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NowPlaying: Outlast
May 21, 2014 May 21, 2014 davidjlovato
All screenshots were taken by me from the Playstation 4 version of Outlast, and may contain graphic imagery.
I have a long history with the horror genre. Nearly all of the short stories I wrote as a teenager were horror stories. I loved horror films as well, and it's no surprise that my fondness for the genre eventually extended to video games.
It started with Resident Evil, as it probably should have. I bought Resident Evil and Resident Evil Zero for the GameCube, in time to play through them before the then-impending release of Resident Evil 4 (which I still consider one of the greatest video games ever made). Eventually I'd move on to other genre classics like the Silent Hill series, Dead Space, Left 4 Dead, you name it.
I think the horror genre works particularly well in the world of video games. The added layer of interactivity video games provide gives you a sense of peril not possible in film or literature. It's not impossible for a book to be frightening (I can easily refer you to House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski and the short story "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" by Ursula K. Le Guin) and you're even more likely to find a frightening film, but video games have an innate ability to hit the fear sweet spot.
I grew up on survival horror video games, but the last few years have yielded a drought for the genre. Resident Evil is more about action now (and I liked Resident Evil 5 and I liked Resident Evil 6 even more, but the horror element is barely present). Silent Hill sees few releases these days, but the series has gone more or less the same way, and while Dead Space 3 tried to strike a balance between action and horror, it mostly abandons all attempts at fear after the first third of the game.
I must not be alone in my yearning for the survival horror classics of the past, because indie developers have stepped up to fill the void most major publishers seem to be ignoring. Games like Slender, Underhell, and Amnesia bring a lot to the table and prove survival horror is alive and well, but my favorite slice of this indie survival horror pie has to be Outlast.
The Blair Witch Project didn't invent the found footage genre, but it did propel it into the mainstream. A few attempts have been made to translate it into video games, but Outlast does it the best. You play as Miles Upshur, a reporter who receives an anonymous tip about atrocities being committed at Mount Massive Asylum. Armed only with his video camera, Miles breaks into the asylum. The video camera plays an integral role in Outlast, being Miles's only ally within the walls of Mount Massive.
The anonymous tipster wasn't joking, and Miles immediately becomes trapped in Mount Massive, wandering the dark and bloodied hallways, using the camera's night vision mode to navigate dark corridors and sneak around pursuing enemies. Night vision isn't unlimited, and Miles must keep a stock of batteries to power it as he tries to record the events unfolding in the asylum, or just find a way out.
A few survival horror games put you in the role of a defenseless protagonist, relying on stealth and running away rather than confronting enemies head-on. Outlast is interesting in that not everyone in the asylum is trying to kill you–some of the inmates will actually aid you, some will ignore you, and some will aid, ignore, or attack you depending on their mood.
Outlast features no playable combat, forcing you to rely on stealth and hiding to avoid enemies.
There are no ghosts or monsters in Mount Massive, only mentally disturbed people. While some have an inherent propensity for violence, others only mistake Miles for another "doctor" arriving to further torment them. This human aspect permeates the game, and even extends to Outlast's primary antagonist, Chris Walker.
Walker is an ex-marine committed to the asylum long before Miles's arrival. Easily the largest inmate, Chris stalks the halls grunting about completing his mission, rattling his chains, breaking down doors, and occasionally ripping off people's heads. He has a particular interest in Miles Upshur, and if he catches you with low enough health, it's an immediate game over.
Protagonist Miles Upshur tries in vain to defend himself against Chris Walker.
Other characters (like Father Martin, Doctor Trager, and the twins) give the game a sense of personality. They're well-written, oddly charming, and create lingering presences that keep you on your toes throughout your stay at Mount Massive.
The story behind the events at the asylum unfold through documents and in-game dialogue and graffiti, all pointing Miles toward one thing: The Walrider. I won't spoil what the Walrider is, other than it's the one inhuman thing in Mount Massive, and Miles will eventually come face-to-face with it.
A lot of the game's events are scripted, and the layout and level design are genius. While you're rarely not in control of the protagonist, the building is designed to make sure you're looking at the right places at the right times to see exactly what you need to to progress the story, or just to frighten you.
Outlast had me on the edge of my seat, but the game's ending left a lot to be desired. My largest gripe with the horror genre is the way many works end. Often they're predictable, ambiguously grim, and usually avoidable scenarios that feel more like the writing team checked out early than actually sat down to wrap up the story they created. Outlast was no exception to this rule. At least, not until Whistleblower.
Outlast: Whistleblower is a DLC prequel/interquel/sequel to the main game. In it you play as Waylon Park, the anonymous tipster who first alerted Miles Upshur to the events at Mount Massive. The two stories heavily intertwine, which is apparent from the beginning: Your first objective as Waylon Park is to send the email Miles Upshur receives in the main game.
While it starts earlier than Outlast, Whistleblower is meant to be played after. As Waylon Park, you'll experience echoes of Miles Upshur's actions throughout the game, which leads to several Easter eggs and clever encounters with old enemies and allies.
Waylon Park prepares to send an email that will change his life—and Miles Upshur's—forever.
Whistleblower doesn't rely entirely on the old, however. The DLC introduces new characters equally as creative and frightening as the ones found in Outlast. Dennis, Frank Manera, and Eddie Gluskin almost make you wish you were being hunted by the twins or Doctor Trager again.
Outlast and Whisteblower touch on the "body horror" subgenre made popular by works such as Alien, The Thing, and Dead Space. As far as subgenres go, body horror is one of my favorites. When you can all but feel what's happening on the screen, the horror becomes more visceral, more effective. Again, I don't want to ruin the fun, but neither Miles Upshur nor Waylon Park will emerge from their time at Mount Massive entirely intact.
Inmate Eddie Gluskin's operating table.
Whistleblower is a much shorter experience than Outlast (my first playthrough of the main game took almost seven hours, while Whistleblower hovered around two) but it remedies all of my qualms with the game's ending.
Both Outlast and Whistleblower come with a layer of social commentary (the former on mental health and treatment of those suffering from disorders, the latter on the titular concept of whistleblowing) but it never gets in the way of the game's main intention: Telling a story. A very disturbing, frightening, and totally fun story.
The team at Red Barrels consists mostly of former employees of Ubisoft and Naughty Dog, and proves that a game doesn't need a huge budget or a large studio to be as good as the $60 discs you'll find on store shelves. Outlast is a lot of fun and one of the best survival horror experiences I'm aware of. I'm excited to see what else the studio has to offer, not to mention any future entries they might have in the Outlast vein.
The halls of Mount Massive are difficult to escape, but I can't help but hope Red Barrels will one day let us back in.
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3 thoughts on "NowPlaying: Outlast"
hungryandfit May 21, 2014 / 4:27 pm
Looks creepy
davidjlovato May 22, 2014 / 9:07 am
It is, I promise. I was going to post a video of my character hiding under a bed while an inmate tried to break the door down and come find me, but I seem to have misplaced the file.
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Bethesda re-confirms mod support for PS4 versions of Skyrim, Fallout 4
MCV Staff 6th October 2016	Publishing
Bethesda backtracked yesterday, announcing that the PS4 versions of Skyrim and Fallout 4 will support user-created mods after all. It's getting PS4 Pro support for both titles, too.
Last month Bethesda announced that mod support for the PS4 versions of Skyrim and Fallout 4 would be pulled despite its previous announcement. The company suggested at the time that it was the fault of Sony, saying in a statement: "Sony has informed us they will not approve user modes the way they should work."
Bethesda specifically mentioned one major limitation in their announcement post, which you can find on their blog: "You will not be able to upload external assets with your PlayStation 4 mods, but you will be able to use any assets that come with the game, as most mods do."
This is good news for value tweaks and reconfigurations, but bad news for players who were hoping to get their hands on Darth Vader armour or become Sonic The Hedgehog.
From their blog post, Bethesda says: "We are excited finally to get modding to our PlayStation fans who have supported us for so long. Modding has been an important part of our games for over 10 years, and we hope to do even more in the coming year for all our players, regardless of platform."
Skyrim remastered launches later this month. In addition to mods, the PS4 Pro support means it'll be able to render in native 4k. Bethesda will work on improvements for Fallout 4 at a later date, bringing the mod support and "enhanced lighting and graphics features."
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Rob Tsunehiro designs and crafts bicycles for individuals with all manner of riding pursuits. Attention to function, efficiency and durability informs the creation of each Tsunehiro bicycle.
Rob divides his time between the computer, the workshop and the saddle. Through each stage of research and design, in working with the materials and tools, and finally pushing the pedals up a hill, there is an intimacy with the bike. This is his dream job.
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Silas has been toying with utility-bike ideas for many years, but it took the OM challenge to spur him into finally building that dream bike with Rob.
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In a new study released in the journal Cancer, the new raw water trend may reduce the risk of prostate and breast cancer in eldery patients.
The raw water trend is sweeping the nation, from California to Maine, with people actually paying money to drink unfiltered and untreated water.
Many mommy bloggers and natural health gurus are trying to get in on the trend, quickly collecting water from nearby lakes and rivers and selling it to their patients in between chakra alignments.
With news that raw water may also reduce the risk of certain cancers, the trend is sure to continue.


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Over $113 million to support independent arts sector
The Victorian Government will back 90 of the state's independent arts organisations with an investment of over $113 million over the next four years, providing stability to the sector and fuelling the state's creative economy and cultural life.
Regional festivals and Indigenous arts companies are among those receiving increased support in the 2017-2020 round of Creative Victoria's Organisations Investment Program, which provides four-year funding for small, medium and large arts organisations to help underpin their operations.
Among the new entrants to the program are Shepparton's Indigenous art organisation Gallery Kaiela; Indigenous opera company Short Black Opera; Newport's dynamic multi-arts venue, The Substation; multicultural youth arts organisation, Outer Urban Projects, and the Museum Of Australian Democracy at Eureka in Ballarat.
The program is a key pillar of support for the arts sector and received a boost this year as part of the Victorian Government's Creative State strategy.
The overall portfolio of organisations supported spans the state and includes museums and galleries, music, theatre, circus, dance and opera companies, festivals and literary organisations. Peak industry bodies and service organisations are also in the mix.
The supported organisations reach a broad cross-section of the community, including children and youth, people with a disability, and culturally and linguistically diverse artists and audiences. Many tour extensively and have national and international reputations for creative excellence.
Applications were assessed by eight panels of independent experts across the visual and performing arts, theatre, literature, festivals , dance, music, community cultural development and heritage, based on artistic merit, quality of services and contribution, and organisational capacity.
Priority was given to providing a stable base for smaller, more vulnerable organisations that are delivering strong creative or cultural outcomes. More than 20% of the organisations are regionally based, 10% are Indigenous and 10% are dedicated to working with young people.
Organisations Investment Program recipients
(Funding over 4 years)
Aphids Southbank $294,000
Aphids is an artist-led organisation, creating and producing cross-artform projects in Victoria, interstate and internationally.
Arapiles Community Theatre Natimuk $300,000
Arapiles Community Theatre, Natimuk, delivers the biennial Nati Frinj festival providing artistic programs to foster the arts within the Natimuk community and surrounding region.
Arena Theatre Company North Melbourne $760,000
Arena Theatre Company creates live performances for audiences aged 5 to 25 years and its work investigates and celebrates the experiences of young people in the here and now.
Art is... Festival Horsham $300,000
Art is...Festival engages the Horsham region in high quality art experiences and art-making with its annual festival.
Arts Access Victoria South Melbourne $1,344,000
Arts Access Victoria delivers a range of programs supporting and representing people with a disability to realise their cultural aspirations as artists, arts workers and audiences.
Arts Mildura Mildura $473,760
Arts Mildura presents visual and performing arts experiences to a broad range of audiences and currently presents four festivals a year including the biennial Palimpsest.
Ausdance Victoria Yarraville $520,000
Ausdance Victoria is the sole peak professional body for dance in Victoria and the lead agency for dance education nationally.
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Southbank $3,072,952
The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) is Victoria's flagship contemporary arts space. It presents an annual season of free public exhibitions of artwork by living artists from Australia and around the world.
Australian Poetry Melbourne $240,000
Australian Poetry is the peak body for poetry in Australia, working with publishers, teachers, readers and festival organisers.
Australian Print Workshop Inc Fitzroy $674,520
The Australian Print Workshop is a fine art print workshop offering state-of-the-art printmaking facilities to artists and the general public.
Australian Tapestry Workshop South Melbourne $903,000
The Australian Tapestry Workshop is an international centre of excellence for contemporary, hand-woven tapestries, created in collaboration with leading artists, architects and designers.
Back to Back Theatre Inc Geelong $868,000
Back to Back Theatre works with an ensemble of actors who are perceived to have an intellectual disability. The company creates original new works of theatre and tours these works nationally and globally.
Ballarat International Foto Biennale Ballarat $300,000
Ballarat International Foto Biennale presents a month-long biennial festival of contemporary photography in multiple locations around Ballarat.
BalletLab Association Inc (Phillip Adams BalletLab) Southbank $513,000
Phillip Adams BalletLab creates original contemporary dance works in collaboration with artistic partners across art forms.
Baluk Arts Mornington $300,000
Baluk Arts is an urban Aboriginal community arts centre that supports artistic, career and audience development for Indigenous artists in Bayside, Peninsula and South-East Melbourne.
Bus Projects Collingwood $240,000
Bus Projects is an artist-run initiative that provides a platform for the development and presentation of contemporary visual arts.
Castlemaine State Festival Castlemaine $732,400
The Castlemaine State Festival is a biennial multi-arts festival that utilises the distinctive environment and creative culture of Castlemaine and the surrounding region.
Centre for Contemporary Photography Fitzroy $674,520
The Centre for Contemporary Photography delivers an exhibition program utilising local, national and international artists.
Chamber Made Opera North Melbourne $674,520
Chamber Made Opera brings together artists from different artforms to create experimental contemporary opera/musical theatre.
Chinese Museum Melbourne $428,400
The Museum of Chinese Australian History collects, researches and presents exhibitions relating to Australian Chinese history.
Chunky Move Southbank $3,512,060
Chunky Move is Victoria's flagship contemporary dance company. As well as its artistic program, it provides leadership to the dance sector through residencies, mentorships and workshops.
Community Music Victoria Melbourne $252,000
Community Music Victoria strengthens and develops inclusive group music-making and choir development throughout Victoria.
Courthouse ARTS Geelong $270,060
Courthouse Arts, based in Geelong, provides artistic services for young people with a diverse mix of artforms and programs.
Craft Victoria Melbourne $1,125,600
Craft Victoria is the peak body for craft in Victoria with a gallery and shop in the Melbourne CBD.
Creative Clunes Clunes $240,000
Creative Clunes stages an annual festival-of-the-book with the aim of making Clunes one of the great literary Booktowns of the world.
Cultural Development Network Incorporated Carlton $240,000
Cultural Development Victoria advocates for the essential role of arts and cultural expression in the development of creative, healthy, engaged and sustainable communities.
Dancehouse Carlton North $640,000
Dancehouse is the centre for independent dance makers in Melbourne and plays a significant role in the development of innovative dance practice.
Emerging Writers' Festival Melbourne $341,600
Emerging Writers' Festival is a platform for connecting and profiling Australia's emerging writers across live events throughout Australia and online.
Experimenta Media Arts Melbourne $453,600
Experimenta Media Arts develops and supports media artists and their practice through a biennial exhibition, a commissioning program and national and international touring.
Express Media Melbourne $562,800
Express Media is a youth organisation committed to the development of a new generation of Australian writers, offering a range of programs and opportunities.
Flying Fruit Fly Foundation South Albury $427,140
The Flying Fruit Fly Circus provides a circus program for young people aged 8 to 19, developing physical, performance and creative skills, and providing career pathways for circus artists.
Footscray Community Arts Centre Footscray $924,000
Footscray Community Arts Centre provides artistic programs and experiences to the diverse communities of Melbourne's Western Region.
Gallery Kaiela Incorporated Shepparton $300,000
Gallery Kaiela exhibits and promotes the work of Shepparton-based Indigenous artists, developing a market for their work and promoting an understanding of South Eastern Australian Aboriginal arts and culture.
Gertrude Contemporary Fitzroy $798,000
Gertrude Contemporary is a leading contemporary visual art organisation supporting the creation and presentation of new work.
Heide Museum of Modern Art Bulleen $5,618,640
Heide Museum of Modern Art is a major outer-metropolitan art museum and sculpture park for modern and recent Australian visual arts.
Hobsons Bay Community Arts Inc (The Substation) Newport $300,000
The Substation is a multi-arts centre supporting, developing and promoting artists across a range of disciplines through an annual curated program of creative development, residencies and presentation.
HotHouse Theatre Ltd Wodonga $720,000
HotHouse Theatre Ltd is a national incubator of high quality theatre productions as well as a centre for artistic retreat and development in Northern Victoria.
ILBIJERRI Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Theatre Cooperative Ltd North Melbourne $780,000
ILBIJERRI promotes and provides opportunities for 'the power of black voices telling black stories' and has become the longest-running Indigenous theatre company in Australia.
Jewish Museum of Australia St Kilda $292,320
The Jewish Museum of Australia is committed to engaging people with Jewish culture and providing access to its material culture.
Koorie Heritage Trust Inc Melbourne $449,820
The Koorie Heritage Trust supports and promotes the diversity of South East Australian Aboriginal peoples and provides opportunities for all people to experience, learn and connect with living Koorie culture.
La Mama Inc Carlton $900,000
La Mama is a theatre company with a rich history and offers performing artists the opportunity, space, support and resources with which to take risks and make new work.
Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts St Kilda $240,000
Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts is an art gallery located in St Kilda exhibiting new work by contemporary artists and supporting artists' development.
Liquid Architecture Sound Inc Windsor $240,000
Liquid Architecture showcases the quality and diversity of contemporary sonic arts practice through the public presentation of sound arts and experimental music.
Lucy Guerin Inc West Melbourne $640,000
Lucy Guerin creates and presents new contemporary dance works that challenge artists, audiences and the form of dance. The company plays a leading role in the development of the contemporary dance sector.
McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery Langwarrin $462,000
McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery presents outdoor sculptures by Australian artists in a native bushland landscape as well as exhibitions and public programs.
Melbourne Chamber Orchestra Melbourne $240,000
Melbourne Chamber Orchestra presents an annual series of chamber orchestral concerts in Melbourne, and tours and presents an educational program in regional Victoria.
Melbourne Festival Melbourne $25,216,824
Melbourne Festival is Victoria's premier celebration of international performing and visual arts and Melbourne's flagship cultural event.
Melbourne Fringe Melbourne $1,468,000
Melbourne Fringe presents the annual 18-day Melbourne Fringe Festival each September, and its year-round work provides independent artists with the tools to create, present and promote their work.
Melbourne International Comedy Festival Melbourne $6,861,400
Melbourne International Comedy Festival offers year-round touring, educational and artistic development programs, complementing the presentation of the iconic annual four-week Festival in Melbourne.
Melbourne Jazz Ltd North Melbourne $1,680,000
Celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2017, the Melbourne International Jazz Festival is a ten-day celebration of jazz over the first two weekends of June.
Melbourne Writers Festival Melbourne $1,196,000
Melbourne Writers Festival is Melbourne's annual, two-week event for writers, readers and thinkers.
Midsumma Festival Melbourne $300,000
Midsumma Festival is Melbourne's annual Queer Celebration and is a federation of arts and cultural events spread over venues throughout Melbourne and regional Victoria.
Multicultural Arts Victoria Inc South Melbourne $1,344,000
Multicultural Arts Victoria is Victoria's peak arts organisation promoting cultural diversity in the arts, representing artists and communities from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka (M.A.D.E) Ballarat $340,000
Located in Ballarat, M.A.D.E uses interactive and immersive exhibitions to explore the history of Eureka and evolution of democracy.
Museums Australia (Victoria) Inc. Carlton $1,362,660
Museums Australia (Victoria) is a membership and peak body for Victoria's 1,000 museums and galleries.
National Exhibitions Touring Support (NETS) Victoria Melbourne $831,600
NETS Victoria is the peak body for touring contemporary visual culture and design in Victoria.
Next Wave Festival Inc. North Melbourne $1,720,000
Next Wave Festival is a biennial festival and artist development organisation, presenting new work by emerging artists.
O L Society Limited (Overland) Footscray $240,000
Overland commissions, edits, promotes and oversees the distribution of high-quality new Australian creative and critical writing.
Outer Urban Projects Coburg North $240,000
Outer Urban Projects is a performing arts company that collaborates with young people and their communities in Melbourne's culturally diverse, outer northern suburbs.
Polyglot Theatre South Yarra $840,000
Polyglot Theatre is Australia's leading creator of participatory theatre for children and families. Its work is toured throughout Victoria as well as nationally and internationally.
Port Fairy Spring Music Festival Port Fairy $300,000
The Port Fairy Spring Music Festival features established and emerging professional musicians in programs that aim to engage, educate and entertain all members of the community.
Public Galleries Association of Victoria (PGAV) Melbourne $240,000
The Public Galleries Association of Victoria is the peak body for public galleries in Victoria.
Punctum Castlemaine $240,000
Punctum is an artist-led live arts organisation that fosters new approaches to collaborative performance making and audience engagement in Castlemaine and its region.
Ranters Theatre Northcote $320,000
Ranters Theatre is a performance company working with an ensemble of actors to produce a range of artistic outcomes that challenge theatrical presentation and form.
Rawcus Theatre Company Inc. Balaclava $320,000
Rawcus Theatre Company is a long-term ensemble of artists with and without a disability, presenting a program of projects, commissions, presentations and workshops for the general public.
Red Stitch Actors Theatre St Kilda $320,000
Red Stitch Actors Theatre works with an ensemble of performers and theatre-makers to promote Australian theatre culture and presents an annual season of diverse repertoire.
Regional Arts Victoria Melbourne $3,015,140
Regional Arts Victoria is the peak body for regional and rural arts in Victoria with more than 100 Arts Councils and affiliates as members.
Royal Historical Society of Victoria Melbourne $337,260
The Royal Historical Society of Victoria is the peak body for the preservation and promotion of heritage throughout Victoria.
Shepparton Arts Festival inc. Shepparton $300,000
The Shepparton Arts Festival presents a multi-art event annually that focuses on grassroots practice with the aim of engaging the whole community in its artistic program.
Short Black Opera Melbourne $360,000
Short Black Opera is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander opera company based in Melbourne. It provides intensive training to Indigenous singers, including children, and leads the Dhungala Children's Choir, based in Shepparton.
Snuff Puppets Footscray $449,820
Snuff Puppets is an experimental puppet theatre company producing idiosyncratic performances of large-scale puppets locally, nationally and internationally.
Songlines Aboriginal Music Corporation Preston $336,000
Songlines Aboriginal Music Corporation provides opportunities for Victorian-based Indigenous musicians and performers to develop skills, showcase their artistic abilities and engage with the arts sector at an industry standard.
Speak Percussion Inc. Thornbury $294,000
Speak Percussion presents arts events focused on percussion involving challenging and invigorating performances.
St Martins Youth Arts Centre South Yarra $899,220
St Martins Youth Arts Centre provides theatre programs for people aged 5-30 years with a commitment to embody inclusion, civic mindedness and social engagement.
The Black Arm Band Melbourne $336,000
The Black Arm Band develops, performs, promotes and celebrates contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music and culture.
The Boite (Victoria) Inc Abbotsford $512,400
The Boîte (Victoria) supports cultural diversity through the sharing of music, dance and storytelling from diverse traditions.
The Sovereign Hill Museums Association (Gold Museum) Ballarat $1,012,000
The Gold Museum is located in Ballarat and is operated by a business unit of the Sovereign Hill Museums Association. Its purpose is to inspire an understanding of the significance of the central Victorian gold rushes in Australia's national story.
The Wheeler Centre Melbourne $6,166,400
The Wheeler Centre for Books Writing and Ideas is nationally and internationally renowned for its year-round program of talks and lectures, readings and debates about writing and ideas.
Theatre Network Australia South Melbourne $300,000
Theatre Network Australia is a national service organisation for the professional, small-to-medium and independent performing arts industry with a dedicated Victorian program.
Theatre Works St Kilda $588,000
Theatre Works is a multi-purpose, contemporary performance venue in St Kilda which supports innovative arts practice.
VAPAC Inc Newham $240,000
VAPAC is a membership based organisation for professionally managed venues delivering performing arts programs.
Victorian Opera Melbourne $15,150,296
Victorian Opera is Victoria's leading opera company. It presents a main-stage opera season in Melbourne, commissions new Australian works, provides opportunities for Victorian artists, delivers an education program and presents programs for regional Victorians.
Wangaratta Festival of Jazz Wangaratta $475,020
The Wangaratta Festival of Jazz is a four-day annual celebration of jazz and blues which has been staged for over 23 years during the Melbourne Cup weekend.
Wantok Musik Thornbury $240,000
Wantok Music records, releases and promotes music from Indigenous Australia and Melanesia with an emphasis on mentoring, the transfer of skills and access.
West Space Inc. Melbourne $336,000
West Space is an artist-led organisation presenting contemporary art for Victorian audiences. The program includes exhibitions, performances, texts and publications, and public and educational programs.
Western Edge Youth Arts Footscray $320,000
Western Edge Youth Arts collaborates with young people under the age of 26 from diverse cultures to create artistic works that are complex and transformative.
Westside Circus Brunswick $240,000
Westside Circus is a community arts circus organisation working with young people aged 3-25 from diverse social, economic and cultural backgrounds.
Women's Circus Footscray $292,320
Women's Circus is a feminist arts organisation dedicated to enriching the lives of women and their communities through social circus and performance.
Writers Victoria Inc Melbourne $589,600
Writers Victoria is the peak body for writers in Victoria and provides information, resources and skills development opportunities to nurture, promote and assist its members.
Wurinbeena Limited Lake Tyers Beach $280,000
Wurinbeena is an Aboriginal organisation based in Lakes Entrance presenting contemporary Aboriginal arts and culture in East Gippsland and Victoria. The organisation operates Gunyah, a multi-purpose, wandering arts venue.


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West Ham close on deal for Uruguay striker
Posted by: Andy Dalziel January 27, 2019
West Ham United are close to agreeing a deal for Uruguayan striker Maxi Gomez, who is currently playing for Celta Vigo in Spain.
Gomez has a £44 million release clause in his contract which would be a record fee for West Ham, but one that, according to The Daily Mail they are ready to pay. However, Gomez has yet to be convinced that West Ham is the right club for him, and they may need to wait until the summer until they get their man.
West Ham are in the market for a new striker, with Marko Arnautuvic unsettled and told he can leave at the end of the season after his big money move to China fell through. Andy Carroll is out of contract in June, whilst Javier Hernandez has been linked with a move to Valencia. Meanwhile, Lucas Perez, a summer signing, has barely played and wants to go back to Spain.
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Cover Me Monday: Postmodern Jukebox
October 20, 2014 April 14, 2015 Derek
This week's installment is going to be a little different. Instead of focusing on a cover of a single song I figured I would put the spotlight on a band instead. Postmodern Jukebox, if you have not heard of them, is an assemblage of really talented singers and musicians who get organized by bandleader/pianist Scott Bradlee to perform re-imaginings of songs ranging from today's biggest pop hits to classic pop from the last few decades.
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Cover Me Monday: Rolling In The Deep
September 29, 2014 Derek
Aretha Franklin joins the millions of YouTubers around the world who have made cover versions of the Adele hit "Rolling In The Deep" as part of her upcoming cover record, DIVA CLASSICS where The Queen of Soul sings songs made famous by other musical divas.
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Cover Me Monday: Life Round Here
February 3, 2014 Derek
It's been a while since I did one of these but this seemed like a good time and song to do one since I had been listening to the remix (i guess that is what you'd call it) of "Life Round Here" by James Blake that he released with hip-hop artist Chance the Rapper and planned on posting it as a Shuffling On My iPod entry. But then I heard the cover by Ellie Goulding and Angel Haze.
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Cover Me Monday: I Say A Little Prayer
September 30, 2013 September 30, 2013 Derek
I have been in a bit of Burt Bacharach mood musically lately. Nothing soothes the savage beast like the polished production of the Bacharach oeuvre and while going through my iTunes collection of Bacharach songs I have listened to many of the same song being interpreted by different artists and it is something how Bacharach's songs lend themselves to reinvention without ever losing that quality that makes them so recognizable as a Bacharach song. One song in particular that I have been having an auditory duel with is "I Say A Little Prayer".
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Cover Me Monday: Pump Up The Jam
August 19, 2013 Derek
Now I know what you are thinking…who in the right mind would waste their time covering Technotronic's "Pump Up The Jam" of all songs? And their is no way it could possibly be any good, right?
Well the cover artists are a jazz trio from Canada called The Lost Fingers and they made the overly produced, synthesized dance hit from the 90s into a swinging, full-bodied jazzy barn burner that would get the flappers flapping in any speak-easy in the 1920s.
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Cover Me Monday: Never Give You Up
It has been a while since I have done one of these but the cover of this song inspired me to pull the old Cover Me Monday out of the mothballs. And don't be alarmed this isn't the Rick Astley song (that catchy bit of pop trifle is actually "Never Gonna Give You Up") and you are not being Rickrolled either. Scout's honor.
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Cover Me Monday: Blame It On The Sun
March 25, 2013 June 22, 2013 Derek
This installment of Cover Me Monday takes a look at one of my favorite songs from Stevie Wonder's seminal album TALKING BOOK.
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Cover Me Monday: You Keep Me Hanging On
One of the crowning achievements of the Holland-Dozier-Holland production team and a bit of a departure from the established Supremes sound, this is one of my favorite songs by the Supremes as well as one of my favorite Motown songs ever.
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Cover Me Monday: We Found Love
May 21, 2012 June 22, 2013 Derek
It's always interesting to me to hear how a song originally sung by a less than stellar vocalist sounds when attempted by someone with a real voice. That is why I like the Jessie J live version of Rihanna's "We Found Love". Rihanna is a total studio fabrication whose vocals sound like a mix between a robot and a rejected American Idol contestant. Jessie J on the other hand can actually sing. Sure she has a penchant for overindulging on ad libs and runs but when she is under control she is one of the best young voices in music. … Continue reading Cover Me Monday: We Found Love
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Cover Me Monday: Jolene
With a nod to blogging brethren jmount43 for the recommendations, I present to you this week's cover songapalooza featuring Dolly Parton's classic "Jolene" sung by both nascent alterna-folk singer Mindy Smith and the Norah Jones side band The Little Willies.
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Cover Me Monday: Ms Jackson
April 23, 2012 June 22, 2013 Derek
Doesn't this song make ya just want to run out and get a shaggy haircut, throw on a pair of skinny jeans and a too small ironic t-shirt, and be thoroughly nonplussed about everything? The Vines took one of my favorite rap tunes and flipped it upside down to make an entirely new musical experience. Outkast should be pleased. The Vines – Ms Jackson (Outkast Cover) Continue reading Cover Me Monday: Ms Jackson


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Well that's the championship right there, what an absolute fail by Ferrari, bad strategy and Quali mistake by Vettel has just thrown it away.
And here was me hoping for a final race fight to win the championship.
The 'trying to beat VER round a corner' move sealed it for me, desperate move and it showed.
I find this really hard to read, Merc have clearly gotten George into Williams somehow, yet they can't find Ocon a seat?
I'm looking forward to seeing 3 brits on the grid next year but it will be a shame if Ocon drops off the grid.
"RaceFans understands Ocon was unwilling to commit to Williams for more than a single season. He could be in the frame for a promotion to Mercedes at the end of 2019 when the team's option on Valtteri Bottas comes up for renewal.
Another driver in the frame for the Williams seat was Russell's F2 rival Artem Markelov. Williams had talks with the Renault test driver but failed to reach a deal. Markelov's father Valery was arrested in Russia earlier this month over a bribery charge involving Russian Railways, which has funded Artem's F2 career."
Interesting, so if Ocon ends up without a drive, it's because he believes that he IS going to replace Bottas by the end of next year. Right now, Merc would be silly to even consider replacing Bottas just yet. He might not like it, and I hope he has a lot better season next year, but right now he is the perfect number 2 driver. He's quick, so you can always count on him to be at the sharp end ignoring issues outside of his control and he's a team player who will do what's best for the team and not just himself.
And a pretty good race to finish it on, shame he didn't get the win too, I always think its nice if they get to be on the podium.
Ric is just having the worst luck, like I swear someone in Renault must be sabotaging him haha.
Verstappen ordered to carry out "two days of public service" due to his off track shoving.
There we go, another season done and dusted.
If anyone here gets withdrawal symptoms, Formula E's kicking off a new season on December 15th, and it should be a good'un: no more car swaps, BMW and Nissan are joining the fold - the latter currently scrambling to find a new second driver after Toro Rosso poached Alexander Albon from them - and Felipe Massa's returning to full-time racing!
I'm hoping with the BBC picking up the coverage from Channel 5 this season FE might get a bit more traction (pardon the pun). Gen2 car certainly looks the part.
I wasn't aware of that, I've never really followed FE too much. The races I did watch I found pretty boring, the nature of the street circuits I've seen felt like I was watching Monaco each and every time, very little chance for overtaking.
I have seen some pictures of the new FE cars and they do look amazing, however.
They're only gonna be showing one race live on TV for now; the rest are on the red button or iPlayer. Presumably, if it does well, they'll start airing more of them on BBC One or Two, but even the one race they pick to show - if not the season opener in Saudi Arabia, my money's on Monaco in May - will almost certainly blow last season's viewing figures on Channel 5/5Spike out of the water (motorsport on the BBC is sadly a rarity, nowadays, since they were forced to drop F1). There's gonna be four races shown live on Quest, too, their parent company Eurosport's still showing the whole season, and if all else fails, we can also finally (legally) watch the YouTube streams.
Yeh I'm gonna give the BBC a go, but not sure if it'll be HD on the red button...if it is then great, else I'll be going YouTube too.
Yeh I'll give you a fair few of the races have been a bit meh, but a few last season were amazing, I think Rome and Paris in particular.
It deff got better in season 4 where they could actually race at the pit stops rather than having a minimum time.
The championship protagonists were better this year too.


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Open Enrollment 2020: A Complicated Shot at Reinvention
Open enrollment is a complex process under even the best of circumstances. In a pandemic year, it's causing employees and employers alike massive headaches — but it's also offering us a shot at reinvention.
Employees were already big on their benefits before COVID-19 arrived on the scene. A February 2020 survey by Willis Towers Watson found that 37 percent of employees would prefer an improved benefits package over additional salary, and 57 percent said benefits were more important to them than ever. There's reason to believe benefits packages have only grown even more important to employees in the interim.
"There's no doubt that employees are looking for more comprehensive coverage, having witnessed the great toll that the pandemic has taken on individuals and families," says Amy Mosher, chief people officer at human capital management software provider isolved.
The chaos of 2020 has given employers all the more incentive to get open enrollment right this year by offering comprehensive packages and making the benefits selection process as painless as possible. Unfortunately, COVID-19 is throwing a wrench into things.
Being Generous Is Not Without Its Drawbacks
While benefits are more important than ever for employees, many employers now find themselves economically hamstrung when it comes to offering those benefits.
"Everyone is seeing these economic shifts," says Sushma Tripathi, vice president, strategic advisory services, at human resources management firm ADP. "Certain employers are actually doing okay, or doing better than expected, while others are not doing very well financially. Employers are looking at their pocketbooks to figure out what to offer and what not to offer."
Tripathi and Mosher both agree employers that can afford to be generous with benefits right now have been doing so, with some organizations extending coverage to employees they may not have been required to cover under the letter of the law. Mosher, for example, notes that some companies are covering longer periods of COBRA premiums.
But there's a downside to that generosity: Administering these expanded benefits can be a significant logistical challenge. And not every employer can afford to be so generous in the first place. A June 2020 survey from Mercer found that 12 percent of employers were expecting to take moderate cost-saving measures in terms of their benefits this year, while 3 percent expected to take significant measures. Now that we're in the middle of open enrollment, those numbers may well be higher.
Complicating matters even further, the shift to remote work has made open enrollment administration more difficult, according to Mosher. With employees distributed far and wide, a tech-driven enrollment process is a necessity, not a nice-to-have.
"HR technology is paramount to the open-enrollment process, as is the ability to comprehensively report and seamlessly communicate enrollment changes to providers via a file feed application programming interface," Mosher says. "Paper open enrollment just isn't possible anymore."
What Happens Now Can Affect Employee Coverage Next Year
Tripathi notes that an employee's reduction in hours or furloughed status in 2020 could affect their eligibility for healthcare in 2021 — and that employers have to be careful about stability periods when they drop employee coverage.
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), employers may determine an employee's eligibility for healthcare coverage using the look-back measurement method. Under this method, an employer determines an employee's eligibility during an upcoming stability period by looking back at the hours the employee worked during the previous measurement period. Employees who worked an average of 130 hours per month during the measurement period are eligible, regardless of how many hours they end up working during the stability period.
"The calculation for the ACA is complex, with several factors involved," Tripathi says. "It remains important to follow the eligibility definition under your plan eligibility rules as well as the ACA to avoid the shared responsibility penalty. Under the ACA, full-time employees who work 30 hours per week or 130 hours per month must be offered affordable, minimum essential coverage."
For example, if an employer is using a 12-month measurement period and an employee's reduction of hours or furloughed status drops them below the 130-hours-per-month average for 2020, then the employee may not be eligible for 2021 coverage. By a similar principle, employees who are currently in their stability periods cannot be dropped from coverage until the stability period ends, even if their hours have dipped below 130 per month on average.
"In a nutshell, it's the employer's plan rules that basically are going to cover whether a reduction in hours or a furlough event will result in loss of coverage," Tripathi says. "And employers should really make sure that they send out those COBRA notices if there is a loss of coverage."
Employees Are Reevaluating What Benefits Are Important to Them
Employers are trying to be as generous as they can while running up against very real financial and legal limitations. At the same time, employees are being driven by their "newfound awareness" around the importance of health benefits to offer "criticism regarding benefits that aren't working for them or that they don't understand the value of," Mosher says.
Mosher has noticed more and more employees asking for ancillary benefits like pet insurance, critical illness insurance, cancer coverage, and voluntary life insurance.
"They are contributing more to their FSA and HSA accounts to save for possible future out-of-pocket medical expenses and are more interested in income replacement plans," she adds.
Financially stressed employers may not be able to meet all of their employees' demands, but there are plenty of desirable voluntary benefits they could offer at no cost to themselves. Importantly — however employers choose to proceed — both Tripathi and Mosher stress the importance of proactivity and communication.
"Employees are especially sensitive that the cost of COVID to major health and welfare providers will negatively impact their coverage and rates for 2021," Mosher says. "HR leaders should consider the added anxiety of employees in this uncertain time, and the impact even small changes have on their well-being, and plan for change accordingly."
"We've seen employers acting judiciously," Tripathi says. "Group health plans are complex when it comes to eligibility and enrollment. Therefore, you'll need to review your plan documents and insurance contracts to assess all options for furlough benefits. There may be financial implications as well, so this requires careful consideration to ensure written documents outline the rules for your group health plan, including a definition for eligible employees."
Whenever an employer has to make a change — whether out of generosity or necessity — communication is key. Times are turbulent enough. Sudden or unexplained alterations of benefits offerings will only add to the chaos.
"[Employers] should plan to answer the why on any changes the company decides to make," Mosher says. "Weighing the cultural impact with the financial impact across the business is a smart move at a time when culture is more important than it has ever been. Decisions must be made to improve service levels and offerings that imply stability."
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Honoring Juneteenth: Local and National Opportunities and Resources
On June 19, 1865, news of the Emancipation Proclamation began to reach enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, more than two years after it had been signed. On that day, the slaves of Texas were finally emancipated and allowed free.
Many Black Americans began to celebrate June 19 with local celebrations, songs, fairs, and food. While Black Americans have long honored the day, it took more than a century for the first state, Texas, to formally mark it.
Now, all states but two recognize June 19 and Juneteenth. An upcoming bill in the House of Representatives to make the day a national holiday would take it a step further, giving millions of federal workers a day off – the first time the US would add a federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr Day in 1983.
Washington was just the sixth state in the nation, and the first in the Northwest, to commit to observing Juneteenth as a paid day off for state employees.
Juneteenth is not only a holiday commemorating freedom, but also one of action, education, participation, and the continuation to fight for equity, access, and opportunity. Northwest Folklife honors the history and communities that Juneteenth recognizes, and are excited to amplify the incredible range of events and opportunities, both virtual and in-person that you can participate in and support.
We have created a compilation of both virtual and in person celebrations of Juneteenth and some resources to further educate yourself on the event. These programs are offered from the Seattle local area and nationally.
The Northwest African American Museum also features robust programming and volunteer opportunities all week for Juneteenth, so check them out!
Local Events and Opportunities
Opportunity Time Location Details Link
It Takes a Village — Juneteenth Festival — We Out Here 2021 (weouthereseattle.com) SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 2021 From 11:00 AM To 5:00 PM OTHELLO PARK - 4351 S OTHELLO ST, SEATTLE Juneteenth by It Takes a Village creates a unique, annual event space to celebrate the Black community and learn about the Black experience while sharing in the diversity of culture that makes up our neighborhoods, connecting people to services and resources they need to live their best lives while enjoying a day spent in and with community, sharing food, ideas, goods, and more. https://www.weouthereseattle.com/2021-calendar/it-takes-a-village-juneteenth-festival/2021/6/19/it-takes-a-village-juneteenth-festival
MOHAI — 1619: Resistance / Resilience / Remembrance Saturday, June 19, 2021 at 2 pm VIRTUAL Celebrate Juneteenth with a special storytelling-hour featuring Mr. Delbert Richardson. During this hour, Mr. Richardson will highlight the resistance of his ancestors during the periods of American chattel slavery and Jim Crow, as well as focus on the resilience of Black brilliance. This online program draws from sections of the national award-winning American History Traveling Museum: The Unspoken Truths, which will be on display at MOHAI from June 18 through June 21, 2021. https://mohai.org/event/1619-resistance-resilience-remembrance/
Upcoming Juneteenth Events in Mukilteo, WA (stayhappening.com) SAT JUN 19 2021 AT 10:00 AM TO 07:00 PM Forest Park Everett, Wa. | Mukilteo Join us as we fight with Miss Opal Lee to make Juneteenth a National Holiday , and celebrate the freedom of our ancestors. We will have Black Owned food vendors, good music, giant yard games and more to celebrate our freedom. https://stayhappening.com/mukilteo--juneteenth
Blackout Healing Presents Juneteenth Yes Farm Kick Back — We Out Here 2021 (weouthereseattle.com) SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 2021 from 2:30 PM 8:00 PM YES FARM, 727 YESLER WAYSEATTLE, WA, 98104 This event is open to all Black identified folks of all ages and genders in celebration of our day of freedom. Music and Kick back from 3-6pm. 2:30 pm Welcome/ Orientation to Blackstar farmers and Yes Farm with Hannah Wilson 3:30 pm Healing Art with Aramis Hamer 5:00 pm Dinner by Mulu 6:00 pm Deep Roots: A Healing Ritual with Victoria Santos 8:00pm Close https://www.weouthereseattle.com/2021-calendar/blackout-healing-presents-juneteenth-yes-farm-kick-back/2021/6/19/blackout-healing-presents-juneteenth-yes-farm-kick-back
Juneteenth: None of us is free until all of us are free (facebook.com) SATURDAY, JUNE 19 at @ 10am Green Lake Juneteenth, also called Emancipation Day, or Juneteenth Independence Day, is a holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States observed annually on June 19th. Join us at Green Lake for a sign wave and picnic on SATURDAY, JUNE 19 at @ 10am in Seattle, WA https://m.facebook.com/events/2912165939039349?acontext=%7B%22action_history%22%3A%22%5B%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22page%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22main_list%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%5B%5D%7D%5D%22%7D&aref=0
Juneteenth Celebration – Global Grub & Groove – Issaquah Highlands FRIDAY, JUNE 19 @ 6 - 8 PM VILLAGE GREEN, ISSAQUAH We are excited for our first "Global Grub & Groove" event celebrating community and culture with food trucks and live music! Our first in the series is in celebration of Juneteenth to honor our African American neighbors. Bring your blanket or lawn chairs and join us at Village Green for live music by Michael Powers and delicious food from C. Davis Texas BBQ! The event is free to attend. Food is for purchase. https://www.issaquahhighlands.com/event/juneteenth-celebration-global-grub-groove/
Niles Edge Presents "No Healing, No Peace!" A Walking Meditation for Black Liberation — We Out Here 2021 (weouthereseattle.com) SATURDAY JUNE 19 @ 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM MLK JR. MEMORIAL PARK, 2200 MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR WAY SOUTH, SEATTLE, WA, 98144 Join Nile's Edge Healing Arts on June 19th, 2021 for a guided walking meditation in Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Memorial Park (2200 MLK Jr. Way S., Seattle, WA) from 10am-1pm. This meditation is to provide participants a moment of reflection, grounding, and spiritual awareness around Juneteenth and the resilience of Black people in America. https://www.weouthereseattle.com/2021-calendar/niles-edge-presents-morning-meditation/2021/6/19/niles-edge-presents-morning-meditation
Juneteenth Week: 2021 Artist Collective 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM VIRTUAL Juneteenth Week: 2021 Artist Collective
Juneteenth honors and celebrates the emancipation of the enslaved people in the United States. The Diversity, Equality, and Inclusivity Committee of the Space Needle & Chihuly Garden and Glass, alongside the Northwest African American Museum, One Vibe Africa, and Wa Na Wari, are celebrating this day by raising the voices of Black and African American artists in an Artist Collective broadcast premiering on Friday, June 18. https://www.naamnw.org/events/juneteenth-artist-collective
Juneteenth Week: Jamboree 6/19/2021 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM Judkins Park - 2150 South Norman StreetSeattle, WA, 98144United States NAAM and Rec'N The Streets (City of Seattle Parks & Rec) present the Juneteenth Jamboree! Full of family fun, recreation, and activity from local professional sports teams, this will be a Juneteenth you won't forget! https://www.naamnw.org/events/juneteenth-jamboree
Africatown-Central District and King County Equity Now Freedom March & People's Assembly SATURDAY JUNE 19 AND SUNDAY 6/20 AT 1 PM 22ND AND MADISON We are hosting a New Orleans style, Black freedom parade starting at 1pm on 22rd and Madison. Black 2021 graduates, an all-Black drumline, and a Black elder caravan will lead the parade through the Central District - Seattle's historically Black neighborhood. Community leaders will point out historic markers and pay homage to the many Black entrepreneurs and leaders, including William Grose, who helped build the Black enclave. The march will culminate at Jimi Hendrix Park for a celebration and will include performances by Sevyn Streeter and more. https://www.kingcountyequitynow.com/juneteenth21
GIVE BLACK WA We are a collective of Black organizations unifying for the liberation of all Black people. Black people are multi talented and multi fabulous, and we show up at various intersections of being, including but not limited to Immigrant, Trans, Gender Non Binary and Non Conforming, faith lineages, LGBTQIA, family structures, ability, and levels of wealth or poverty. https://giveblackwashington.wixsite.com/giveblackwashington
National Events and Opportunities
Description of Activity Organization To Sign Up
Smithsonian Digital Volunteers: Freedmen's Bureau Project. Volunteer opportunity to help transcribe handwritten records from the Freedman's Bureau. In addition to helping make these records accessible online for the public, volunteers will have the opportunity to learn more about the experiences of formerly enslaved men and women in the Washington, D.C., area during the Reconstruction Era. Smithsonian Digital Volunteers:
Transcription Center-Freedmen's Bureau Project Click here to volunteer
Freedom Calling: Interactive Tour with Founding Director Lonnie Bunch III, a tour through the Slavery and Freedom exhibition specifically to celebrate Juneteenth. National Museum of African American History and Culture Click here to view
The NMAAHC Collection: An incredible virtual collection on a variety of topics to explore. National Museum of African American History and Culture Click here to view
"Explore More!": An additional virtual NMAAHC collection using Google 3D photography technology to virtually see and explore historical objects and artifacts. National Museum of African American History and Culture Click here to view
Rendering Justice Virtual Tour: Dejay Duckett, Director of Curatorial Services, leads a virtual tour of the Rendering Justice exhibition with Curator Jesse Krimes. The exhibition features art by and about incarcerated individuals. African American Museum in Philadelphia Click here to view
Slavery Narratives - Museum of the African Diaspora notes: The enslavement of the African peoples, the transatlantic slave trade, and the plantation system that followed initiated the largest sustained commercial trading of human beings in history. Some scholars estimate that more than 20 million Africans were transported to the New World. The few slave narratives that are presented in this exhibit reflect only a fraction of the millions upon millions of stories that could have been told by people who had the misfortune to toil under the yoke of slavery. Museum of the African Diaspora (moadsf.org) Click here to view
Monumental Reckoning - With Illuminate and See Black Womyn, Museum of the African Diaspora will co-present Monumental Reckoning, an art installation in Golden Gate Park commemorating the 350 enslaved Africans who arrived in the Americas in 1619. Museum of the African Diaspora (moadsf.org) Click here to view
Roundtable|Rock 'n' Roll Heretics: Shredding While Black and Female - This multigenerational dialogue will highlight the intersectional journeys of Black women guitarists in rock, literature, and music education. Drawing from Sikivu Hutchinson's new Black feminist road novel, Rock 'n' Roll Heretic: The Life and Times of Rory Tharpe, the discussion will explore Black women rockers' perspectives on confronting racism/sexism/ageism and homophobia in corporate rock, defying cultural and gender expectations in the Black community, honoring unsung Black rock heroines, and lifting up Gen Z Black girl rock musicians. Museum of the African Diaspora (moadsf.org) Click here to view
Lecture and Demonstration| A Celebration of African American Social Dances with Traci Bartlow - Let's celebrate Juneteenth with dance! In this two-hour workshop, we will move through time from West Africa to the Harlem Renaissance and through the New Millennium to celebrate the rich heritage of African American social dances! This event is facilitated by cultural archivist Traci Bartlow and will intersperse lecture and movement from different eras. Come ready to dance as we celebrate Juneteenth and honor the health, vitality, and wellness of our bodies and community while paying homage to African American dance traditions. Museum of the African Diaspora (moadsf.org) Click here to view
"Juneteenth and the Blues" with Marcus Shelby – "Juneteenth and the Blues" will be an hour-long presentation and discussion by composer, bassist, and bandleader Marcus Shelby about the importance and historical significance of Juneteenth in Black American culture. The presentation will include music, readings, poetry, and observations on the legacy of June 19, 1865—the date Africans in Galveston, Texas, were freed long after the Emancipation Proclamation. Marcus Anthony Shelby is a composer, bassist, bandleader, and educator who currently lives in San Francisco. His work focuses on the history, present, and future of African American lives, social movements, and music education. Museum of the African Diaspora (moadsf.org) https://www.facebook.com/events/843785799478854/
Suggested Documentaries and Readings
Name Description Availability
High on the Hog This documentary discusses the origins of "soul food" and its importance and contributions to "fine dining." It also provides a provocative lesson on Black history and touches on the roots of Juneteenth. Netflix
13th In this thought-provoking documentary, scholars, activists and politicians analyze the criminalization of African Americans and the U.S. prison boom. Netflix
A Time to Be Remembered (A Juneteenth Story) This is a documentary film about slavery in America and the people and events that led to slavery's abolition. Included in the film is the history of famous real people and events involved in the anti-slavery movement; like Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln, the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, Dred Scott, and the song "Amazing Grace" which was written by John Newton, a former slave ship captain turned minister Apple TV
History of Juneteenth Presented by Dr. Shennette Garrett-Scott Wednesday, June 19, at the Allen Public Library. Her program traces the history of Juneteenth events from the late nineteenth century freedmen colonys'' and settlements' celebrations to the present community events. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIi_53jihMM
Juneteenth: The Significance of June 19 By coincidence, several momentous events in the history of American Civil Rights have occurred on or near June 19. James A. Garfield National Historic Site Manager Todd Arrington takes you on a tour of the most important Juneteenths in our nation's history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G54oVSAmsB8
Surviving the Tulsa Race Massacre: Voices of Resistance Then and Now Please join us for this presentation and discussion. Hear from survivors of the Tulsa Massacre in their own words including the Late John Hope Franklin and the late Olivia Hooker, along with Filmmaker and Historian Brittney Cooper, Scholar and Researcher John Whittington Franklin, and Historian Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, ASALH National President as we remember this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrQS2iS0DE0
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Art therapist Ella Donovan says good-bye for good to the alcoholic grandmother who raised her and the cold, Podunk Minnesota town she grew up in. She arrives in a charming, antebellum city of colorful bridges and gleaming beaches for a dream job working with teen addicts. But not all is as it seems in a place where the Confederate flag still flies over the downtown courthouse. Nearly unhinged by a boss who wants her to fail, Southern gentleman who aren't so gentlemanly and a corrupt social service system complicated by an escalating AIDS crisis, Ella struggles to find her footing. Just when she thinks she's mastered it all, family secrets threaten to uproot the very foundation of her identity. Two Spoons of Bitter explores the legacy of generations of betrayal and unfinished business. Ella must excavate her deepest wounds in order to redeem the past and heal her own life.
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Iowa Inventors Hoping for a Hit
Posted 10:52 pm, February 27, 2018, by Andy Fales, Updated at 10:53PM, February 27, 2018
AMES, Iowa -- Crack!
That's the sound of success.
"We all want it to just work so that kids hit and hit better," says Rob Kibbe of Ames, admiring his new invention.
Meet the Magic Tee. The brain child of local baseball dads tired of the same old, traditional batting tee.
"You can make a good swing and the tee falls over!" gripes co-developer and little league coach, Ryan McGuire. "Well what kind of feedback is that?"
Pick it up, put it back, isn't there a better way?
McGuire vented to his friend, Kibbe.
"He said 'You know, I was teaching my kids how to swing and I just wish I could find a way to hang the ball because their swing motion would just be so much easier,'" said Kibbe.
Kibbe is a mechanical engineer.
"I thought well how hard could that be? You just need some suction to hold the ball in place, right?"
He got right to work in his garage, and it wasn't long before he called McGuire with good news.
"He had this crazy contraption on an engine hoist and a Shop Vac all hooked up," McGuire laughed, "and it worked!"
But the journey from that first prototype to the sleek, rechargeable Magic Tee? THAT was a challenge, even for Kibbe.
"You know how hard it is to print a 3D base that's this big?" he gestured, arms wide. "It's hard! It took like six months and 18 tries."
But here it is—a revolution in hitting. The sweet spot of the ball, now exposed to the bat--allowing professional instructors like Mike Jensen to preach the modern baseball gospel of "launch angles" and practice it, too.
"It feels exactly like hitting a ball that's being pitched," said Jensen, after putting the Magic Tee through a thorough workout.
But the ultimate goal is to see this hit carry outside the state--to a national market.
To help with that, enter Sam Schill and Nathan Haila.
They're product developers but also little league dads who saw Magic Tee help their own kids.
"I put him on the Magic Tee and the first ball he hit off of it, he hit it over the fence. So that's when I was like 'I think we might be onto something, here.'"
"People are looking for things like this all the time," added Schill.
They shot a slick video, featuring McGuire.
The video will be part of Magic Tee's campaign on social media and the crowdfunding site, Kickstarter. There, customers will commit to buy the Magic Tee, and when enough commitments are made, production will begin.
The question is, is a $400 batting tee something people want?
"We believe it is," Schill said. "Everyone's telling us 'Hey, I want one of those!' but now Kickstarter's really the way that we're going to roll out to check to see if we're right."
For decades, hitting tools have come and gone. The ones that have stuck have been the ones that have kept working.
"We want them to drag it to the field as use it," said McGuire, "take it home, charge it up and be able to use it the next day."
In an age where we're spending small fortunes on our children's sports, the Magic Tee seems like a safe bet.
Safe, but not certain.
"As cool as it sounds, it's also really scary," said Kibbe, of his new venture as an entrepreneur. "We've got to be in a position where if we go get this and we're successful, we're shipping product, and it better work, no matter what."
Magic Tee could ship by the end of the year, meaning more hits, pings, and shots could soon be heard around the world. If you're interested in the product, you can pre-order one now on the product's Kickstarter page. The creators need to secure $70,000 in pre-orders before production can begin.
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Jessica A. Franks was charged with public drunkenness and illegal use of inhalants in connection to the incident, which happened around 11:32 p.m. in a shopping center on the 2000 block of Fruitville Pike in Lancaster.
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Wyoming Health Council (WHC) has served communities across Wyoming since 1990. Originally funded only through Title X, WHC has grown in scope and become more fiscally diverse since its early days, enabling it to reach more Wyoming residents. Amidst the changing health care economy, WHC has matured into an organization that has received and maintained funding through contracts with the Wyoming Department of Health, HIV organizations, local hospitals including a unique faith-based community nursing program, the federal Office of Women's Health, additional Title X grants for males and HIV integration, and a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) 330 grant to serve migrant populations.
WHC distributes Title X funds to nine agencies across the state, including private, stand-alone nonprofits, local health departments, and public health nursing organizations. A handful of WHC-funded health centers are located in towns surrounding universities or community colleges, and while they provide a broad range of services to the general public, they also provide services and education geared towards college students. In 2011, WHC's delegates served 11,916 clients; 89% were female and 66% had an annual income at or below 100% of the federal poverty level (FPL).
Through its Title X male services grant, WHC has been able to increase its community outreach specifically to males. As a result, WHC has seen a steady jump in the number of males receiving services in its system. Through its HIV integration grant, WHC has been able to provide more HIV testing and screening.
In order to address the needs of migrant populations located in rural Wyoming, WHC sought and received a HRSA 330 grant starting in 1997, and has been fortunate to have been funded through this program ever since. The grant provides WHC with critical resources to help improve the health status of migrant and seasonal farm workers and their families through the provision of high-quality primary and preventive health care services. The program recognizes the need for health care management among this predominantly Hispanic population, and addresses the economic, language, and cultural barriers that prevent them from accessing needed services.
Nurse practitioners make up 85% of the service providers within the WHC network. Every health center in the network has a medical director, a certified nurse midwife or nurse practitioner, and a physician that performs chart reviews. Some health centers have physician assistants who provide services as well. Some of WHC's health centers have one full-time nurse practitioner, while most others have nurse practitioners who work part-time in their centers and spend the rest of their time in private practice and/or teaching nursing classes at local universities. Though staffing can sometimes be a challenge, WHC works hard to ensure that its providers are up-to-date in their training and cognizant of guidelines pertinent to Title X and the other funding streams they receive.
WHC partners with several community-wide organizations, including but not limited to the United Way, local foundations, NARAL Pro-Choice Wyoming (NARAL WY), Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains (PPRM), and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The partnerships with the United Way and local foundations help foster funding opportunities for WHC delegates. An example of a project that has come to fruition through local foundation partnerships is funding being given to cover the cost of providing colposcopies. With NARAL WY, WHC staff often go on legislative visits representing the voice of family planning providers and their clients. With PPRM, ACLU, and NARAL WY, WHC has created brochures about emergency contraception (EC), explaining EC's purpose, where it is available around the state (at pharmacies and health centers, including hours of operation), and its cost. These brochures are available at WHC health centers, safe houses, and college campuses, among other locations.
Health centers within the WHC network employ varied methods of community outreach in schools, as Wyoming school districts have local control over educational requirements. Some school systems' curricula provide for community outreach staff from the local family planning health center to be brought in to provide education, whereas some curricula require such education be provided by a medical professional. WHC also contributes to the Wyoming Department of Education's adolescent risk reduction program via funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Division of Adolescent School Health (DASH). Many WHC delegate agencies have relationships with universities/ community colleges; most of the schools have invited WHC providers to attend and present at educational functions, in addition to having actual clinic days in spaces provided by the school for conducting family planning-related exams. The clinic days guarantee a point of entry for these college students who may not otherwise receive vital family planning services.
In 2007, WHC was invited to collaborate with the Wyoming Office of the Attorney General and the Wyoming Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault to develop a statewide strategic plan about sexual violence prevention. The coalition contracted with a local university to perform a statewide needs assessment, from which they learned to target women and men, ages 12 to 24. Since then, WHC and the coalition have developed an ongoing project for sexual violence prevention across the state, focusing on the primary prevention approach. Each year, the coalition releases a request for proposal for two $4,000 mini-grants; two communities per year are chosen to participate. The coalition asks applicants to already be an established community group; some groups that have participated in the past include, but are not limited to: the local domestic violence/sexual assault program, local school district, law enforcement, Title X agencies, youthserving agencies, and public health centers. In every community that is selected to participate, the coalition performs a needs assessment, using Colorado State University's Community Readiness Model, including eight to 10 telephone interviews. They then use the readiness model to engage community members to foster readiness and collective action to move forward in efforts to prevent sexual violence.
After the communities develop their individual plans, WHC and the coalition provide technical assistance to help them figure out how they will mobilize and educate members of their community about sexual violence and prevention of it. After nine months have passed, WHC returns to the community to perform follow-up assessments to measure the level of change. Annually, every community engaged in the project has substantially increased their readiness, not only mobilizing their community to prevent sexual violence but also to actually incorporate sustainable measures to keep their citizens engaged in these efforts for the long run. One community started a men's bystander focus group. Another focused on engaging their school district, and implemented policy change around sexual violence in the schools. One community, located in a very politically conservative area where there was a lack of safety for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ) students, started providing guidance for how to address this population; they developed their first ever Gay-Straight Alliance at their high school with the support of their principal. This community in particular has made its mark on the map, and was recently acknowledged by the Huffington Post as one of the top 10 communities safest for LGBTQ populations.
Through funding from the Wyoming Department of Health's HIV Prevention Program, WHC has established an ongoing photo voice project. WHC's first participant was Wind River UNITY Council, a youth group on an Indian reservation, where they established the Wind River UNITY Photo Voice for Healthy Relationships: Sharing our Stories to Promote Social Justice program. WHC worked with six young adults, ages 18-22 years old. They taught them about healthy relationships, gave them cameras and asked them to take photos of people, places, and things that both support and challenge their ability to have healthy relationships. The participants also took pictures of what a healthy relationship meant to them personally. When the pictures started coming in, WHC analyzed them and immediately saw emerging themes. WHC realized that these young people needed to have connections with their cultural heritage, and that it was vital that any health care and prevention work be presented to them in a culturally competent manner. Their knowledge about healthy relationships seemed to lie within their cultural heritage.
WHC has taken their findings from this project on the road, and has presented at the National Title X HIV Conference, as well as the National Mental Health Policy Research Conference. They've used their findings to work with elders in communities and health care providers/educators to help facilitate what the young people in their communities need and deserve. WHC also presented at the tribal grantees Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) conference and wrote an article in the Alaska Native and American Journal of Mental Health. After completion of their first photo voice initiative with the Wind River UNITY Council, WHC led a second photo voice project with a group of high school students in another community; emerging themes of not marginalizing LGBTQ students surfaced. The importance of these students feeling connected in their schools and fostering avenues for them to feel connected in their communities was vital. Supporting them to foster healthy relationships and healthy development were the community's focus coming out of the project. The findings from this project have also been presented at many conferences.
WHC does not fundraise in the community, although its delegate agencies engage in and depend upon many fundraising events throughout the year. This type of fundraising has become especially vital as the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) nears and agencies work to adapt to the new health care economy. WHC agencies work hard to put on a variety of creative fundraising activities in the community that bring in diverse crowds of supporters. Some innovative ideas that WHC delegates have utilized include a crab feast and a silent auction, a rodeo, a glow walk at night, and "vino and vittles." To ensure the success of such events, the agencies dedicate a lot of time to publicity, bring in volunteers including their Board of Directors and staff, sell merchandise, and seek donations of venues and food. The average revenue for these events after expenses ranges between $9,000 and $11,000 per event.
Several of the health centers in the WHC network operate under different electronic health record (EHR) systems, which have posed varying degrees of challenge. For example, one of the health centers has had a system for four years and is no longer able to access technical assistance to make necessary adjustments; the center will soon require a more updated system. Another health center is on a state-sponsored EHR system, which is good for primary care but not ideal for family planning. WHC is in the process of assessing whether a more centralized billing and EHR system for family planning could be developed for its delegates. WHC has formed an advisory committee to assess the best path to take for a common EHR system, made up of representatives from several of its delegate agencies. Members of the advisory committee come from different areas of the state that have varying internet access/speed, different levels of EHR systems, or no EHR system at all. The diverse experiences of the committee members are helping to ensure that any EHR solution will work for all.
In addition to its work on EHR, WHC is evaluating where else it might commit resources to help its agencies adapt to the ACA. WHC staff meets with health center directors quarterly, including two face-to-face meetings, to discuss key issues including ACA implementation at the federal level as well as any changes being implemented within the WHC network. Like Title X grantees across the country, WHC is facing difficulties with budget cuts and a difficult political climate, but with its dedication to innovation, its system hopes to remain viable for many years to come.


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Q: Resolve circular import issue I am creating an app using Flask with MongoEngine to connect to MongoDB.
My folder structure looks like this:
app/
    __init__.py
    mod_users/
        __init__.py
        constants.py
        forms.py
        models.py
        views.py
    mod_games/
        __init__.py
        constants.py
        forms.py
        models.py
        views.py

Let's say my User and Game models are like the following:
mod_users/models.py
class User(db.Document):
    email = db.EmailField()
    username = db.StringField()
    password = db.StringField()

mod_games/models.py
from app.mod_users.models import User

class Game(db.Document):
    title = db.StringField()
    creator = db.ReferenceField(User, reverse_delete_rule=db.CASCADE)
    likes_count = db.IntField()

Now, my problem is that I would like the User to have a list of the game he likes. But I cannot use a reference field because I would have to import Game which would create a circular import.
This won't work:
from app.mod_games.models import Game

class User(db.Document):
    email = db.EmailField()
    username = db.StringField()
    password = db.StringField()
    liked_games = db.ListField(
        db.ReferenceField(Game, reverse_delete_rule=db.PULL)
    )

I thought about storing in every game a list of users who liked it, and then adding a static method in Game that would retrieve
a list of liked Game for a given user, but that doesn't seem to be a clean and efficient way to resolve this.

A: M:N relationships to be modelled via Association class
Game and User have a relationship, where one Game can be liked by any number of Users and one User can like any number of Games.
This is typical M:N relationship, and this is to be modelled by an association class (take it as class modelling rule).
The class should have:

*

*reference to User

*reference to Game

*any additional properties of this particular relationship, e.g. how many stars the use gave to this game.

The tuple User - Game must be unique.
When defining this type of class, you import from User and from Game module.
User and Game shall not import this association class (otherwise you would enter into circular references problem again)

A: Although you have an answer - MongoEngine does cater for this as you can pass the string name of the class to a reference field eg:
class User(db.Document):
    email = db.EmailField()
    username = db.StringField()
    password = db.StringField()
    liked_games = db.ListField(
        db.ReferenceField('Game', reverse_delete_rule=db.PULL)
    )

A: As it was mentioned before you can pass a string name of a model to a reference field. That is the first thing you should do to avoid circular imports:
class User(db.Document):
    company = db.ReferenceField('Company')

But when you have a method that uses some model, let's say, to aggregate some data, this way above doesn't helps - you still may get an circular imports issue. To resolve this try get_document function. See example below.
from mongoengine.base.common import get_document as get_model

class User(db.Document):
    # fields definition omitted

    def get_games(self):
        Game = get_model('Game')
        games = Game.objects.filter(user=self.pk)
        # some code here

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