
"That's something that Roman and I have very much in common. This idea that there is a lot that can fit into the label chamber music very naturally.
"I love folk stuff and I love all kinds of different genres and that's absolutely" part of the chamber music file.
There is already a close relationship between the NAC Orchestra and Chamberfest. Klopoushak, who has a foot in both camps, says both organizations see her appointment as a wonderful opportunity to deepen the co-operation. But not much will take place until the COVID ice starts to melt. While NACO is waiting for the green light, her playing career waits and there is time to dream.
"I am interested to see what is possible in terms of collaboration and shared resources. A lot of those conversations are still to happen but it will be exciting to see where this might go."
Meanwhile, for her own sense of work-life balance and intellectual betterment, Klopoushak has made a commitment to herself to wake up every morning to practice her violin and "make music personally."
She's not an early riser, but "it doesn't matter what time of day, it just matters that it is first."
In the livestream: Chamberfest fall concerts to feature Cheng² Duo, Russell Braun, Angela Hewitt and more
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