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Home Arts & Entertainment Culture 10 countries where royalty still reigns
10 countries where royalty still reigns
Janhvi Singh
The period of mighty kings and queens is long passed for the majority of the world. Today's royalty may have a lot of money and celebrity, but they don't have much political clout.
However, monarchs still have "actual" power in the following countries. As part of a "constitutional monarchy," most of these kings must share legal and political decision-making with an elected or appointed administration. However, a few people have managed to keep complete control of their country's government.
Brunei is small enough to go unnoticed by most people. It is located on a sliver of land off the northern coast of Borneo, almost fully encircled by Malaysia. The Sultan of Brunei is the country's ruler. The sultan, whose given name is Hassanal Bolkiah, is part of a royal family, the House of Bolkiah, that has been in power since the early 15th century and is worth about $20 billion because of his tiny nation's oil fortune.
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Even though the country has a constitution and a partially publicly elected legislative body, Bolkiah is both the head of state and the prime minister, giving him the political ability to steer the country in whatever direction he sees fit.
He has been chastised both at home and internationally for lately introducing an extremely severe interpretation of Sharia law into this predominantly Muslim country.
Swaziland, a tiny country sandwiched between South Africa and Mozambique, has a political dynamic similar to Brunei's. Mswati III, the current monarch, ascended to the throne at the age of 18 after his father died.
Many members of parliament are appointed directly by him, however, a handful is elected by popular vote. Mswati is well-known for his extravagant lifestyle and serial polygamy. He had 15 wives at the time of his death.
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Though he has taken some moves to improve democracy in his country, both Swazis and human rights organizations such as Amnesty International have criticized him for the limited breadth of these reforms.
Saudi Arabia has one of the world's most well-known absolute monarchs. King Salman (Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud) ascended to the throne in 2015. All Saudi kings have hailed from the House of Saud since the early 1920s, while the family governed substantial areas of the Arabian Peninsula for centuries before that.
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Saudi royal succession is paritally based on seniority, although any fellow prince can be elevated to the top of the line by a committee of Saudi princes if he is viewed as a good leader. This is in stark contrast to Western-style monarchs, which have rigid norms governing royal succession based on seniority.
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Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, Bhutan's current king, took the throne in 2006. He is a member of the Wangchuck clan, which has ruled Bhutan since the early twentieth century. Wangchuck has presided over substantial democratic reforms initiated by his father. Bhutan has transitioned from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy with a publicly elected legislature in recent years.
Wangchuck is a well-liked king, thanks in part to his attractive appearance and media-savvy attitude. His wedding in 2011 was the most watched media event in Bhutan. He makes charitable excursions to remote communities regularly to distribute land to impoverished people.
However, in addition to these public relations activities, the new Bhutanese constitution provides him the real right to reject laws adopted by the parliament and to personally choose members of the country's court
Monaco is the world's second-smallest autonomous country in terms of land area. Its king, Prince Albert II, is the official head of state and has considerable political influence. Albert is a member of the Grimaldi family, which has controlled Monaco intermittently for centuries.
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The prince is in charge of introducing new legislation, which must subsequently be passed by the National Council, which is elected by the people. Albert is also in charge of Monaco's judicial branch. He is the son of actress Grace Kelly and Monaco's previous prince, Rainier III, whose tax policies turned the kingdom into a haven for wealthy Europeans.
Bahrain, a tiny13 actress who has portrayed Queen Elizabeth II on screen peninsula in the Persian Gulf, has made international headlines in recent years due to violent pro-democracy rallies. Sheikh Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa, who became "king" in 2002 after altering his title from "emir," rules the country. He has ruled in practice since 1999. Since 1970, his uncle, Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, has been Bahrain's sole prime minister (he is currently the longest-serving prime minister in the world).
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The bicameral legislature consists of one house with members directly elected by the people and one house with members appointed by the king. Because every legislation must be approved by a majority in both houses, Sheikh Hamad wields authority over the entire legislative process through his appointees. He also has the authority to veto any laws passed by the government. Political protests in Bahrain have been ongoing since 2011.
Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein, along with Prince Albert of Monaco, is one of Europe's few remaining monarchs with actual political power.
He retains the right to veto laws and appoint judges, thanks to a new monarch-friendly constitution. The prince is also responsible for appointing government officials, including the prime minister. He also has the authority to dissolve parliament.
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In practice, Hans-Adam II's son, Prince Alois, is in charge of the majority of the day-to-day chores of reigning. Although they are unelected leaders, both father and son are immensely popular in Liechtenstein. A referendum in 2012 to limit the prince's ability to veto laws was defeated by a three-quarters majority.
Though it is significantly different from the other kingdoms on this list, Vatican City is technically an absolute monarchy. It is, however, a unique "elective monarchy," with a college of cardinals electing a pope, now Pope Francis, to reign over the world's Roman Catholic Church as well as to be the political leader of Vatican City.
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Though he selects cardinals (all of whom must be ordained Catholic priests) to supervise various day-to-day matters, the pope has the authority to dismiss anyone from their position and change any rules or customs of Vatican City at any moment. Many people regard him as the sole absolute monarch still governing in Europe because of his vast powers. In practice, however, the pope focuses on spiritual leadership while appointing other trusted officials to govern the Vatican's political concerns.
The UAE is a federation of seven distinct kingdoms (emirates), each with its own sovereign. The most well-known emirates are Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and their absolute monarchs wield the most influence among the seven members.
However, all seven emirs serve on the Federal Supreme Council, which controls the country's activities. This group appoints several ministries, advisors, and 20 of the National Council's 40 members.
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The remaining 20 National Council Members are chosen by members of an electoral college rather than by popular voting. Dubai and Abu Dhabi, as well as the other emirates to a lesser extent, are recognized for their rapid modernization, with the emirs undertaking enormous and ambitious development projects to attract investment and visitors.
Oman, yet another Arabian Peninsula country with a king (the formal title is "sultan"), has been ruled by Qaboos bin Said al Said since 1970. He ascended to power by a palace coup, deposing his father, who was exiled to England and died two years later. Sultan Qaboos has recently implemented political changes, including the first-ever parliamentary elections.
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Oman maintained a decent amount of wealth under the Sultan, despite its status as an absolute monarchy. The country is considered more open and liberal than other theocratic Arabian Peninsula states, and government spending on healthcare and education is significant.
However, critics have compared Qaboos to a tyrant, claiming that he has greater total authority over his country than any other monarch in the world.
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Chairman's Blog No 10 - ps Lincoln Castle.
By the time you read this, you should have had a letter in your latest Paddle Wheels concerning, our offer of the PS Lincoln Castle currently moored in Grimsby. I will avoid muddying the waters with too much detail about the visit and my impressions, as one of the chief drivers as to what happens next will be the surveyors report, based on fact, rather than my relatively uneducated impressions based on a cursory visual inpsections.
It is however vitally important that we know "the will of the people" so please please please take the time to respond to the questionaire in the letter. If we are to move forward on this it must be in the knowledge that this is a move broadly supported by the membership. Equally if we let her go for scrap (this is the alternative intended, albeit with great reluctance by the owner if we do not proceed) it must be in the knowledge that this is because this is what the society as a whole believed appropriate.
The idea behind this blog is simply to let you have a good look round the ship, inside and out.
These three pictures give a general view of the ship as she is berthed in Grimsby, by the very well signposted Fishing Heritage Centre.
The first place we visited was the car deck and the equivalent on Waverley of the Promenade Deck. The original wood decking has been overlaid with steel chequer plate. Of note along the starboard side is the added bar structure which, it would not be too unkind to say probably began life as a large garden shed at B & Q! What these photos fail to convey is the vast expanse of deck space. With the sponsons extending well aft, there really is a huge amount of space.
As the rain was getting heavier we retreated indoors for a look around the engine room. Considering that the vessel was operating as a pub /resturant, a suprising amount of loving care had been lavished on the non revenue earning part of the ship - and with a flick of a switch, the owner had the engines turning for us!
Next a look at the lower deck passenger spaces. First off, the "Grand staircase" leads down from the port and starboard alleyways to the lower bar aft. Almost exected to see Kate Winslet make a grand arrival, Titanic style! The lower bar has a significantly greater amount of headroom than Waverley, about 7 ft anyway. The next pic is in the lower bar forward area, the equivalent of the entire crew accomodation space on Waverley.
What I haven't shown here are photos I took of where the boiler used to be which is now a rather modern looking galley and each of the bunkers which are now bar and catering stores.
Above, some view from the main deck forward bar. The first view is looking aft, down the starboard side. Again it's hard to convey the size if this space which is filled somewhat by having the bar bang in the middle! The next photo is looking aft from further back on the starboard side and I guess the stairs leading down to the lower forward bar as described above are roughly in the same position as the crew accomodation stairs on Waverley.
I also took a fair few photos of things like the bilges for the purposes of a technical record but they are, to be honest, a bit boring for inclusion here! In any event, matters such as the material condition ohe shell plating are best left to be determined by the surveyor. There are cement repairs in the bilges as a means of addressing "pinholing". They vary from about 1/2 thick screeding, up to about 2-3" thick rather than the image most of us might have of a cement Box Repair of wooden shuttering surrounding about a foot deep block of cement. However I must repeat these visual observations are largely worthless and will be much better informed by the surveyor's report.
Stuart Mears
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Steam Launches on Loch Katrine
During the SS Sir Walter Scott rededication day on Loch Katrine last year the 110 year old steam ship was joined (temporarily) by 2 steam launches. At the following link you can see Neil Warbrick's pictures of the splendid steam launch Dalmore (with a familiar face on board) at the event:
SL Dalmore at Trossachs, Loch Katrine, 2009
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The Land of the Heederum, Haderum Ho!
A few YouTubes just to get you in the mood for Waverley's upcoming visit to the Inner Hrbrides in late May (with apologies for the almost legendary YouTube mis-match of audio and video - outwith the poster's control!):
The first part is taken from a production called 'Highland Voyage', which was based on the crew of a 'puffer' on he West Coast of Scotland.
A 'puffer' is a steam lighter, a type of small cargo vessel developed for use on the west coast of Scotland - they could be no longer than 66 feet so that they would fit in the locks of the Forth & Clyde Canal but the 'outside boats' had to be good enough sea-boats to take on the Atlantic swell as they plied their trade, summer and winter, to the Inner and Outer Hebrides. Often, when there was no convenient harbour or pier, they would intentionally run over a sandy beach at mid tide and wait until the tide went out, resting on their flat bottom, before discharging their cargo of coal or whatever directly into a horse drawn cart or lorry on the beach. They had sturdy hulls in case they rested onto a projecting rock which could set-up the keel but most of the old time puffer skippers knew the landing beaches like the lines on the back of their hands. The name 'puffer' originated from the early boats which were fitted with a simple expansion (single cylinder), reciprocating steam engine with no condenser or air pump. Therefore, the exhaust steam from the engine was emitted via the funnel to atmosphere as puffs of condensate with each stroke of the engine. There was an accompanying sound but, from a distance, you would see the 'puff' before you heard it (due to the relative speed of light and sound - something you can still experience if you are Watching Waverley from a distance when the steam whistle is blown). The puffer engine drow a single screw propeller fitted on the centreline. As a result you couldn't 'kick' the stern in the way that you can with modern twin screw coaster. This was usually offset partly by a very large rudder (but usually not a balanced one). Puffer skippers were good ship handlers - they had to be given some of the tight locations that they had to get their vessels into and out of without the assistance of modern aids such as bow thrusters and echo sounders.
The biggest firm of Puffer operators were J & J Hay, which also built many of their own fleet and for other fleets at their shipyard at Kirkintilloch on the F&C Canal. Nowadays, Kirkintilloch is not commonly thought of as a centre of shipbuilding but at one time it had two busy shipyards churning out many new vessels each year and carrying out repair and maintenance of existing boats. The history of shipbuilding at 'Kirkie' is a fascinating one in itself, well related in the late Ian Bowman's book 'Kirkintilloch Shipbuilding' published by Strathkelvin District Libraries in 1983 (sadly long out of print now)
The 'crew' of the puffer in the 'Highland Voyage' were composed of Scottish actors Duncan Macrae (skipper), Roddy McMillan (the 'Mate',who later played the role of skipper Para Handy in he 1960s version of the TV series 'The Vital Spark'), Alex Mackenzie (who played Peter MacTaggart, the skipper of the puffer that was the central theme of the 1954 Ealing Studios movie called 'The Maggie') and John Grieve (who played the part of the deckhand in Highland Voyage but is much better remembered for his portrayal of Dan Macphail, the legendary 'enchineer' of the Vital Spark.
The 1960s BBC Scotland series 'The Vital Spark' with Roddy McMillan as the skipper Para Handy (Peter MacFarlane), Walter Carr playing the Mate, Dougie and John Grieve playing engineer Dan MacPhail was loosely based on Neil Munro's 'Para Handy Tales'. The later (1990s) BBC Scotland series 'The Tales of Para Handy', with Gregor Fisher playing the role of Para Handy and Rikki Fulton as Dan Macphail, was more closely based on Munro's original work.
The deck scenes in 'Highland Voyage' were shot on the puffer Saxon, a product of Hay's yard at Kirkintilloch and mainly remembered nowadays for its association with the town of Millport on the Isle of Great Cumbrae.
The Second part has some gems in it including Duncan Macrae recitation of the 'Puffers Voyage' followed up by John Grieve's unforgettable rendition of 'Its the Crinan Canal for Me!'. The puffer in the Canal shots is the 'Toward Lass, one of the last surviving of the traditional puffers which is still well remembered from her latter years at her base in the Victoria Harbour in Greenock - her main duties latterly were a regular, short run across the Firth to remove 'trash' and scrap from the controversial American sumarine base at Holy Loch . She and her sisters Cloch Lass and Cumbrae Lass (all named after prominent Clyde lighthouses) were owned originally by the Burke family from Ettrick Bay on the Isle of Bute.
The concluding part has a wee bit repetition but is well worth the watching - also a kind of time warp with a much later excerpt of the 1970s MacBrayne Small Isles mail boat Lochmor, which also ran through the Sound of Sleat and the fast tide race in the Kylerhea on the service between the great herring port of Mallaig, terminus of the North British Railway Company's West Highland Railway and the Skye Railway terminus at Kyle of Lochalsh. Obviously this was not part of the original 'Highland Voyage' film but I think it comes from a BBC Scotland compilation, part of which was a nostalgic commentary by John Grieve (I think it was made not long before he died). Sadly, it is a few years now since Waverley made the sailing up to Kyle and it is not included in her 2010 schedule. This is regretable because the sailings that she has run up to Portree and beyond are amongst the finest that she has ever done but latterly the support for these midweek sailings has not been sufficient to justify her visits. Those that have managed to do these sailings in the past will be hopeful that they can be repeated, at least occasionally, in future. The scenery, including unsurpassable views of the Black and the Red Cuillins, especially in the gloaming with the sun setting in the west, is awesome (a much overworked word but justified in this instance).
Slightly off-subject but another bit of nostalgia for those of us that have been sailing through the Hebrides for as long as we can remember - the following film comprises rare footage of the construction of the three sister ships Hebrides, Clansman and Columba during their building and launch from the Hall Russell shipyard in Aberdeen in 1963-64. I barely remember this (I was only 7 years old at the time) but I can clearly remember my first sailing on any of the three ships - on the Columba from Oban to Craignure and Lochaline some time in 1964. It was a day most memorable for the almost incessant rain which forced us to stay inside the comfortable and warm lounge. Unfortunatly the term 'Observation Lounge' was not very fitting as the high set lounge windows meant you could see nothing of the scenery from a seated position. For my grandparents, more used to the views from the lounge of the magnificent Oban-based MacBrayne excursion turbine steamer King George V and her likes, this new vessel was definitely not progress. Although I developed a liking for these vessels in subsequent years (particularly the Hebrides) my grandparents never did - well the KGV was a trully mangificent ship, even though she didn't like her original high pressure Babcock & Wilcox boilers!
Mention of Kyle of Lochalsh brings back some memories of fondly recalled MacBrayne mailboat Loch Seaforth, built on the Clyde in the same year as Waverley, which connected Stornoway, capital of the Isle of Lewis, with the railheads at Mallaig and Kyle, where she is seen in the following film - at the end there is a shot view of the swing deck vehicle ferryboat Kyleakin (built by James Lamont at Port Glasgow) at Kyleakin with two typical MacBrayne buses in attendance. At that time David MacBrayne Ltd still operated a fleet of buses and freight lorries as well as their world renowned steamer fleet. David MacBrayne Ltd still exists to this day as the parent company of CalMac Ferries Ltd (Caledonian MacBrayne), Cowal Ferries Ltd and Northlink Ferries. The Company can retrace its origins to 1851 when it was formed as David Hutcheson & Co (David MacBrayne was the '& Co' junior partner at that time). It became David MacBrayne in 1879. The MacBrayne family lived at MacBrayne Hall, one of the magnificent town houses in architect Charles Wilson's Park Circus development on Woodlands Hill in Glasgow's west end.
For the first time in many years an opportunity to sail through the Crinan Canal is being offered duirng the holiday weekend at the beginning of May 2010. The venture is being organised by Iain Quinn and Clyde Marine Services Ltd using their motor vessel Rover. Clyde Marine Services, operated by the Munro family, has been serving users of the river and Firth of Clyde for 90 years. Currently they operate a fleet of modern small excursion vessels and a small but very versatile and practical modern tug fleet. Over the last 35 years CMS have been extremely supportive and practically helpful in the long running effort to maintain Waverley on an operational basis and this is continuing as any profits from the special sailings on the Rover in May will go towards Waverley's preservation. Therefore, it is an excellent time for the Scottish Branch to record their gratitude to CMS management and staff for their crucial support. More information on these Crinan Canal sailings can be found here

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Earlier this term, P6 had the pleasure of visiting W5 to participate in a Forensic Science workshop. As part of our Super Scientists topic, we have been learning about the various strands of science, and thoroughly enjoyed exploring the elements of forensics, including fingerprint analysis, chromatography and fibre analysis to uncover clues from a crime scene!
We also enjoyed the other exhibitions W5 has to offer, particularly loving our very favourite 'Climbit' adventure climbing frame!
Check out some photos from our trip!


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As long as it is said in faith and for a particular spiritual benefit.
Even though St. Joseph never spoke a word in scripture, his silent example of obedient faithfulness and diligent care for the Holy Family during Jesus' formative years has made him one of the most beloved saints of Christianity.
Devotion to the foster-father of Jesus is generally traced to the 3rd or 4th century, but according to the Pieta prayer book, there is a prayer to St. Joseph that dates to the year 50.
O St. Joseph, whose protection is so great, so strong, so prompt before the throne of God, I place in you all my interest and desires.
O St. Joseph, do assist me by your powerful intercession, and obtain for me from your divine Son all spiritual blessings, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So that, having engaged here below your heavenly power, I may offer my thanksgiving and homage to the most loving of Fathers.
O St. Joseph, I never weary of contemplating you, and Jesus asleep in your arms; I dare not approach while He reposes near your heart. Press Him close in my name and kiss His fine head for me and ask Him to return the kiss when I draw my dying breath. St. Joseph, patron of departing souls, pray for me. Amen.
Remember, God always answers our prayers. We may not always expect the response we receive.


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PROGRAMA BOGOTÁ39 EN BOGOTÁ
El Hay Festival presentó la lista final de Bogotá39-2017, seleccionando a 39 de los mejores escritores de ficción menores de 40 años de América Latina, con el objetivo de celebrar la buena literatura, y resaltando el talento y la diversidad de la producción literaria en la región. Para promocionar su trabajo se han escogido 14 editoriales independientes con la intención de vincular literatura de calidad con editoriales locales relevantes. Los autores colaboraron en la edición con un cuento o un extracto de sus trabajos. La antología también fue publicada traducida al inglés.
La selección final corrió a cargo de un jurado compuesto de tres escritores de importante renombre, Darío Jaramillo (Colombia), Leila Guerriero (Argentina) y Carmen Boullosa (México), a quienes les correspondió la tarea de leer y conversar sobre el trabajo de los postulados, para seleccionar la lista definitiva. La fecha del anuncio coincidió con el décimo aniversario del primer Bogotá39, que se celebró en el marco de Bogotá Capital Mundial del Libro 2007. Lista Bogotá39-2007
ÁLVAREZ, Carlos Manuel
A Journalism graduate from the University of Havana. In 2013 he won the Calendario Prize for the short story collection La tarde de los sucesos definitivos (Abril, 2014; Criatura, 2015). In 2015 he won the Nuevas Plumas Ibero-American Fiction Prize. In 2016 he founded El Estornudo, an independent Cuban magazine of literary journalism. That same year, the Ochenteros programme, run by the Guadalajara International Book Fair, recognized him as one of twenty Latin American authors born in the 1980s to look out for. He has published regularly with media and publications such as The New York Times, the BBC, Gatopardo, El Malpensante and Internazionale. In 2017, Sexto Piso published La tribu, a collection of essays on post-revolutionary Cuba. The Fallen (Fitcarraldo Editions, 2019) is his first novel.
BÁEZ, Frank
Frank Báez is a Dominican poet and fiction writer, and has published six poetry books, a book of short stories and two works of non-fiction. He was on the Bogotá 39-2017 list of the most promising writers aged 39 or under. His latest book is Lo que trajo el mar.
BORGES POLESSO, Natalia
She is a writer and educator. Born in southern Brazil, she studied English and Portuguese Literature, and has a Master's in Literature, Culture and Regionalism. She took her doctorate in Literary Theory at the PUCRS, for which she wrote the thesis: Literatura e cidade: cartografias metafóricas e memória insolúvel de Porto Alegre (1897-2013), which passed with summa cum laude. She is the author of Recortes para álbum de fotografia sem gente (2013), and also won the Açorianos Literature Prize, the most important award in Rio Grande del Sur, in the short story category, in 2013. Coração a corda (2015), her second book, presents a selection of poems and short stories in poetic prose. Amora (2015), her latest book of short stories, won the AGES (Associação gaúcha de writeres) award as book of the year in 2016; the Açorianos Literature Prize in 2016; and came first in the 2016 Jabuti Prize.
CAPUTO, Giuseppe
(Barranquilla, 1982) He studied Creative Writing at the University of New York with teachers such as Diamela Eltit, Sergio Chejfec and Antonio Muñoz Molina; and at the University of Iowa with teachers including Horacio Castellanos Moya, Marilynne Robinson and Luis Muñoz. In Iowa he also specialized in Queer and Gender Studies. Un mundo huérfano (2016) is his first novel. Included on the Hay Festival's Bogota 39-2017 list of the 39 best Latin American fiction writers under 40. He was Cultural Manager of the Bogota International Book Fair, FILBo, between 2015 and 2018. He currently works on the Creative Writing Master's Programme at the Caro y Cuervo Institute in Bogota. His latest novel is Estrella madre (2020).
CÁRDENAS, Juan
He is the author of the novels Zumbido (451 Editores, 2010/ Periférica, 2017), Los estratos (Periférica, 2013), Ornamento (Periférica, 2015), Tú y yo, una novelita rusa (Cajón de sastre, 2016) and El diablo de las provincias (Periférica, 2017). He has published the short story collections Carreras delictivas (451 Editores, 2008). His novel Los estratos won the 6th Otras Voces Otros Ámbitos Prize in 2014. Zumbido and Ornamento have been translated into French (Moisson Rouge, 2012) and Italian (Sur Edizioni, upcoming), respectively. His latest work is Elástico de sombra. He is currently one of the coordinators of the Master's in Creative Writing at the Caro y Cuervo Institute, where he works as an educator and researcher. He lived in Spain between 1998 and 2014 and currently resides in Bogotá. He works regularly as an art curator and critic.
CÁRDENAS, Mauro Javier
Mauro Javier Cárdenas was born and brought up in Guayaquil, Ecuador and studied Economics at the University of Stanford. He is the author of The Revolutionaries Try Again (Coffee House Press, Sept 2016; Literatura Random House, 2018). His work has appeared in Conjunctions, The Antioch Review, Guernica, Witness, ZYZZYVA and BOMB. He won the 2016 Joseph Henry Jackson Prize.
CARO, María José
(Lima, 1985) A graduate in Social Communication from the University of Lima with a Master's in Communication Studies from Madrid's Complutense University. She has published the book of short stories La primaria (2012) and contributed to literary magazines such as Buensalvaje and Vicio absurdo. Her work features in the Palo y Astilla: Padre e hijos en el cuento peruano (2009) anthology and she appeared at the first Lima Imaginada literary event in 2015. She has recently published her last book, Black-Eyed Dog.
CASTAGNET, Martín Felipe
Martín Felipe Castagnet was born in La Plata (Argentina) in May 1986. This translator and humanities doctorate is the Associate Editor of the bilingual magazine The Buenos Aires Review and is a member of the editorial committee of Alkmene magazine on literature and translation, under the auspices of the Fondation Jan Michalski pour l'Écriture et la Littérature.
His novel Los cuerpos del verano (Factotum, 2012) was unanimous winner of the 2012 Latin American Young Writers' Award organized by the Maison des Écrivains Étrangers et des Traducteurs de Saint-Nazaire, and by La Marelle, Villa des projets d'auteurs, Marseilles, France. It has been translated into French (MEET, 2012) and into English as Bodies of Summer (Dalkey Archive Press, 2017). His second novel, Los mantras modernos, was published in April this year by Sigilo.
He has published various stories in a range of media. He has participated as a resident author at the Maison des Écrivains Étrangers et des Traducteurs in Saint-Nazaire (November and December 2012); La Marelle, Villa des projets d'auteurs in Marseilles (January and February 2013); the Reflection and Exchange Residency as part of the Buenos Aires International Literature Festival (from 27 September to 2 October 2016); and on the Excellence Fellowship as part of the Special Programme for Foreigners run by the Mexican Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AMEXCID), with the support of the Casa Refugio Citlaltépetl, under the writer Alberto Chimal (from November 2016 to January 2017).
COLANZI, Liliana
She has published the short story collections Vacaciones permanentes (2010), La ola (2014) and Nuestro mundo muerto (2016). Nuestro mundo muerto is currently being translated into English, French and Italian. She co-edited the non-fiction anthology Conductas erráticas (2009) and edited the bilingual anthology Mesías/Messiah (2013). She won the Mexican Aura Estrada literary prize in 2015 and has contributed to publications such as Granta, Letras Libres, El País, The White Review and El Deber. She lives in Ithaca, New York State, and lectures in Latin American Literature at Cornell University.
CONSTAÍN, Juan Esteban
Born in 1979 in Popayán, Colombia, in 2004 he published his first book, Los mártires, a collection of fictional works about writers. In 2007 he published El naufragio del Imperio, and in 2010 ¡Calcio!, which won him the Espartaco Historical Novel Prize at Gijon's Semana Negra. In May 2014, El hombre que no fue Jueves was released, and subsequently it won the Biblioteca Prize for Colombian Fiction. His last book, published in 2019, is Álvaro: Su vida y su siglo.
He writes for El Tiempo newspaper and has three daughters.
COPACABANA, Lola
A writer and translator (English/Rio Plata Spanish), she co-manages the Momofuku publishing company (www.momofuku.com.ar). A Psychology graduate, she will begin a Master's in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa this year.
In 2006 she published Buena leche - Diarios de una joven (no tan) formal (Editorial Sudamericana), a first volume of memoir that includes stories written by the author between the ages of nineteen and twenty-three. In 2013 she edited and translated, together with Hernán Vanoli, Alt lit - literatura norteamericana actual (Interzona) which is a selection of young US writers. Author of the novel Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Momofuku, 2015), in 2015 she translated a book of short stories by the young US writer Paula Bomer: Bebé y otros cuentos (Momofuku).
Stories by her have appeared in Argentinean and other anthologies. One example is her story Hasta que se enfríen un poco las cosas, in Uno más ocho (Reservoir Books, Barcelona, 2016).
ELTESCH, Gonzalo
Gonzalo Eltesch has a degree in Literature and another in Publishing from the Diego Portales University. He has worked as an editor at Penguin Random House since 2008, where he currently holds the position of Literary Manager. His work has been recognized on various occasions, and he was shortlisted for the 2016 Municipal Literature Prize for Colección particular (Libros del Laurel), his first novel, published in September 2015.
ERLAN, Diego
Diego Erlan was born in San Miguel de Tucumán in 1979. Since the 1990s he has lived in Buenos Aires, where he studied Social Communication and Art History. For 14 years he wrote about art, literature and film for Clarín, where he also held the position of editor in the Literature and Books section of Ñ magazine. He has also worked as a university lecturer, television screenwriter and cultural critic for media in Argentina and further afield. In 2009 he coordinated the Manifiesto cycle of aesthetic discussion while he was completing El amor nos destrozará (Tusquets, 2012), his first novel. In 2013 he was shortlisted for the Gabriel García Márquez Journalism Award for his report La larga risa de todos estos años. In 2016 he published his second novel, La disolución (Tusquets). That year he received a National Arts Fund fellowship to write the biography of the Argentinean writer Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, a project that he has been working on for the last five years.
FERREIRA, Daniel
Daniel Ferreira (Colombia, 21 July 1981) is a writer and blogger. He is the author of La balada de los bandoleros baladíes (2010 Sergio Galindo Latin American Novel Prize) and Viaje al interior de una gota de sangre (2011 Alba Latin American Fiction Prize). With Rebelión de los oficios inútiles he won the Clarín Novel Prize in Argentina. These three volumes belong to his Colombia Pentalogy.
FONSECA, Carlos
Carlos Fonseca is a Costa Rican-Puerto Rican writer, born in 1987. He is the author of the novels Coronel Lágrimas (Anagrama 2015), published recently in English by Restless Books with the same title, and Museo Animal (Anagrama 2017). He was chosen during the last Guadalajara Book Fair as part of the Ochenteros programme, which is a selection of twenty promising writers born during the 1980s. He has contributed to publications such as The Guardian, Letras Libres, BOMB Magazine, Quimera and Otra Parte. His stories have been included in anthologies such as Estados Hispanos de América (Sudaquia 2016) and Organismos (Sed, 2017), and have been translated into English, French and German. He currently lives in London and lectures in Latin American Literature at Cambridge University.
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GONZÁLEZ BERTOLINO, Damián
Author of the volume of short stories, El increíble Springer, which won the 16th Narradores de la Banda Oriental Fiction Prize, and which was published by Ediciones de la Banda Oriental (Montevideo, 2009); this book was later republished by Estuario Editora (Montevideo, 2014) and Editorial Entropía (Buenos Aires, 2015). He has also published the novels El fondo (Estuario, Montevideo, 2013) and Los trabajos del amor (Estuario, Montevideo, 2015). In 2016 he was included in the Guadalajara International Book Fair's Ochenteros list of twenty new voices in Latin American fiction to look out for. He lives in Punta del Este, where he teaches Literature at the secondary school level. His novel Herodes will be published soon.
GUTIÉRREZ NEGRÓN, Sergio
A novelist, columnist and translator. He is the author of the novels Palacio (Libros AC, San Juan), which was shortlisted for a PEN Club award in the year of its publication (2011); and Dicen que los dormidos (ICP, San Juan). This second novel won the Puerto Rico Cultural Institute's National Novel Prize and was later published by the institution in 2014. In 2015, it was given the New Voices Prize for promising Puerto Rican authors at the Festival de la Palabra. That year, the writer was included in the Latinoamérica Viva selection of Latin American novelists chosen by the Guadalajara International Book Fair. In 2016, the New York magazine Brooklyn Rail published a translation of one of his stories as part of a selection of three authors representing recent Puerto Rican literature. He contributes to El Nuevo Día with the monthly column, Buscapié. His stories and essays have appeared in various magazines and anthologies in Puerto Rico and further afield. His lastest novel is Los días hábiles, which has been recently puiblished.
JAUREGUI, Gabriela
Gabriela Jauregui (b.Mexico City) is the author of Controlled Decay (Akashic, 2008), and two hybrid genre books, Leash Seeks lost Bitch (Song Cave 2015) and ManyFiestas (Gato Negro, 2017) as well as a book of short stories in Spanish (La memoria de las cosas, or The Memory of Things, 2015) and the feminist anthology Tsunami (Sexto Piso, 2018). She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Southern California, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California Riverside and an MA in Comparative Literature and Critical Theory from the University of California, Irvine. She is founding editor at Surplus Ediciones publishing collective in Mexico. She is a Soros New American Fellow (2007) has been named one of the 39 best Latin American authors under 39 by the Hay Festival's Bogota39 list.
JUFRESA, Laia
Laia Jufresa grew up in the cloud forest of Veracruz and spent her adolescence in Paris. In 2001, she moved to Mexico City and discovered she didn't know how to cross a street. She's been writing fiction ever since. She is the author of the short stories collection El esquinista (FETA, 2014) and the novel Umami (Literatura Random House, 2015). Umami has been published in seven languages, won the PEN Translates Award, was chosen as the best first novel in Spanish at the 2016 First Novel Festival in Chambéry, France, and is a finalist for The Best Translated Book Award 2017 (USA). Laia was named on the 2015 Mexico20 list of outstanding Mexican writers under 40, and the 2017 Bogota39 of young Latin American writers.
LIBERTELLA, Mauro
This writer has four published books to his name: Mi libro enterrado (Mansalva, 2013), a novel about the death of his father and their relationship. It has been published in Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Costa Rica and Peru and has been translated into Italian. El invierno con mi generación (Random House, 2015), a novel about a group of friends –aged between 16 to 23– in Buenos Aires at the turn of the 21st century. El estilo de los otros (University Diego Portales, 2015), a book of conversations with 18 contemporary Latin American fiction writers. Un reino demasiado breve (Random House, 2017), a novel about the evolution of the love of a man after experiencing three different relationships. Together with Mi libro enterrado y El invierno con mi generación, this last novel can be read as the continiuum of a trilogy.
LOZANO, Brenda
Brenda Lozano (Mexico City, 1981) is a novelist and essayist whose work has appeared in several anthologies. She studied Latin American literature and is a fellow of the FONCA Young Artist programme, and has had various writing residencies abroad. She edits the Spanish-language fiction in translation section of MAKE literary magazine. Todo nada (Tusquets, 2009) is her first novel - which is currently being adapted for the cinema - and Cuaderno ideal (Alfaguara, 2014) her second. She lives in New York and is studying at NYU.
LUISELLI, Valeria
Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions and Lost Children Archive. She is the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, The Carnegie Medal, an American Book Award, and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the Booker Prize. She has been a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree and the recipient of a Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney's, among other publications, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is a Writer in Residence at Bard College and lives in New York City.
MILLS, Alan
His poetry has been included in prestigious Spanish-language anthologies during the last ten years (Cuerpo Plural, Puertas abiertas, and others) and has been translated into German, French, English, Portuguese, Italian and Czech.
His more recent work has been creative non-fiction and fiction. His micro-novel Síncopes was published in Mexico and Peru (2007) and later published in French by the Rouge Inside company (2010). His most recent book is a literary non-fiction work in English about the hacker culture and ancestral strategies of resistance. It is called Hacking Coyote, and was published first as an ebook (mikrotext, 2016) and later as a printed book in Germany (mikrotext, 2017).
He has lived in Guatemala City, Paris, Madrid, Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires. He has been a DAAD fellow and currently lives in Berlin, working on a doctoral thesis about indigenista science fiction.
MONGE, Emiliano
(Mexico, 1978) He has published the book of short stories Arrastrar esa sombra (Sexto Piso, 2008), shortlisted from the Antonin Artaud Prize; the novels Morirse de memoria (Sexto Piso, 2009), El cielo árido (Literatura Random House, 2012), winner of the 28th Jaén Novel Prize and the 5th Otras Voces, Otros Ámbitos Prize; and the children's book Los insectos invisibles (Sexto Piso, 2013). He was also included in the short story anthology Lo desorden, published in 2013 by Alfaguara. He is currently a member of the Mexican Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte network. His work was included in the Mexico20 book, a compilation of work of the best Mexican writers under 40. He is part of the Bogota39-20174's list. His latest books are called No contar todo y Tejer la oscuridad.
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OJEDA, Mónica
(Ecuador, 1988) She is the author of the novels La desfiguración Silva (Alba Fiction Prize, 2014), Nefando (Candaya, 2016) and Mandíbula (Candaya, 2018), as well as the poetry collection El ciclo de las piedras (Rastro de la Iguana, 2015). Her stories have been published in the anthology Emergencias. Doce cuentos iberoamericanos (Candaya, 2015) and in Caninas (Editorial Turbina, 2017). She was selected as one of the most important literary voices in Latin America for the Hay Festival's Bogotá39 2017.
PLAZA, Eduardo
(La Serena, 1982) is a Chilean writer and journalist, author of the story collection Hienas (2016, Librosdementira). He was shortlisted for the Paula short story competition (2014) and the Gabriela Mistral Literary Games, organized by the Municipality of Santiago (2015).
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RABASA, Eduardo
(Mexico City, 1978) He studied Politics at UNAM, where he submitted a thesis on the concept of power in the work of George Orwell. He writes a weekly column for Milenio and has translated books by authors such as Morris Berman, George Orwell and Somerset Maugham. In 2002 he was one of the founding members of the publishing house Sexto Piso, where he has since worked as an editor. La suma de los ceros was his first novel and has recently published La cinta negra. He was featured in the anthology México20, a selection of work by Mexican writers under forty, which was published in English (Pushkin Press) and in Spanish (Malpaso).
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RESTREPO POMBO, Felipe
Felipe Restrepo Pombo (Bogotá, 1978) is a Colombian journalist, editor, and author. In 2017 he was included in the Bogotá39 list of the best Latin American writers under forty, organized by the Hay Festival every decade. He is the author of the novel The Art of Vanishing; two collections of journalistic profiles; and a biography of the painter Francis Bacon. His work has been translated into English, French, and Dutch. In 2013 he was a guest editor for Paris Match magazine. He is the editor behind the books The Sorrows of Mexico and Crónica: The Best Narrative Journalism in Latin America (2016-2018). In 2018 he was chosen by the British Council as the Writer in Residence in The Hay Festival in Wales. He teaches narrative journalism throughout the United States and Latin America. He was the editor-in-chief of Gatopardo magazine for six years.
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ROBLES, Juan Manuel
(Lima, 1978) He has a Master's in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University (NYU). He has published Lima freak. Vidas insólitas en una ciudad perturbada (Planeta, 2007), Nuevos juguetes de la guerra fría (Seix Barral, 2015) and No somos cazafantasmas (Seix Barral, 2018). The author's reports have appeared in the magazines Etiqueta Negra, Letras Libres, Vice and Eñe. He was one of the shortlisted writers for the García Márquez Prize. He is one of the selected authors for Bogotá 39 list, which in 2017 brought together the best young writers in Latin America.
ROMERO, Cristian
He studied Audiovisual and Multimedia Communication at the University of Antioquia. In 2015 he received an Artistic and Cultural Creation For Life fellowship from the city of Medellin, in the short story – new writer category. The book he wrote with the fellowship, Ahora solo queda la ciudad (Hilo de plata Editores), was published in 2016. The short story El niño sin brazo belongs to this book. That same year he was shortlisted for the La cueva de Barranquilla Short Story Competition and obtained second place in the Short Stories for Long Waits Competition run by the Pereira Literature Festival. He has published stories in the University of Antioquia magazine.
RONCONE, Juan Pablo
Born in Arica, Chile 1982, and aged nineteen he moved to Santiago. In 2007 he won the Roberto Bolaño Award for Literary Creation with an unpublished novel. In 2011 he published the short story collection Hermano ciervo (Editorial Los Libros Que Leo, 2011; Fiordo Editorial, 2012; Marbot Ediciones, 2012; Sudaquia Editores, 2013; and Laurel Editores, 2014 and 2016), which won the Santiago Municipal Literature Prize. Some of the stories from this book have been translated into English and have appeared in magazines such as New York's Tweed's, Berlin's Sand, and the Tel Aviv The Short Story Project, as well as in the Traviesa anthology Childless Parents.
SALDAÑA PARÍS, Daniel
(Mexico City, 1984) Author of the poetry book La máquina autobiográfica (2012), and of the novels Among Strange Victims (2016) and El nervio principal (2018). He wrote the prologue to, and selected works for, Doce en punto. Poesía chilena reciente (2012) and Un nuevo modo. Antología de narrativa mexicana actual (2012). He has been a National Fund for Culture and the Arts fellow (2006 and 2016) and his work has appeared in publications such as El País, Gatopardo, La Tempestad, Qué Pasa, BOMB! and The Guardian. In 2019 he won de Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award. His novel Principio de mediocridad is soon to be published.
SCHEWBLIN, Samanta
Born in 1978 in Buenos Aires, she studied Film, specializing in screenplay writing. Her short story collections El núcleo del disturbio, Pájaros en la boca and Siete casas vacías have won the Casa de las Américas, Juan Rulfo and Ribera del Duero Short Fiction prizes. Fever Dream, her first novel, won the Tigre Juan and Estado Crítico prizes and has been nominated for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. Samanta Schweblin's writings have been translated into more than twenty languages and she has been a fellow of several institutions. She has lived in Mexico, Italy and China and has been living in Berlin for the last four years, where she writes and gives literary workshops.
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SOTO, Jesús Miguel
(Caracas, 1981). He studied Social Communication and Arts at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. He has worked as a university lecturer, proofreader and editor. As a fiction writer he has written the short story collection Perdidos en Frog and the novels La máscara de cuero and El caso Boeuf (Relato a la manera de Cambridge). Awards include winning the 64th El Nacional Annual Short Story Competition (Venezuela); first prize in the 7th SACVEN National Story Competition and the 23rd Juana Santacruz Literary Event (Mexico). Some of his stories have been published in anthologies such as Joven narrativa venezolana II, De qué va el cuento (Antología del relato venezolano 2000-2012) and Crude Words. Contemporary writing from Venezuela. Recently he has been selected as one of the 39 best Latin American fiction writers under 40 years of age in the Bogota39 event. Since 2014 he has been living in Mexico.
SOUSA, Luciana
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1986. She studied Journalism and Arts and took a number of fiction courses with writers such as Alberto Laiseca, Vicente Battista, Juan Terranova and Juan Diego Incardona. She has worked with media such as Radio Gráfica, Agencia Paco Urondo and Hecho en Buenos Aires, supporting self-managed popular communication projects. She currently works in the newspaper industry. Luro, published in December 2016 by Editorial Funesiana, is her first novel.
TORRES, Mariana
Born in Angra dos Reis (Brazil) in 1981, and was brought up there, although she spent much time in Argentina. She currently lives in Madrid.
She has a degree in Screenwriting from ECAM and has been teaching Creative Writing since 2005. She is a partner and founder of the Escuela de Escritores.
Her first short story collection, El cuerpo secreto, was published in Páginas de Espuma in 2015. She has written two feature films: Mudanzas and El refugio. She has also co-written the short film A cara o cruz (2008) and directed the short Rascacielos.
She is part of the European Association of Creative Writing Programmes (EACWP).
She has published stores in a number of anthologies, including Segunda parábola de los talentos (Gens Ediciones, 2011). Her work will be included in the next volume of UNAM's Sólo cuento.
TRUJILLO, Valentín
Born in Maldonado, Uruguay, in June 1979. He has two children and lives in in Montevideo. He studied Film at Cinemateca Uruguaya and qualified as a teacher of Language and Literature in Maldonado. He worked as an educator between 2001 and 2006. He co-edited the literary magazines MAT and Iscariote, in Maldonado and studied Journalism at the Universidad Católica del Uruguay. From 2005 to 2015 he worked as a journalist at the El Observador newspaper in Montevideo. In 2016 he received the Medal of Honour awarded by Uruguay's Cámara del Libro for his contributions to journalistic literary criticism. He has also contributed articles to magazines such as Quiroga (Uruguay).
In 2007 he published the book of short stories Jaula de costillas which won him the National Fiction Prize, and in 2013 he published Nacional 88 together with his wife, the journalist Elena Risso. In 2016 he won the Onetti Prize in the Fiction category for his novel ¡Cómanse la ropa!, due to be published in 2017. Also in 2016 one of his stories was included in the anthology 13 que cuentan, published by Banda Oriental. He has edited, with Ediciones B, the biography of the Uruguayan intellectual Carlos Real de Azúa.
ULLOA DONOSO, Claudia
Graduated in Sociology and Linguistics. She currently lives in northern Norway and works as a language teacher. In 1996 she came first in her category in the Terminemos short story competition organized by the Unión Latina, the Spanish Consulate in Lima and El Comercio newspaper. In 1998 she came first in the El cuento de las 1000 palabras competition and in 2003 third in El cuento de las 2000 palabras, both organized by the magazine Caretas (Lima). In 2016 she was selected as writer-in-residence at Villa Sarkia, a residence for translators and writers in Finland. Her stories have appeared in a number of Peruvian, Mexican and Spanish electronic and printed magazines as well as in anthologies such as Antología de la Novísima Narrativa Breve Hispanoamericana 2006, organized and published by the Unión Latina, Nuevo Cuento Latinoamericano. Antología, published in Madrid by Julio Ortega, Les bonnes nouvelles de l'Amérique latine. Anthologie de la nouvelle latino-américaine contemporaine, published by Gallimard, and others.
ZUÑIGA, Diego
He studied Journalism at the Pontificia Universidad Católica. He has published the novels Camanchaca (La Calabaza del Diablo, 2009; Literatura Random House, 2012) and Racimo (Literatura Random House, 2014), as well as the book about football Soy de Católica (Lolita Editores, 2014) and the short story collection Niños héroes (Literatura Random House, 2016). He has won various awards, including the 2008 Roberto Bolaño Prize for Young Writers (Novel category); a National Council for Culture and the Arts Fellowship for Literary Writing in 2008 and 2013; the 2009 Gabriela Mistral Literary Games Prize for Camanchaca; and a 2013 National Council for Culture and the Arts Prize for Best Literary Works, in the Unpublished Novel category, for Racimo. Furthermore, for his journalism, he has received the 2012 MAGs National Magazine Prize (Culture category) and the 2013 Excellence in Journalism Prize (Culture category), from the Alberto Hurtado University. In 2016 he was the writer-in-residence at the Arts Faculty of the Pontificia Universidad Católica.
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DyaTribal Band Instrumental, Music, Vocal Dyatribal is a World Music experience often featuring live tribal dancers & Brazilian capoeira. Indian Ragas provide a musical foundation to extend into funk, blues, Appalachian, Brazilian, Cumbia, even a touch of hip hop. Composed of: Deborah Axé: Vocalist, songwriter, singing in 5 languages including Spanish, English, Portuguese, Sanskrit & Arabic. Raised on the blues, she combines a three & a half octave range & the ability to hold a note for over 30 seconds. (Performed with members of Fishbone, George Clinton band, Johnny Otis band, Funkadelic, Living Color & Airto Moreira & Flora Purim's band.) Original cast Burning Man Rock Opera invited to perform on the playa & Teatro Zinzanni. Winner of Sellasie Songwriting Contest 2014. Teed Rockwell: Plays 12 string touch-style veena which has a guitar like fretboard. He combines funk licks with ragas to unite bass & melody lines by tapping the strings simultaneously with both hands. It is the only instrument of its kind & he is the only person in the world who plays it. He studied Indian classical music for 25 years with master Ali Akbar Kahn. Teed was music critic & wrote articles for 2 decades for India Currents international magazine. Founding member of Australian Bebop Raga along with Stephen Kent & Sameer Gupta. Teed's Bollywood Gharana ensemble performs original improvisations on Indian Filmi Tunes. He is also Featured on album Harpestry which sold over 200,000 copies worldwide. Andy Graham: Inventor of innovative instruments like the electric string didgeridoo & CEO of Slaperoo Percussion. Winning best of show at NAMM Music Convention in LA for the slapstick, a fretless bass for percussionists. He plays drums with the precision of Stewart Copeland in various time signatures. Andy Graham invited to perform Slaperoo Percussion & Electric String Didgeridoo at TedTalks February 2016. Slaperoo Percussion Best in Show 2013 NAMM Anaheim. Made custom instruments for Stevie Wonder, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Doug Wimbish of Living Color, Thomas Lang & Sivamani. Maker Faire Editors Choice Awards 2010-2015. Featuring: Luna Moon, tribal oriental & Hindustani dancer. Has toured globally & guest performed with Govinda, Kaminanda, David Starfire, Phuture Primative, Zack Darling, & many other international acts in Festivals across North America.
Two Lions Band Composition, Instrumental, Music, Vocal
The Two Lions band was created to showcase the music of Mitchel Slade. The idea of the band stems from the iconic idea that the Lion and the Lamb in friendship are a sign of peace.
We have come far towards our goals of peace, but we are truly in the time of the Two Lions. The time of personal leadership and evolution, and the need to resolve differences. Musically, we hope to bring a depth in the poetry and create an ambiance with the music that provokes a thoughtful, intended, and progressive experience.
The Band:
Mitchel Slade - guitar and vocals
Ashley Holmberg - violin & viola
Lance Harrington - percussion
Cw Bayer Composition, Instrumental, Music, Teacher/Instructor, Teaching Artist for Adults, Vocal CW Bayer plays ragtime honky tonk songs and tunes, singing and playing instrumentally, on guitar and harmonic. He plays originals and standards. He's played a long time. CW is available to share/teach this style. Visit cwbayer.blue
Mandy Brooks Composition, Instrumental, Music, Teacher/Instructor, Vocal Mandy Brooks found the road to music career a natural path to follow as she grew up with a mother who was a professional singer. She began sitting in with her mom's bands and learning about the industry from about 12 yo. Throughout her teens and twenties, she studied music in high school, college, recorded on various audio and visual projects in the studio and performed in live groups and ensembles including The Jimmy Scott Band, Blues Baby & Good Thing. Mandy has taught piano, voice and band workshops throughout the years at Yamaha Music School; Irvine, CA; Moody Music; Anaheim, Ca. and currently teaches privately out of her home studio. As the founder of Mockingbird Productions Company, she enjoy promoting and booking acts for venues and independently. 2017 marked the year of my debut album release, "Move on Up". Mandy Brooks is the leader of the "Mandy Brooks Band", also formed in 2017, featuring local artists including Levi Lloyd on guitar. Since this release, Mandy has also released five original songs and performs nationally with her family band "Small Hat". As well as performing live, Mandy has a passion for songwriting. Mandy has won an award in 2017 from the West Coast Songwriters, and a finalist in the 2019 Creative Sonoma Next Level songwriting contest. Mandy was also commissioned in 2018 to write a song "Common Ground" in commemoration of the 2017 Tubbs fire. Women in Music Collective was founded by Mandy Brooks in 2017 and has since produced a benefit concert in 2018 as well as donated instruments to women, to Verity and the Ronnie Martin Foundation. In 2019 Mandy was asked to speak on behalf of the collective for the Women's March in Santa Rosa in front of 3,500 people. 2018 Mandy won the female artist of the year for the Christian/Gospel category for the Josie Music Awards in Nashville. Mandy has a passion for helping other musicians achieve their goals and making a positive change in her community through her songs and her music. Singing, playing guitar and keyboard, writing songs and utilizing the gift of music to make a difference in individuals and communities is a driving force behind the music and life of Mandy Brooks.
Eric Butterfield Composition, Instrumental, Music, Vocal
Eric Butterfield's most recent single was a semi-finalist in the 2017 International Songwriting Competition.
Eric Butterfield is a songwriter based in Santa Rosa. His most recent single, "Wake Me in Paris," was a semi-finalist in both the 2017 International Songwriting Competition (unsigned category) and the 2018 Unsigned Only music contest. The song was produced and co-written by Scott Mickelson. His near-term goal is to release a full album featuring this song.
Eric performs locally as a solo act. He also releases music as Sons of the Golden West, and released a CD under that name in 2016.
Eric's music has appeared on more than 200 TV show episodes, on many major networks.
His self-produced six-song EP as Sons of the Golden West, "Oh, California!", received airplay on KALX in Berkeley, the Americana Music Show (Durham, N.C.), WCNI (Connecticut), and was put in rotation at San Diego State's KCR.
Eric's TV credits include Last Call With Carson Daly (NBC), True Life (MTV), The Nate Berkus Show (OWN), Remodeled (Web TV Network), Real Housewives of Atlanta (Bravo), N.Y. Ink (TLC), Last Chance Highway (Animal Planet), Porter Ridge (Discovery), Flipping Out (Bravo), and PM Miami (Mun2). The song "Teriza" appeared in an online video narrated by Ashley Judd, "Help Save Idaho's Wolves." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK1mZ4fL6Pk). A nearly complete list can be found at https://www.ericbutterfieldmusic.com/tv-credits
Eric's West Coast roots run deep. He is a fourth-generation Californian who grew up in the Los Angeles area. This heritage and a sense of a rapidly changing landscape losing its history inspire much of what has become the varied Americana sounds of Sons of the Golden West (www.sonsofthegoldenwest.com). Travel and relocation have also been an influence. In the 1990s, Eric was turned on to the vibrant Americana music scene in Denver, Colorado. At the time, he played in a pop punk band that toured the Western U.S. and released multiple albums, landing songs on compilations from AP magazine and San Diego label Goldenrod Records. Prior to that, Eric played in Dublin, Ireland, with The Mexican Pets, which recorded albums for Blunt Records, toured Europe, and played with the likes of Pavement, Fugazi, Sebadoh, and Therapy?. More recently he played in San Francisco with the Subtractions before forming Sons of the Golden West, both of which performed in clubs in the Bay Area and beyond.
Nick Cordellos Instrumental, Music, Vocal I grew up in Sonoma and have been drumming since age 7. My first professional gig was at age 14. At age 17, I was offered a job by a top-SF band, but could not take the role because of being under-age. During the 1980's I played for a brunch of people, including Bonnie Raitt. In 2003, I toured with Harmonica Shaw around the Midwest for about a year. I've played with a lot of people, tons. Ten years of playing drums in Detroit with a variety of bands, 2001-2011. Presently I am playing with 3 bands in Sonoma, Santa Rosa and Petaluma. Still on the lookout for the band that has an exciting pace to go on tour with.
Libby Cuffie Composition, Instrumental, Music, Vocal libby CUFFIE: Has been playing drum set and percussion since 2010. Participated in four different ensembles at Bellarmine: Symphonic Band, Percussion Ensemble, Jazz Band, and Pep Band. Received "Most Outstanding Musician" award in 2012. Played for the Praise Band at St. Stephen's in the Fields Episcopal Church in San Jose, CA from 2010-2012. At Sonoma State, has participated in three school ensembles: Latin Ensemble, Jazz Orchestra, and Contemporary Ensemble. In recent years, has performed extensively with a plethora of North-Bay musicians and groups including(but not limited to): Sharkmouth, The King Street, Snaps for Sinners (formerly Buck Thrifty),Token Girl, The Crux, The Rainbow Girls and Oddjob Ensemble. Since 2018, libby has been exploring their own sound with Casio keyboards and guitar pedals alongside their drumset. Notable Venues: The Great American Music Hall, The Blue Note Napa, The Independent, The Regency Ballroom, and Lagunitas Brewing Company. It's nice to meet you!
Tim Curley Composition, Instrumental, Music, Other, Vocal Born a long time ago, reborn recently.
Clementine Darling Composition, Instrumental, Music, Vocal Self taught singer-songwriter performing under the name of Clementine Darling. I play acoustic guitar and write folk tunes about my observations on love and the world.
Scott Decker Composition, Instrumental, Media, Music, Other, Video, Vocal
Scott Decker was born and raised in Healdsburg. Scott was first drawn to music by way of the guitar at age 13. He began studying guitar with local guitar player and educator Chris Pimentel.
Scott's formal music education started at the Santa Rosa Junior College where he discovered his love for the jazz art form while studying under Bennett Friedman. Later, Scott received a B.A. in Jazz Guitar Performance from Sonoma State University, earning the honorary Mel Graves 'Distinguished Graduate in the field of Jazz' award.
Scott has had the pleasure of studying and playing music with such notable artists and educators: Dayna Stephens, Randy Vincent, Doug Leibinger, Matt Wilson, Babatunde Lea, Julian Lage, Steve Rubardt, Cliff Hugo, Kendrick Freeman, and more. Scott has been playing and studying music for two decades, and can be found playing in various musical groups throughout Sonoma County.
Christa Durand Composition, Instrumental, Music, Vocal Christa is dedicated to exploring the relevancy of classical music in our lives today. With her students and in her performances, Christa encourages creating music from a place of authenticity, using music as a medium to share our collective and individual stories and cultivate compassion for one another.
Oddjob Ensemble Composition, Equipment, Film Office, Instrumental, Music, Other, Other, Performance Art, Talent, Theatre, Vocal "Hailing from Sonoma County, Oddjob Ensemble performs a myriad of musical styles and collaborates with perfomance artists in Vaudevillian shows, musical theater, and the avant garde. The Ensemble, led by Kalei Yamanoha, is a trio that is comprised of trap kit, string bass and accordion. Dancing to energizing early jazz numbers, listening to ethereal folk music and stomping to raucus overtures, the crowd will have their ears twisted into a delicious musical pretzel."
Manzanita Falls Composition, Instrumental, Music, Vocal Manzanita Falls has been perfecting their blend of dramatic indie rock for the better part of this decade. With their newest album out "Abilene," Manzanita Falls is excited to be bringing these songs to new and expanding audiences. Written after a near-fatal rollover accident the band suffered while on tour, and honed for the better part of three years, these songs explore the tenuis balance between life and death; love and loss. Manzanita Falls is ready to be out of their Northern California studio and back on the road this spring and summer.
Jesse Fichman Composition, Instrumental, Music, Vocal "While AJ Lee is only 19 years old, she's been the new face of bluegrass for more than a decade." -The San Francisco Chronicle Blue Summit combines accomplished instrumental work with powerful vocals and a lose interpretation of traditional bluegrass. Taking in elements from western swing, soul, folk, rock, and old time music, this band of friends puts their heart into their music, and has honorably been recognized as 2018 NCBS Band of the Year. At the head of the group is AJ Lee, eight-time winning NCBS Female Vocalist of the Year, and 2018 Mandolin Player of the Year. The rest of Blue Summit's accomplishments can be accredited to the dedication, persistence, and passion of founding member Isaac Cornelius (bass), Jesse Fichman (guitar), and two-time Guitar Player of the Year, Sullivan Tuttle. Blue Summit has played at festivals all around California, including the CBA Father's Day Festival, the Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival, and the Kate Wolf Music Festival. They have recently released their first album, "Sweet Company".
Kerstin Fletcher Children's, Illustration, Instrumental, Literature, Mixed, Music, Other, Painting, Photography, Recovery Fund Grantee, Teacher/Instructor, Visual Arts I LOVE drawing and painting with all mediums. From pencil to watercolor, acrylic, or oil, I thrive on capturing light and life. Always looking for new challenges and beauty to capture, I can be found outside at sunrise painting in "plein air" or combining illustrations for a new story for my children. My faith fuels me to seek to paint light and life. I want to truly see, and communicate what I see to others. Raised in a bilingual household with strong ties to Europe, I am mostly self-taught. My life has brought me to delight in traveling, be an avid reader, mother of four, pastor's wife, violist, gardener, and extremely motivated to squeeze every moment out of every day.
Kate Foley-Beining Improvisation, Instrumental, Mixed, Music, Painting, Printmaking, Teacher/Instructor, Teaching Artist for Adults, Teaching Artist for Youth, Theatre, Visual Arts, Vocal I am a musician, artist, and professor of German Language and Literature. Music: I am a singer, performing the works of Joni Mitchell, backed by a jazz trio. I have developed music enrichment programs for elementary schools in Healdsburg and Geyserville where I have taught vocal music for over 10 years. Working with children in music is its own reward and I am aware of the rare good fortune I have to also be paid to do it. I am a classically-trained pianist, currently pursuing challenging selections from the repertoire of Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, and Bach. Art: Sight-size realism is the method I use in painting my oil still lives. I would call my work domestic realism since my favorite subject matter is my 1940s era chrome coffeepot in which my domestic surroundings are reflected around me as I paint. Decay, in the form of rusted objects and old leather books, is set against the sharp convex images reflected in the chrome globe, offering a visual irony that I find endlessly intriguing. I have shown and sold my pieces in juried shows. Language and Literature: I am an adjunct professor of German with an emphasis on women writers in German literary history. My doctoral research, using a feminist literary perspective, was published in my book The Body and Eucharistic Devotion in Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg's Meditations. Teaching German brings me joy and of course my college students are constantly engaged in music, art, and theater as they become speakers of German
Ross Friedman Composition, Instrumental, Music, Other, Vocal Ross Friedman is a songwriter, recording engineer and music instructor based in Petaluma, California. Ross' songwriting covers many genres including: singer/songwriter, jazzy ballads, blues, rock and country rock. Instrumentals of various styles (acoustic, jazzy, blues and rock are also part of Ross' repertoire. Ross has a ProTools recording setup and can help songwriters and other musicians record their music. Ross provides individualized instruction on guitar and bass, taking into account the students taste in music. Instruction is provided for all levels - beginning, intermediate and advanced. Ross has many years of experience in music instruction and has been teaching in California since 1979. Ross has performed in bands and as a solo act since the age of 12. Although a professional for many years, he says "I remember what it's like to be a beginner and know that people starting out appreciate patience and encouragement." With this in mind, he has developed teaching techniques to simplify and explain the workings of music to all ages and levels of ability.


A new Hammersmith & Fulham Youth Mayor has been elected after a poll of 8,000 young people from across the borough.
The results were announced at the recent Youth Achievement Awards held at St Paul's Church in Hammersmith. See all the pictures from the event on our Flickr photo gallery.
Scarlett Knowles, who attends Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith, topped the ballot with 1,243 votes. She will serve as H&F Youth Mayor for the next year.
During her year as Youth Mayor, Scarlett will make positivity about mental health issues a key part of her work.
The new Deputy Youth Mayor is Ainhoa Reyes, of Sacred Heart School in Hammersmith, who received 733 votes.
Ballots were cast at 21 polling stations in schools and youth projects across Hammersmith & Fulham between 4 and 15 February.
The total number of votes cast was 4,216.
Cllr Larry Culhane, H&F Council's Cabinet Member for Children and Education, said: ""We are always looking for ways to do things with people, and not to them. And putting young people at the heart of decision-making through our Youth Council, and the national Youth Parliament, are another way that we do that.
The young people of H&F also elected a new Member of the Youth Parliament in Ozan Erder, of Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith, who received 834 votes.
While the Deputy Member of the Youth Parliament will be Jeffrey Mailli, of Fulham College, who received 697 votes.
The total number of votes cast was 4,168.
Once elected, MYPs meet with MPs and local councillors, organise events, run campaigns, make speeches, hold debates and ensure the views of young people are listened to by decision makers.


3. Use a big bowl and put in sea salt with water then deep Napa Cabbage into it, this allow the whole Napa Cabbage to be fully salted. Sprinkle sea salt between leaves and getting salt into the core, as much as possible. Keep the salt water for later use.
5. Check and make sure Napa Cabbage is now soft and bendable. Wash it thoroughly and make sure all salt remove completely.


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Rant: The Nintendo 2DS makes no sense
Nintendo recently announced that a new addition to the 3DS family will be released in October. Ironically, though, it won't have 3D functionality. I guess that's why it's called the Nintendo 2DS.
As someone who had just recently bought a 3DS XL, I appreciate the technology and the effort that Nintendo has put into it. That's why I find the 2DS useless.
The normal 3DS costs $170, while the XL costs $200; the 2DS, is priced at $130. It can play all 3DS and most DS games, but as its name suggests, it's a 3DS without the 3D. The first concern I have in mind in line with that is this: what purpose does the 2DS serve for games that specifically need the 3D function in order to be appreciated and played to their full glory?
I can understand Nintendo's concerns for children when it warned their parents that the 3D function might harm the kids' vision, but I think that isn't a sufficient reason to make a new 2DS. As a matter of fact, the 3DS itself can be a 2DS!
Nintendo to release 2DS
Nintendo announced yesterday that it is going to release a third in its 3DS portable videogame console series. Starting October 12, 2013, the Nintendo 2DS will be available in gaming stores in America, Europe and Australia.
Highly deviating from its predecessors looks-wise, the 2DS adapts a slate form factor instead of the DS's, 3DS's and 3DS XL's flip form factor. The 2DS's sleep mode can instead be activated by a slider switch similar to that of the PSP instead of "closing the shell".
Next Tekken Revolution update to add Nina, Feng, more costumes
Another update is in line for Tekken Revolution.
This next update will add new stages, alternate character costumes and premium effects. It will also mark the return of Nina Williams and Feng Wei as unlockable fighters.
The update is scheduled for release this coming September.
Source: TEKKEN (Facebook)
"The King of Fighters" to become a MOBA game
SNK Playmore recently announced that they are planning to release a multiplayer online battle arena (or MOBA) game based on The King of Fighters series.
The King of Fighters Online is being developed by South Korean studio Dragonfly and is to be published by True Digital Plus in Thailand.
Along with an official website, five videos have been released, detailing skills for Kyo Kusanagi, Iori Yagami, Terry Bogard, Joe Higashi and Tizoc/Griffon Mask. Some in-game screenshots also reveal the inclusion of Ralf Jones, Kasumi Todoh, Kula Diamond, Vanessa, Shion, Billy Kane and Maxima, among others.
WWE Superstar Darren Young "comes out"
Fred Rosser, otherwise known as WWE Superstar Darren Young, was interviewed by chance by a TMZ cameraman yesterday. The interviewer candidly asked him if gay wrestlers can ever succeed in the WWE. Here is what Darren had to say.
Absolutely. Look at me. I'm a WWE superstar and to be honest with you, I'll tell you right now, I'm gay. And I'm happy. I'm very happy.
In an unprecedented turn of events, Darren had dropped a bombshell: he is gay.
Naruto Shippuuden goes "Full Burst"
Namco Bandai Games is going to release an enhanced version of Naruto Shippuuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3.
Naruto Shippuuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 Full Burst will update the game's Ultimate Adventure mode with a new chapter: the final episode of the Uchiha brothers. Itachi and Sasuke reunite for the last time in a fight against Kabuto Yakushi, the co-mastermind of the fourth Great Ninja War.
"30 Years of WrestleMania" is the main feature of WWE 2K14
2K Sports had recently revealed that WWE 2K14's single-player campaign mode will highlight the rich history of "The Grandest Stage of Them All", WrestleMania. Dubbed the 30 Years of WrestleMania mode, gamers and wrestling fans alike will be able to relive the classic WrestleMania moments in this mode.
Along with the feature is the confirmation of Andre the Giant, Hulk Hogan (both in his classic and "Hollywood" personas), The Rock (both his Attitude Era and current incarnations) and John Cena as playable Superstars.
In the previous game, WWE '13, the single-player campaign tackled the highlights of the most controversial period in the history of the organization, the Attitude Era.
Yusuke, Gon confirmed for J-Stars Victory VS
Two new characters have been confirmed for the upcoming all-star team battle/fighting game J-Stars Victory VS.
The latest issue of Shonen Jump reveals spirit detective Yusuke Urameshi from Yu Yu Hakusho and prodigy hunter Gon Freecss from Hunter x Hunter as the latest playable characters in the game.
Yusuke and Gon are the main protagonists of their respective mangas, both authored by Yoshihiro Togashi. There will be more Shonen Jump manga characters expected to join them along with the first eight in the future reveals until the game's release later this year.
J-Stars Victory VS will hit the PS3 and PSVita in Japan.
Rave: Tekken x Street Fighter is still an active project
Being a fan of both Street Fighter and Tekken, I could only imagine back then what happens if the two franchises clash in a game. When SF producer Yoshinori Ono and Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada announced way back in 2010 that they will be making Street Fighter x Tekken and Tekken x Street Fighter, respectively, the fanboy in me jumped in awe.
Then SFxTK was released last year. In my first weeks of playing it, I was still enjoying it, despite that Bad Box Art Megaman. I thought the inclusion of Cole MacGrath from inFamous will keep me interested in the game for long, but I guess its rather sluggish gameplay (I'm not a technical SF player), I couldn't really appreciate it completely. The DLC controversy didn't help either.
After seeing how much of a disappointment Capcom's game turned out to be, I craved for Namco Bandai's version. However, I couldn't see any updates regarding Tekken x Street Fighter, and that disappointed me greatly. I thought Harada-san had pulled the plug out on that project.
I'm glad I was wrong.
A sneak preview of the next Tekken Bishoujo
Tekken God Katsuhiro Harada recently tweeted that he's "supervising" the production of an upcoming Tekken figurine. The tweet is accompanied by this picture that gives fans a nice view.
The sneak preview is that of none other than Jun Kazama for Kotobukiya's Tekken Bishoujo series. The extent of Harada-san's supervision, however, is unclear.


For your teen's safety, make sure you have these four conversations about digital technology.
Q&A: Shocked by your child's social media posts?
"The Net is vital to a child's success as a student as well as a future member of the work place," says Alexis Moore.


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a small speaker with finely honed musical sensibilities that really can play it large with a clear-eyed conviction and, best of all, an infectious sense of fun.
The most immediately obvious change is a return to the elegantly curved cabinet sides made famous by the Diamond 9 and Diamond 10 ranges, which yielded What Hi-Fi? Product of the Year Awards in 2005 and 2009 for the Diamond 9.1 and 10.1 respectively. The more recent Diamond 100 and Diamond 200 speakers had square-sided cabinets, but the Diamond 11 Series brings back the curves in response to global demand. The result is an affordable speaker range with a distinctly premium look and sound.
- New drive units across the range, designed and built in-house to deliver exceptional performance at this price level.
- Bass/midrange drivers incorporate massive magnet designs, special ribbed baskets and advanced suspension to complement their woven Kevlar cones.
- High-performance textile-domed tweeter sports an over-sized ceramic magnet and specially shaped rear chamber.
- Redesigned crossover network, perfected over thousands of hours of listening tests.
- Cabinet walls made from a sandwich of woods of differing density, ensuring excellent acoustic characteristics and an impeccable standard of finish.
- Curved cabinet walls enhance acoustic performance as well as the speakers' aesthetic qualities.
- Bass loading via an improved version of Wharfedale's slot-loaded distributed port, enabling deep, articulate and well-integrated bass with an absence of 'chuffing'.
Whereas most affordable speaker systems are based on drive units that are built down to a price, Wharfedale started with the premise that Diamond drivers should be aimed at performance. That is why the Diamond 11 Series sports advanced driver systems incorporating elements that normally only find their way into high-end loudspeakers.
For example, the bass and midrange drivers use a basket with a network of ribs that maintain the rigidity of the basket while leaving a large open area behind the cone. The rigidity improves transient impact while the big open area reduces early reflections to cone and allows the generous, specially chosen internal cabinet absorbent to do its work.
The Diamond 11 Series speakers also feature massive magnet designs to both raise sensitivity and ensure absolute control of cone movement over lower bass frequencies. In addition, the use of a specially shaped single-forged pole piece with copper cap controls the magnetic flux and ensures low distortion through the critical midrange area.
Then there is the progressive suspension which features a lightweight foamed surround for an extended midrange response, in conjunction with a super-long-throw voice coil motor system, to achieve unparalleled linearity and accuracy in this sector of the market. Naturally the woven Kevlar cone, a long-time favourite for Diamond designs, has been treated to provide a precise match to the new suspension elements.
While the drive units are the heart of a loudspeaker system, they would be nothing without the integration of a precisely derived crossover. Wharfedale's engineers use a highly evolved virtual crossover software system to help create a series of circuit options for combining the bass/midrange and treble units seamlessly. These circuit options are then evaluated using stringent listening tests over a period of months, involving a wide range of music.
Once the final circuit strategy has been chosen, the design team fine tunes the crossover component values, the type of components and the circuit board layout to yield the most accurate, detailed and, above all, enjoyable musical performance using only listening tests as an arbiter of quality.
While the cabinet, to the owner, is often just a piece of furniture, Wharfedale has long realised that it is the final piece of the design process that marks a speaker out of the ordinary. Since the early days of Wharfedale, when the founder, Gilbert Briggs, was experimenting with such rarities as sand-filled baffles, cabinet construction has always been part and parcel of the 'sound' of Wharfedale speakers. For the Diamond 11 Series, Wharfedale's engineers have refined the multi-layer sandwich of woods of differing density to subdue the identifiable characteristics of the cabinet 'sound' and so let the drive units speak for themselves. Critical bracing of the cabinet panels, together with the curving of the cabinet walls to provide a non-boxy shape, have reduced resonances more than 25dB below the driver outputs. In addition, the cabinet walls are lined with a specially developed internal fibre which has been chosen because of its outstanding absorbent qualities across a wide bandwidth.
The result is that the listener hears the drive unit output unsullied by unwanted colorations caused by panel vibration or internal resonances, revealing more of the detail of the musical performance.
The result is an entirely natural and low-distortion recreation of the fundamental notes of bass instruments, matching the realistic sound of the midrange and treble characteristics. The low 'Q' nature of this ported system also allows the listener to position Diamond 11 speakers close to a rear wall, helping to make the speakers less obtrusive in a room setting.


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In Alaska earthquake 7.1 Announced tsunami threat
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MOSCOW, September 2 — RIA Novosti. Earthquake of magnitude 7.1 occurred on Friday in Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
According to seismologists, the epicenter of the earthquake was 200 kilometers south-east of Atka on the same island. Hearth tremors occur at the depth of 39 kilometers.
Source: RIA Novosti
For some areas off Alaska declared tsunami threat
MOSCOW, September 2 — RIA Novosti. A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.1 occurred in Alaska on Friday. For a number of areas of the peninsula declared threat tsunami Warning Center said the tsunami threat the U.S. West Coast and Alaska.
According to experts, the tsunami would threaten coastal areas of Alaska from Unimak Strait to the island of Adak in the north of the Aleutian Islands.
On the height of the waves were reported.
Activated three buoy tsunami early warning www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ waiting for further developments.
In the active phase 15: 50 Moscow time, there are already 4 buoy.