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Delta and the Bannermen
Serial Code
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Final Ratings
VHS RELEASE
Regular Cast
Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor), Bonnie Langford (Mel)
Guest Cast
Don Henderson (Gavrok), Belinda Mayne (Delta), Stubby Kaye (Weismuller), Morgan Deare (Hawk), Ken Dodd (Tollmaster), Richard Davies (Burton), David Kinder (Billy), Sarah Griffiths (Ray), Johnny Dennis (Murray), Brian Hibbard (Keillor), Tim Scott (Chima), Anita Graham (Bollit), Leslie Meadows (Adlon), Robin Aspland, Keff McCulloch, Justin Myers, Ralph Samins (The Lorells), Tracey Wilson, Jodie Wilson (Vocalists), Hugh Lloyd (Goronwy), Martyn Geraint (Vinny), Clive Condon (Callon), Richard Mitchley (Arrex), Jessica McGough,
Amy Osborn (Young Chimeron), Laura Collins, Carley Joseph (Chimeron Princess)
Written by Malcolm Kohll
Directed by Chris Clough
Produced by John Nathan Turner
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Boarding a Nostalgia Tours bus, The Doctor and Mel go for a holiday. They will soon learn that their fellow passenger Delta is a Chimeron Queen, fleeing from the Bannermen who wish to make her species extinct. Thus, the time travellers' trip to Shangri-La turns into a battle against genocide…
The scenes at the Shangri-La holiday camp were shot on location at the Butlins Holiday camp on Barry Island, Wales. The holiday camp is no longer there, but the island was used again, this time as a stand-in for a bomb site in 1941 London, in the 2005 series episodes "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances".
The soundtrack of this serial contained a higher-than-usual number of recognisable pop songs, although due to licensing costs all were re-recorded by "The Lovells", a fictional group created by the show's incidental music composer Keff McCullough. The songs featured in the serial were: "Rock Around the Clock", "Singing the Blues", "Why Do Fools Fall in Love", "Mr. Sandman ", "Goodnight, Sweetheart", "That'll Be the Day", "Only You", "Lollipop", "Who's Sorry Now?" and "Happy Days Are Here Again".
The motorbike ridden by Billy in this story is a Vincent, made by British manufacturer Vincent Motorcycles. The guitar The Doctor is seen hugging at the end of the story is a Squier Stratocaster by Fender, although the model is not one available at the time the story was set. The TARDIS scenes were recorded during production of the next story Dragonfire.
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Featured LLM Alumna: Paula M. Young
Paula Marie Young had been practicing law since 1982 before she came to Mizzou Law in 2001 to get her LLM. Young grew up in St. Louis, Mo., and had stayed in her hometown to get degrees in political science and law from Washington University, where she graduated in the top 20 percent of her law class.
"I graduated from Wash U in 1982," Young said. "My first job was with the largest law firm in Oklahoma doing oil and gas law."
In 1991, Young joined McCarthy, Leonard, Kaemmerer, Owen, Lamkin & McGovern, L.L.C., becoming a partner during her 11 years. She then decided to focus on mediation and chose Mizzou Law for the reputation of the dispute resolution program. As an LLM student, Young says she loved "interacting with students from other countries" and learning about a topic about which she was passionate. Upon graduating, Young entered the legal education field herself.
"After I got my LLM, I started teaching at the Appalachian School of Law," Young said. "The MU Law faculty prepared me for the job talk by doing a mock interview for me. I have now been teaching almost as long as I practiced law, from 2002-2020."
For the past five years, Young has been a clinical professor of law at Qatar University College of Law in Doha, Qatar. She is an award-winning mediator and was the recipient of the first Distinguished Mediator Award presented by the Virginia Mediation Network. Who's Who in America has recognized her among its top executives and professionals. Martindale-Hubbell has listed her as an AV-Rated Preeminent Woman Lawyer with the highest peer ratings for legal ability and ethics. In January 2006, the Governor of Kentucky commissioned Young as a Kentucky Colonel for her efforts on behalf of the Kentucky mediation community.
Of the many awards Young has received in her accomplished career, she says she is most proud of her role as a leader in the Virginia mediation community and her publications, of which she has over 60. She also has a blog, The Red Velvet Lawyer, which has more than 350,000 page views. In October 2010, Young joined the Virginia Mediation Network's Board of Directors and rose to the position of president from 2012-2013. While serving in this role, she launched a strategic planning process for the organization.
Young says she is thankful for the mentorship she received from a female colleague early in her career.
"One female associate helped me navigate gender politics in the law in the 1980s when only 8 percent of all lawyers in the U.S. were women," Young said.
Looking to the future, Young says, "I have another year in Qatar. Then, retirement in Thailand for a while. Travel in Southeast Asia and Africa. It all depends on how the pandemic unfolds. If I am really ambitious, I will launch an online training program for women in East Africa in conflict resolution leadership."


I've never had a baby, but I definitely have had weight that needs to be lost. I actually wrote about my weightloss journey on my blogspot page. Since I reached my highest weight last summer/fall in 2012, I've lost about 8-9 pounds (not sure which one because my weight varies) and I've been at a stand still since May 2013. Even so, I'm still motivated to lose the last 16 pounds hopefully by my 25th birthday (my goal was to lose 24 pounds in my 24th year of life...teehee). Anyway, even thought I'm not pleased about not having lost the 5 pounds I intended to lose by mid summer, I know that I now exercise regularly, eat healthier, I have more energy and I can run 3 miles in 30 minutes, which I never would have dreamed of before! And it all started with much simpler exercises like dance work out videos, zumba classes, going for walks outside, then stepping it up to walk/runs, then before I knew it I was basically doing run conditioning exercises. Just make sure to sweat and get your heart rate up at least 2 times a week for 30 minutes and go from there!
With my first, I gained about 50 lbs and it took me about 5 months to lose half of that and another 5-6 months to get it all completely off. My second baby, I gained another 50lbs and it took me almost twice as long to get it off. But I was lazy and didn't do much!
For me, I lost the most after my fourth. I changed to a primarily holistic eating plan (no sugars, low starch, higher in good/clean proteins; healthy fats) and was the slimmest I've ever been in my adult life.


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51 – Exceptionally Splendid Sisters
In today's episode, we'll meet the exceptional Goodlander sisters, two celebrated photographers who ran photography studios together in Indiana for more than half a century!
http://p3photographers.net/podcast/P3P051_goodlandersisters.mp3
Photos by the Goodlander Sisters studio:
This beautiful portrait in an paper mat:
Pictorialist style portrait, Goodlander Sisters Studio, circa early 20th century. (McIntyre-Culy Collection)
The mat is actually part of a folder, and the cover contains the studio stamp:
Goodlander Sisters Studio Stamp
This image from 1942 shows a very different style, and indicates that the Goodlander Sisters studio also did class photos:
Goodlander Sister Studio: "Neva", Class of 1942. (McIntyre-Culy Collection)
Sample ads from the Goodland Sisters Studio:
Ad for the Goodlander Sisters Studiom, The Star Press, Oct 30, 1904
Notices for the Goodlander Sisters studio and M.D. Goodlander studio, The Star Press, Nov. 5, 1905
Joint ad by all the studios in Muncie, Indiana, The Star Press, May 4, 1919
Muncie Evening Press Mon Aug 25, 1919
Photos of the family:
1912 Portrait of Maybelle D. Goodlander, Secretary-Treasurer, Women's Federation of the Photographers' Association of America
Photographers in Muncie: front-right, Maude Goodlander, Maybelle Goodlander. Muncie Evening Press, July 22, 1959
1959 Photo of Maude and Maybelle Goodlander as part of the Muncie, Indiana Photographers group:
1906 Photo and article about their dog, Sam:
Scranton Republican, February 25, 1906
From the Scranton Republican, February 25, 1906
Sam Path, with one ear up and the other down, is shown in his characteristic attitude and alone. Patch is owner in Muncie, Ind. by the Goodlander sisters. The father of these young women owns a studio in one part of town and the girls in another. The dog travels back and forth between the two places, always in mischief. In three years of his dog life he has eaten sufficient arsenic to kill a pack of hounds, he has been chewed by other canines with which he picked a figure, has been run over by a touring car, and has had the mange until at one time he was absolutely hairless. Today Patch is the liveliest canine in Muncie. His mistresses and master love him for the enemies he has made.
Note: in the audio I may refer to the name of the photographer's group incorrectly; it is properly titled the Women's Federation of the Photographers Association of America.
In today's episode, we'll meet the Goodlander sisters, two celebrated photographers, who ran photography studios together for more than half a century!
Welcome back toPhotographs, Pistols, & Parasols The pictorialist style is a soft focused image. It's not the straight-up photograph that you think of when you think about the cabinet cards and the early 20th century photos that are done in the studios. This is something that's manipulated in a dark room to give it more of a painterly portrait. The resulting image is often delivered as a sepia tone that evokes that idea of being more of a painted portrait than a photograph.
However, the features in the image are recognizable as being a photo of the sitter.
But the Goodlander sisters don't do just that kind of portrait. They are doing all kinds of photographic work. Everything that we have come to expect from the typical artisan studio.
Their photos also routinely appear in newspapers for society notices or of business owners, that kind of thing. They win awards, not just for those fancier types of portraits, but over the years they get awards for their photography in general from state organizations and also national organizations – groups of photographers who are rewarding images and their craft.
I mean, I found a notice though, as late as 1952 that a photo of a baby even won an award from the national stork association, which was giving awards for cute babies throughout the years.
The Goodlander sisters are also masters of advertising. They take out fancy themed ads as well as simple notices in the newspaper. I'll include a copy of different kinds of those. There's one cute one for mother's day. There's [another that's] a promotion for getting your picture taken to send to your soldier during WWI. We saw some of that kind of in earlier episodes here on podcast. The Goodlanders were very adept at taking out these kinds of interesting ads and leveraging that kind of advertising publicity to get people into their studio to get their pictures taken.
They also have an interesting logo. It's a silhouettes, those black silhouettes of the faces of the two sisters, and I'll include a ad that has a copy of that logo in the ad.
They're also just the simple notices for their studio, that are put in these little boxes in the newspaper. And what's interesting is that [at one point] that you see their studio listed right beside their father's studio in that kind of notice.
The Goodlander sisters were also very active in the Muncie business association. And they served over the years as officers in that group as well, leaders in their business community being there for, as I said, more than 50 years. There's actually an ad in the 1950s that celebrate how many businesses in Muncie had been in business for more than 50 years; the Goodlander sisters of are one of about 10 that actually have been in business and all different branches of business, not just photography.
Now, Maybelle Goodlander in particular seemed like she was very well respected, an early founder and officer in the a group of professional photographers in the United States.
Maybelle was involved in 1908 when a group of women photographers decided that the women's work and contributions to the profession of photography would be well served by having a special women's group within the larger professional photographers of America, called the Women's Federation of the Photographers Association of America. Maybelle was extremely active with that organization, and she served as the secretary treasurer in 1912 and eventually as the president, at least a one year, at least in 1915. I'll include a beautiful photograph of her that appeared in publicity for that women's group of professional photographers.
[The photo is from 1912 when Maybelle's headshot is included in the publicity showing all the officers of the group that year.
Now the Goodlander Sisters studio was primarily in Muncie, Indiana. As I said, it opened in 1904 and it closed in 1962 after the death of Maude Goodlander.
In the 1920s though, the sisters opened a second branch in Anderson, Indiana. Their mother had been from Anderson, Indiana, and they had relatives in that town. I don't know for sure why they opened up a studio there, and I don't have complete dates for that studio, but their studio in Anderson seems to have been around in the late 1920s and lasted for less than 10 years, but during that entire period, they still had their original branch in Muncie, Indiana.
Maude and Maybelle continued to work together at the studio all the way up until 1959. There's a photo of Maude and Maybelle that summer in the newspaper because they're part of a group of photographers in Muncie who are looking to start a new professional photography organization there in Muncie.
Unfortunately, just a few months after that picture is taken, tragedy strikes. Maybelle is hospitalized with appendicitis, and after a three week stay in the hospital, Maybelle passes away at the age of 77. She leaves in an estate of $17,000 to her sister Maude.
Maude continues to run the Goodlander studio for a few more years in Muncie until her own death in 1962; Maude is 84 when she passes away of heart disease.
In early 1963 there's a lovely tribute in the newspaper marking the end of an era of the Goodlander studios in Muncie. The article points out that with the Goodlander Sisters studio now closed, that leaves Muncie without a studio run by a Goodlander for the first time in more than 80 years!
So there you have it. Two sisters who were photographic entrepreneurs extraordinaire. Their careers of more than 60 years as photographers are among the longest I've run across for any photographer, male or female.
They were the daughters of a photographer, and went on to forge their own very successful careers and make their own mark on the business of photography. They left behind a legacy of not only talented photography, but also astute business acumen. Truly, they exemplify the epitome of the early woman artist and photographer.
As I mentioned, I'll include some of the ads for the Goodlander Sisters studio, as well as some examples of the their work, in the episode notes for today.
I'll also include that picture of their dog who ran back and forth between the sisters' studio and the father's studio.
As always, you'll find all that on the website at p3photographers.net: that's letter "p", number "3", photographers.net.
If you have any questions or just want to drop me a line, write to podcast "at" photographers.net.
And remember, you can follow Photographs, Pistols, & Parasols on facebook at facebook.com/p3photographers. The Facebook page is where I'll post news and updates about the project this year. Be sure to check it out as I'll have some exciting news to share about an upcoming talk that I'll be giving in Marh in Port Townsend, Washington.
Anyway, that's it for today. Thanks as always for stopping by.
Until next time, I'm Lee, and this is Photographs, Pistols, & Parasols.f
Author Lee McIntyrePosted on February 1, 2020 March 21, 2020 Categories Episodes, Goodlander, Maude, Goodlander, Maybelle
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INEC Issues APDA, ADP, 3 Other Parties Certificate
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday, in Abuja presented certificates of registration to five newly registered political parties, bringing to 45 the total number of registered political parties in Nigeria.
The newly certified political parties are Action Democratic Party (ADP), All Democratic People's Movement (ADPM), Advanced People's Democratic Party (APDA), New Generation of Nigeria (NGP) and the Young Progressive Party (YPP).
Before the presentation of the certificates, which took place at the Commission's headquarters in Abuja, INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, congratulated the new political parties on passing through the rigorous but transparent registration process, and encouraged them to always abide by the operational guidelines in all their political activities.
He strongly warned that INEC will no longer tolerate any sort of violation of electoral guidelines in the operations of both the existing and the newly registered political parties either before, during and after elections, starting with the forthcoming bye-elections and Anambra governorship elections scheduled for November.
The INEC boss however disclosed that the Commission had as at the end of last week received 95 applications from political associations for consideration as political parties.
He said that out of the aforementioned figure, five political associations have fulfilled the requirements for registration, three associations voluntarily withdrew their application, thus bringing the total to 87 applications.
The Commission, according to him, few days ago received another six applications for registration.
"This means that the Commission is currently processing 103 applications for registration as political parties. Out of this number, six associations are currently undergoing the initial assessment of their logo, names, acronym and other legal requirements for registration."
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September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
September is International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, a time when cancer organisations around the world put the spotlight on children's cancer and the need to improve diagnosis, treatment and outcomes.
Sadly around 710 children aged 0-14 are diagnosed with cancer in Australia every year and 100 will die from the disease.
Cancer Council Queensland funds and manages the Australian Paediatric Cancer Registry - one of only a few national clinical registers of childhood cancer in the world. The registry records clinical and treatment information on all children diagnosed with cancer in Australia.
Figures from the registry show that childhood cancer death rates in Australia have decreased by nearly 40 per cent over the past 15 years. However, cancer remains the most common cause of disease-related death for children aged 1-14 in Australia, and data from Associate Professor Claire Wakefield at the University of NSW has shown that 81 percent of childhood cancer survivors develop at least one life-changing mental or physical health issue after cancer treatment they received as a child. This highlights the need for further research and support services for families affected.
A critical part of Cancer Council's work is providing information and support to families impacted by cancer. Our 13 11 20 phone number is accessible to all Australians impacted by cancer and acts as a gateway to our other cancer services and information.
We also publish a range of resources to help support families experiencing cancer. As part of this range, we have Cancer in the School Community to assist conversations about the stages of cancer for school aged children.
Additionally, our Talking to Kids About Cancer publication is designed to help when discussing all stages of a cancer diagnosis with children from infants to teenagers. Cancer Council Victoria also publish Life During and After Childhood Cancer, which explores a range of aspects related to cancer ranging from diet and fatigue to school issues.
Around the country, research projects are underway with the aim of improving diagnosis and treatment for children. Cancer Council is the largest independent funder of cancer research in Australia and is currently funding a number of research projects directly related to cancers that impact children.
For instance, Cancer Council NSW is currently funding Associate Professor Claire Wakefield at the University of NSW. Her research is focusing on implementing interventions that aim to improve long-term outcomes for childhood cancer survivors and their families.
Professor Murray Norris AM at the Children's Cancer Institute is also being funded by Cancer Council NSW and aims to increase survival rates of children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia. Professor Norris is aiming to identify new molecular targets for treatment and ultimately develop prevention strategies.
You can find more information on Cancer Council research via our website.


Not Eating Flaxseeds? Here are some very good reasons why you should.
There are several very good reasons why you should be eating flaxseed. But before I get into what those are, let's learn a little more about this tiny yet mighty seed. The origin of flaxseed are unknown due to the sheer recorded history of their use (going back to 30,000 B.C.) and the wide range of regions where the earliest signs of flax have been found. The Egyptians are said to use linseed oil during the embalming process and the cloth was used to wrap the mummy. The material that is produced from flax is today more commonly known as linen (This one surprised me) and is widely used for bedding, table linen and clothing.
So here is why you should be eating ground flaxseeds: To begin, please note I specified ìgroundî flaxseed. This is because it has long been thought that whole flaxseeds are harder to digest than ground. By grinding the seeds you are able to absorb more of the nutrition. Whole flaxseeds are thought to travel straight through the digestive system and out the other end. This would negate the whole benefits of eating flax. Also known as linseed, flaxseeds are a very rich source of antioxidants, dietary fiber and those good for you fats. They are a good source of omega-3 fatty acids and plant-based protein, as well as vitamins C and B6 and calcium, potassium and iron. The omega 3 can help lower blood pressure. The rich fiber content and healthy fats can also help with weight loss, and improves the metabolism.
Due to their nutritional content, flaxseeds are believed to aid in lowering the risks of cancer, heart disease and diabetes. Flaxseed is most commonly used for digestive health. This is particularly useful for people that tend to suffer with constipation. They are also thought to help reduce LDL or bad cholesterol levels. The high fiber content of flaxseed is reputed to assist in keeping blood sugar levels in check, and help with type-2 diabetes. They are rich in antioxidants that help fight some forms of cancer. Their lignans balance the bodyís hormones and aid in minimizing menopausal symptoms, as an alternative to hormone replacement therapy.
With all of these helpful health benefits, there really is no good reason to not add flaxseeds or flaxseed oil to your diet. Ground flaxseeds are easy to include in your everyday meals. Stir a tablespoon into a cup of yogurt, sprinkle on your cereals as well as your salads. With their slight nutty flavor flaxseeds can be sprinkled on just about any dish and have no negative effects on flavors. So you see, there really is no reason not to eat flax.


Scene 1: Well known Actor 'A' was irritated by the opposition to his movie by religious group 'X'. Frustrated by the opposition actor 'threatened' to leave India and move to some foreign country.
Scene 2: Well known Actor 'B' was irritated by the opposition to his movie by religious group 'Y'. He didn't speak anything about that issue. Months later in an interview he told that his wife is 'suggesting' to leave India and move to some foreign country.
According to Present days Tolerant India's logic Actor 'A' and 'B' should be considered anti – national and traitors. Wait a minute….
Actor 'A' = Kamal Hassan; Religious group 'X' = Muslim fundamentalists.
Actor 'B' = Aamir Khan; Religious group 'Y' = Hindu fundamentalists.
Do you still think both Actor 'A' and 'B' are anti – national traitors? If your opinion changes once you know the names of actors then it indicates your love and hate for particular religion. Nothing patriotic in that!
Discussing Intolerance in the society based on Aamir Khan's Wife's comments is absurd. With the rise of 24x7 news channels and social media most of the discussions will be on these absurd and mundane issues. The ruling parties will be very happy to see people fighting over trivial issues and forgetting the government's failures! Aamir Khan and Kamal Hassan are actors, have directed few movies and that's it. Our love or hate to those persons should be limited to their movies. Why should someone consider them as real life heroes and give undue prominence to them? Aamir Khan can't be called patriotic because of his role in Sarfarosh and Mangal Pandey; at the same time he can't be named anti hindu because of his role in PK!
Even people who are speaking up against growing intolerance have not branded india as intolerant. Growing intolerance is not equivalent to Intolerant India. But can one deny the fact that growth of intolerance is on the rise? Congress ruled this country for a long long time. Were there not any protests against the Congress? There were protests, and most of the pro – people protests were organized and carried forward by the progressives, dalits intellectuals and leftists. The Hindu rightists and their supporting political parties protested only when there was some religious element in it. In Karnataka at present there is Congress government. Progressives, dalits, intellectuals and leftists have protested against Siddaramaiah's government. But I have never heard anyone from this state government asking the protestors to leave the state or country, they have never called these protestors against state government anti – national traitors. But is it same with Modi's BJP government in the centre?
Speak a word against BJP or Modi, you will be named as Congress chamcha! You will be named anti national! You will be named traitor! Responsible ministers say that these people are paid by congress to make such statements! The Politicians of BJP will ask those who oppose BJP or Modi to leave India and move to Pakistan! I have a doubt that these Politicians of BJP are actually funded by Pakistan Tourism Department! Social media will be buzzed with all type of images and posts condemning the statement! And our people who not even a single time protested against any government, show their patriotism by sharing half baked and half truth posts without thinking. Their minds are probably blocked by the words of our great leaders. If this is not growing intolerance what is?
The writers, academicians, scientists, directors and even the army personnel have returned the awards as a form of protest to various issues. They are named Congresswalas, they are named traitors, they were called undeserving candidates for those awards. Even there was a protest headed by Anupam Kher against this award wapsi. Eminent Kannada writer S.L. Bhyrappa and director Nagabharana spoke against this award wapsi. By the way Anupam Kher's wife is BJP member. Does it make Anupam Kher BJP chamcha? Does S.L. Bhyrappa and Nagabharana paid by the BJP to speak against this award wapsi?


Derby Theatre is on the lookout for young people to appear in their big production for the autumn, Brassed Off, based on the screenplay from the smash-hit film.
It can be seen at Derby Theatre from Friday, September 18, until Saturday, October 10.
I am looking forward immensely to a young company of local actors being an integral part of our big show for the autumn.
Auditions will be held in groups on Saturday, May 16, at the theatre's rehearsal space on Green Lane. Young people will take part in a range of drama exercises and games and will be asked to prepare short excerpts from the script.
Previous acting experience is preferred but not essential, just lots of energy and commitment. Please wear comfortable clothes and footwear and bring along a bottle of water for refreshment.
The theatre is inviting boys between the ages of 8-14, and girls between the ages of 8-10, to audition.
n Shane (to be played by a boy with a playing age between 11 and 14 years of age). There are a significant number of lines to learn for this role. He is a working class Northern lad trying to understand the adult world from his young perspective. He introduces the adult characters within the play.
n Craig and Melody, who are Shane's younger brother and sister (to be played by a boy and girl with a playing age between 8-11 years of age). They are always fighting with each other and oblivious to what's happening in the adult world.
Audition slots will be at: 10am–12.30pm for boys aged between 11 and 14, for the roles of Shane and Craig- 2 x 1-hour audition slots (one at 1.30pm–2.30pm and one at 2.40pm–3.40pm). These will be mixed groups, for girls and boys, for the roles of Melody and Craig.
For those successful in securing an audition slot, relevant scenes of the script will then be sent out in advance of the audition date, so that they can be prepared. Producers will cast three teams of three young actors. Each team will perform on a rotational basis during the run. The main rehearsals, with the professional company of actors, will commence on Monday, August 24.
The young actors need to be available on this date and the young person playing Shane will be expected to be available for a large part of the rehearsal period (Monday, August 24 until Thursday, September 17) i.e. in the day time during the school holidays and on evenings and weekends during term time.
The young people playing Craig and Melody will not be required as often (exact days and times required to be confirmed closer to the run). In addition to the indicated days/dates above, the young company members will have to be available – for Shane: Monday, August 24, and Tuesday, September 15 – Thursday, September 17 – and for Melody and Craig: Monday, August 24, and Thursday, September 17. Sarah Brigham, artistic director at Derby Theatre, said: "This is a fantastic opportunity for young people to gain audition experience and to perform alongside a professional company of actors. Brassed Off is going to be a big, bold and 'brassy' production which will also see a performance from local brass band, Derwent Brass, at every performance.
To book an audition slot, call 01332 593939 or visit www.derbytheatre.co.uk to book an audition/time slot. Once you have registered your details, you will then be sent more information via email.
For any questions, email learning@derbytheatre.co.uk. Please note that the audition slot needs to be booked in the name of the young person and the age of the young person will be required.
Brassed Off, adapted by Paul Allen, is a much-loved tale, full of heart and humour is made in Derby by the team who brought you Kes, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, and Solace of the Road. Balancing grit and wit with a poignant look at recent history, the performance also features live music.


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With 2016 now in full swing, I am preparing to speak at the 2016 ASAP Global Alliance Summit, "Partnering Everywhere: Expert Leadership for the Ecosystem," on March 1-4 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland, outside Washington, D.C. Here are some of the observations I will share on the ever-changing technology channel.
We are witnessing a changing of the guard from a channel perspective. Fewer companies will fit the traditional reseller or solution provider label, as many have transformed (or born into) a recurring revenue business model around managed services, cloud, SaaS integrations,line-of-business, and vertical specialists.
The channel topped out at roughly 1,000,000 companies worldwide in 2007, employing more than 10 million people. In addition, hundreds of thousands were employed indirectly at vendors, distributors, associations, and media organizations. The deep recession of 2008 had a major impact and hasn't bounced back the way most of us expected. While the broader economy is trending back up to 2008 levels, the channel continues to slide.
1. The channel is shrinking at an alarming rate: Recent reports from CompTIA and IPED show a current North American technology partner base of 160,000 companies (600,000 worldwide). It may sound like a healthy number, but it is down 36 percent since 2008 and continues to face 10 percent to 15 percent annual attrition for the foreseeable future.
Keep in mind the 160,000 includes a much broader audience than just resellers—it includes all kinds of consultants, coaches, etc. A more accurate number, including people who directly influence and resell hardware and software products, is closer to 75,000 (with half of those selling enough product profitably to sustain a business). Your future channel and alliance partners will be smaller in number, but more focused, specialized, and effective.
2. The channel is getting younger—much younger: Todd Thibodeaux, CEO of CompTIA, kicked off his ChannelCon keynote with several pieces of research. First, an estimated 40 percent of the entire channel will retire in the next 10 years. Yes, 4 in 10. Second, those retiring will be replaced by millennials. In fact, in 10 years, 75 percent of the channel demographic will not have been alive when IBM introduced the PC (and the channel as we know it) in 1981.
This generation grew up on computers and will be pursuing different business models than the traditional reseller models we have today. They will look more like vendors, with in-house development teams, software products, and intellectual property. In the future, strategic discussions with partners will be less about incentives and education and more about integrations and co-marketing.
3. The channel is small business, and getting smaller: Much of the attrition that I mentioned above has come from within channel companies. They are doing more with less. The average channel partner has eight employees, and 97 percent of them have fewer than 50.
With the rapid growth of freelancing (think oDesk and Elance), offshoring (Fiverr), and rapid software development (Mechanical Turk), many companies are outsourcing their own functions, such as marketing, operations, finance, and custom development. Vendors are looking at opportunities to help their partners with these functions and keep them focused on (selling and) delivering solutions for end customers.
4. Vendor numbers are exploding: The above trends have an interesting side effect—the number of vendors in the marketplace is growing at a surprising pace.
Channel companies are leveraging their deep industry knowledge with unique integration skills (across dozens of vendors' APIs) and creating products and specific intellectual property to deliver niche solutions.
At one time it was called "value add," but today partners are incorporating these ideas into new companies and products and then going to market themselves. These products have narrow addressable markets, and the need to find resellers will continue to grow.
I predict that in 10 years, the number of vendors will outnumber the amount of pure-play resellers. Start thinking about future competitive threats and how to manage co-opetition moving forward.
5. Influencers and connectors are becoming more important: Without naming names, our entire channel ecosystem boils down to a small number of individuals who connect large amounts of like-minded people. You probably know many of them!
For example, the North American IT channel has roughly 100 people that will get you one degree of separation from anyone else. These super-connectors are very different from one another—some are media, some run associations, others are vendors or distributors, others make a living on making connections for you.
The amount of noise and clutter will not stop growing. People buy from people they like. Economic scarcity is evolving into information scarcity. The network effect will drive winners and losers in the next 10 years. Start thinking about your network—do you have the right mix of influencers and connectors to drive your channel sales?
Seventy percent of all IT dollars are now being spent outside of IT by people that vendors and channel partners don't know all that well. Sales, marketing, finance, HR, operations, and development teams are rapidly deploying technology, and it is forcing the channel industry to get smarter.
These trends are reshaping the channel, not replacing it. As with every other threat in the past 30 years, the channel will come out stronger, more nimble, and better able to serve evolving customer needs.
March 1–4, 2016, ASAP Global Alliance Summit "Partnering Everywhere: Expert Leadership for the Ecosystem," at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland, USA.


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News Biology 20 July 2015
Single cell eyeball creature startles scientists
This rare, single-celled sea creature has fashioned itself an eye with a basic lens, cornea and retina. What could it tell us about the eye's evolution? Viviane Richter reports.
The warnowiid eye, left, and right an illustration of how the single-celled creature has fashioned an eye with basic components. – Gregory Gavelis University of British Columbia
Scientists studying microscopic organisms in a seawater sample found a creature that appeared to be a tiny floating eyeball staring back at them.
Although the creature is a single-celled organism, it possesses many of the features of the human eye, including a lens, cornea and retina. But its view of the world would be nothing like our own according to Greg Gavelis at the University of British Columbia and his colleagues, who published the work in Nature in July.
"It's really interesting that you can get complex eye structures at a subcellular level," says Thomas Richards, evolutionary biologist at the University of Exeter. "And what's so striking is they figured out how the components evolved."
The eye's complexity has fascinated evolutionists right back to Darwin. The idea that it could have formed by natural selection seemed "absurd in the highest possible degree" he wrote in On the origin of the species, later reasoning that the eye must have evolved in little steps from a basic light-detecting organ.
Studying the creature proved difficult, because it rapidly disintegrates
after being taken out of seawater
The marine microorganism known as a warnowiid seems to have embarked on just such a journey of evolution. The warnowiid is found off the coast of Canada and Japan, but only in tiny numbers. Researchers first stumbled across one more than a century ago, but studying the creature proved difficult because it rapidly disintegrates after being taken out of seawater.
To catch his own warnowiid, Gavelis searched seawater samples under a microscope for a year. When he eventually found one he froze it in plastic resin, preserving it like a fly trapped in amber. He then made a 3-D model by taking snapshots of the warnowiid under an electron microscope – and was stunned by what he saw.
While other single-celled creatures can detect light using "eyespots" – simple structures that allow an organism to tell dark from light – the warnowiid seemed to have repurposed its internal organelles to form what resembled the lens, cornea, iris and retina of a complex eye.
The "cornea", for example – the transparent outer layer at the front of the eye – was made of mitochondria, the bits of the cell normally responsible for energy production. The mitochondria in the warnowiid interlocked to form a sheet-like layer around the lens, curved to concentrate incoming light on to the "retina".
Like our own eyes, the creature's lens consists mainly of proteins - though the researchers haven't yet established what proteins the warnowiid uses.
But they know much more about the light-sensing "retina" at the back of the eye, showing it was made up of plastids - structures normally involved in photosynthesis. The team extracted genetic material from inside the plastids and found it rich in algal DNA. The team suspects that at some point during evolution, a warnowiid ancestor gobbled up some algae and adopted its photosynthetic equipment. When the organism later abandoned photosynthesis for the predatory life, it repurposed its light-capturing plastids into a light-sensing organ.
It is not clear how warnowiids use their "eye", but the authors believe they're used to hunt. Warnowiids spiral through the water as they swim and Gavelis thinks the eye lets them see flashes of light as it bounces off the single-celled organisms that are their prey. The lens likely concentrates incoming light to increase sensitivity – rather than projecting an image as our own eye does.
Richards wants to know whether the warnowiids can recognise shapes: "That would be pretty amazing!" He thinks we'll likely see more examples of how microbes have adapted sight in the future. "Most of the diversity of life on this planet is under-observed," he says.
Today's electron microscopes and DNA sequencing techniques may have answered some of Darwin's questions about the evolution of the eye. "Critics of evolution often talk about how there are no transitional forms of eyes," says Gavelis. "But they're alive and well in this case."
This article appeared in Cosmos 65 - Oct-Nov 2015 under the headline "Single-cell eyeball creature startles scientists"
Explore #evolution #eye #Sea creature #single-celled organism
Viviane Richter is a freelance science writer based in Melbourne.
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You know, mere words aren't enough to express how much I appreciate all my readers who follow my writings. That's why it's nice to be able to 'give back' through the giveaways that I hold now and then for all of you.
Well, truth be told, it's also nice to receive! Just the other day, I received this package in the mail. It was a prize that I won in a giveaway that Jeanie, or jv, of Makeup Merriment held a few weeks ago. She loves beauty products with natural ingredients, and so do I. Umm, our one vice is perhaps nail polish? Jeanie really knows her stuff when it comes to beauty products and I love how she expresses her thoughts on them in her posts.
Josie Maran Love Nest - Josie's Argan Favorites (she included two teabags too!).
Am I thrilled or am I thrilled? What a great way to get to try some Josie Maran products for the first time!
Thank you so much, Jeanie!!
I'm enjoying the mascara (even with that big ole brush!!!) and the argan oil is lovely on your cuticles!
shall wait for your review. Merry Christmas!
Congrats! It's great to see you won something too!
What an interesting box to try this brand. I can't wait to read your posts on it.
Hey, Nicole! Thank you! It's certainly nice to have won this travel set from this brand. I doubt very much that I can get Josie Maran products here in Holland. So, yay!!
Congratulations to the winner, well in this case it's you.
Yay congrats, those JM goodies look so pretty, and I 've read they are pretty awesome :).
Thank you ! and Happy Holidays to you too!!


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Disciplined cadavers: Crafting an ideal male body in the internet age
Corey Johansson | Guest writer
The thought leaders of the late 2010s subject themselves to a regimen of terrible eating and self-imposed abeyance. The funniest part is that half the time, so do I.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is a man under pressure. His company's profit streak conceals an ongoing net drop in its real users. He's facing renewed criticism for his social media platform's failure to offer a suitable response to combat right-wing extremism beyond "we're a great big marketplace of ideas". He's hounded in his very place of work, unable to use his own creation to simply tweet non sequiturs from the loo. Worse, he's probably bayingly hungry in a sluggish, aching kind of way all the time On a podcast with last month with a high profile anti-vaxxer and fitness guru, he revealed a fasting routine that outstripped most Buddhist traditions: a single meal during weekdays, a fast for the whole weekend.
A life sentence of work without the punctuation that gives it meaning, then . No Friday falafel after work, no picnics somewhere close to water if it's getting warm, no solemn and low-key comedown dinner you throw together before you head back into the work week. Dorsey looks slimmer and more wiry than most 42 year olds I've met. He also looks like he's wearing the toll of the asceticism – dull hair, bags under his eyes, a face receding under cheekbones that you can tell weren't meant to be that prominent. Most adult men who end up looking like this through circumstance would kill for the assurance of regular meals and comfort. We're not conditioned to expect the opposite.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey speaks during a press event on January 9, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images)
Dorsey is in fine company here. The late Steve Jobs was an increasingly aggressive faster who identified the nexus between eating, not eating and control early on. Walter Isaacson's authorised biography of the Apple founder notes that when he was young, "he learned that he could induce euphoria and ecstasy by fasting". Even as oncologists and nutritionists urged him to eat high-protein meals, his widow recalls how he would come to the table and stare sullenly at a full plate.
Speaking to Joe Rogan last July on yet another podcast, Jordan Peterson celebrated the perceived benefits of his all-meat diet ("I'm stronger, I can swim better, my gum disease is gone"). His descriptions of any attempt to slacken or not stay the course, for example by drinking some juice, sound like Ignatius J. Reilly's litany of medical complaints: "[The apple cider] took me out for a month…it was awful. It produced an overwhelming sense of impending doom…. I didn't sleep at all for 24 days."
Sickness, failing health and death are very real, and no group has exclusive dibs on them. The same applies to the most serious forms of disordered eating and its associated patterns of thought – men can and do experience debilitating diseases like anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. But we're not talking about that, really, because more than ever, it seems we're alive to the quotidian details of the weird tricks of successful men. They're suffering in paradise and making a very loud virtue of it.
And although the mentality underpinning that virtue is chronic and destructive, discussing it in those terms can feel too serious, too dramatic. As an illustration, if you say something like "women exist in a relentless panopticon of physical assessment where the intergenerational and peer impact of eating disorders is all-permeating, traumatic and sometimes fatal" it's a bit purple, but it doesn't seem wrong. Going as hard to set out the exact societal condition of a bunch of dudes down the gym feels excessive. A lot of the time, men's body issues are at once systemic, compromising, undignified, and totally absurd.
Take a look at your boys. They're eating hypothetical caveman diets to achieve the spry, trim and tweedy look of a sharp-minded professor/investor. Or lurking half-seen in the permanent twenty-something dungeon man caves, pallid biceps in between drums of protein powder. Or having a Wiki-level crack at Buddhism in second year after a student bender flame-out, and doing a snap fast to show (girls? the lads? themselves?) that they can, until the whites of their eyes look like they're about to fall like snooker balls down the ramp into their heads.
The greatest tension comes in those social circles where caring about your appearance must not be seen to matter. Does your city have critical mass of flannel-and-beer band dudes? If you're reading this early in the week and late at night, those dudes are out running when they are less likely to be seen doing so, even if it's freezing and they could have done it hours earlier by daylight. This is stone cold fact. I've been in the pack.
Trying to describe this all appropriately is difficult. On the one hand it's obviously insanely funny. On the other hand, people are temporary or permanently leading lives that can seem like a form of self-imposed unhappiness and that's tragic. But then again, most of our experiences as men need to kept in very tight perspective, given the overall blessed state these little rituals take place in.
Jordan Peterson at The Cambridge Union on November 02, 2018 in Cambridge, UK. (Photo by Chris Williamson/Getty Images)
There's plenty of lines I can draw to separate me and most of my male friends from Dorsey, Peterson, et al. The techbro proselytising is hollow and blinkered – Jobs was by all accounts a personal and professional tyrant; Peterson kind of seems like he's just pivoting his creepy biological determinism to force-feeding himself disgusting amounts of meat. These people are corny at best and my fundamental political enemies at worst, and I think my 'active boys' chat DMs exhibit a very subsistence-level pride in knowing We Are Not Them. But ultimately, I'm not above the same micro-pathologies myself. I police my own body – not with brutality, but with the pedantic, sad force of a traffic cop handing out infringements.
Here is a bunch of things I have done to keep myself at, or to move toward, some imagined physical standard:
Skipping lunch for several days on end in high school after my mum pointed at Anthony Kiedis dancing shirtless during the 'Round the World' video and announced "That's what your torso will look like when you're grown up".
Doing a 100-push-ups-a-day routine for a week before a 14th birthday party at the Kaipara's beloved and decrepit Parakai pools and was too sore and stuff to actually swim.
Foregoing food until arduous things like an essay or a chore were done, or feeling like a failure.
Foregoing food until nice things like reading a chapter of a good book were done, or feeling like a failure!
Overeating upon doing this until I absolutely feel queasy.
Ridiculous habit of power walking everywhere to make up for doing the above, which I've had to consciously moderate into a less quasi-military march.
Constantly clenching my abdominal muscles to hide a gut, or worse, my perception of a gut, and retaining a weird and sore robotic posture as a result.
Press-ups with a bunch of books in my backpack, before skipping a meal, before going out to drink.
To this day, a restless, fidgety anxiety if I've skipped an exercise routine I'd previously committed to, in order to do something pleasant and social or even just marginally fucking easy on myself.
Trying to eat around others surreptitiously, generally springing for the sad desk lunch despite being otherwise reasonably outgoing.
A huge disclaimer around all the above is that I should note that I have led and still lead an extremely fortunate and comfortable life with a very kind family. I've just tended to take a few minor steps of my own to remove the shine.
A recent Calvin Klein underwear campaign featuring musician Shawn Mendes
Body dysmorphia, a mental disorder which various Western studies say is experienced by between 1% and 2% of the male population, is probably under-reported and under-diagnosed. Part of this is simply because a lot of men are terrible at looking after themselves, delaying medical appointments out of stoicism, and delaying various hygiene and lifestyle essentials out of being too afraid to ask. Part of it is that a decent-sized cluster of men who have won by our society's terms and standards wear forms of self-imposed control, restraint and endurance as a medal of honour. Part of it is men like me on the (relatively) harmless end of the spectrum who play it all down, perhaps not unreasonably – the public account of dysmorphia is one of dangerous and desperate steps (starvation, steroids, countless cosmetic surgery procedures) and not of mildly embarrassing compulsion. The stigma doesn't leave place for anyone who is 'neurotic' in the lay sense.
Where it cuts through to my sense of self, though, is realising that in some essential physical and psychological ways, I'm not above Dorsey, Jobs, Peterson et al. I'm unlikely to ever get an opportunity to speak to the benefits of a diet on some crypto-fash podcast, but I'm likely to continue to police and punish my own wants, and make myself do physical or material work when I'm too tired, too sick, or can (rightly!) just feel a bit lazy. This isn't just about putting our bodies through it in some physical sense, but also about the intangible qualities of achievement, success, austerity and self-reliance (and the guilt in not meeting the mark of any of these) – values that I and most other boys have been fed from year dot.
I feel like in theory, I get all of this. I have set myself a few articles of faith in terms of how I see the world: that capitalism as we know it in the 21st century is corrosive to the soul; that feeling like you should be working or productive all the time is a self-defeating lie that form of capitalism has fed us; that rewarding ourselves with rest and indulgence is not a straightforward failure of nerve; that we can be intrinsically loved and of worth despite our level of ability or appearance. But if I can't observe these starting with myself, it's all just lip service. I'm a semi-willing and less successful participant in the same carnival of self-interest, solipsism, protein and abeyance.
It's been a recent and useful epiphany. I've tried to shake things up as a result. I'll crack a beer on my lounge floor immediately after a set of weights rather than fret about what it achieved, something that I'm assuming the barrelly and beloved Anthony Kiedis himself would be proud of. I ride my new bike, which wasn't built for speed, slower and via more scenic routes. If I run, I implement very basic and pleasing tasks as part of it : to go somewhere cool and get a photo and then go back, to absolutely foul up a gentrifying record store on the return trek with the grime of my forearms, and maybe buy something, maybe not.
In an age of constant hagiography and oversharing, we've learnt that plenty of those who seek to control us (as their subjects, their customers, their taxonomies) start with themselves. If I want no part in doing that, I'll try to start with the same.
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"Invoicing each month, and requesting payment by return, can be an expensive and inefficient way for Care Homes to collect their fees," comments, Luisa Grey, a Director at Eazipay, adding: "Invoicing almost invites payment delays and it only takes one or two persistent late-payers to start having an impact on the standard of care and support that Care Homes work so hard to offer.
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Tonight at Words + Music, independent publishing company Curbside Splendor celebrates the release of its spring titles, Tim Kinsella's Let Go and Go On and On and Megan Stielstra's Once I Was Cool among them. The local writers will be joined by Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh and artist Tony Fitzpatrick, with music from the Walking Bicycles and More Gorgeous at the Empty Bottle.
Everything Is Terrible!, the experimental found-footage film collective, screens the feature Doggie Woggiez! Poochie Woochiez! (2012) and a remake of Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain featuring a canine cast. It's all happening tonight at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
Check out Argentine singer-songwriter Juana Molina tonight at the Old Town School of Folk Music's Maurer Hall. In Soundboard Peter Margasak writes, "gentle acoustic guitar arpeggios in seductive yin-yang blends help frame Molina's tender, matter-of-fact singing, and when a beat does kick in, it strengthens the song's mesmerizing power instead of hijacking its direction."


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Penny Hardaway, Mike Conley to play the Danny Thomas Celebrity-Am. Which celebrities will join them?
The Danny Thomas Celebrity-Am returns next week.
Following a year off due to the pandemic, the golf event (which is closed to the public) is set for Wednesday — the day before the World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational tees off at TPC Southwind in Memphis — at Spring Creek Ranch Golf Course in Collierville.
Memphis basketball coach Penny Hardaway and Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley (a longtime member of the Memphis Grizzlies, where he was a fan favorite) will headline the round. Also heading to the Mid-South to help raise money and awareness for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are actress Jennie Garth ("Beverly Hills 90210"), Oscar-nominated actor Haley Joel Osment ("The Sixth Sense," "Forrest Gump") and 2007 National League MVP Jimmy Rollins.
The full list of participants is below and is subject to change before Wednesday's tee time.
Danny Thomas Celebrity-Am list of participants
Wells Adams, "The Bachelor" (Season 12) contestant, former Nashville radio host
Robbie Amell, actor ("The Tomorrow People," "The Flash")
Nate Bargatze, comedian, Nashville native
Ian Bohen, actor ("Teen Wolf," "Yellowstone")
Bailey Chase, actor ("Saving Grace," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer")
Ambyr Childers, actress ("Ray Donovan," "You")
Mike Conley, Utah Jazz guard
Colin Donnell, actor ("Arrow," "The Affair")
Colt Ford, musician, former professional golfer
Jennie Garth, actress ("Beverly Hills 90210")
Penny Hardaway, Memphis basketball coach
Jay Hayden, actor ("The Catch," "Grey's Anatomy")
Garrett Hedlund, actor ("Friday Night Lights," "Triple Frontier")
Josh Henderson, actor ("Dallas," "Desperate Housewives")
Ben Higgins, star of "The Bachelor" season 20
Andrew Howard, actor ("Tenet," "Taken 3")
Joe Mauer, former MLB catcher (2009 American League MVP, 6-time All-Star)
Austin Nichols, actor ("One Tree Hill," "The Walking Dead")
Jeffrey Nordling, actor ("Big Little Lies," "24")
Haley Joel Osment, actor ("The Sixth Sense," "Forrest Gump")
Chord Overstreet, actor/musician ("Glee")
Al Paris, singer
Kevin Rahm, actor ("Desperate Housewives," "Mad Men")
Luke Rockhold, mixed martial artist
Jimmy Rollins, former MLB infielder (2007 National League MVP)
Rory Scovel, comedian/actor
Nick Swisher, former MLB outfielder
Aaron Tveit, actor ("Gossip Girl," "Schmigadoon!")
Patrick Warburton, actor ("Seinfeld," "Family Guy")
Kevin Zegers, actor ("Gossip Girl," "Frozen")


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Food, glorious food is the focus of More Than a Shop episode six
In Digging in: the local food revolution, Elizabeth Alker talks to vegetable gardener, YouTuber and author Huw Richards and Incredible Edible's Clare Negus. We also hear from the fantastic community-owned and run Radcliffe Market.
Huw Richard has a social media following of over 250,000 and a mission to help as many people as possible to grow their own food, inexpensively. Clare Negus works with the Incredible Edible group in Heaton Park, Greater Manchester – one of hundreds of groups globally who create kind, confident and connected communities through the power of food.
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Huw says: "At school, food is just seen as this thing that was given to you. You were never told how it was produced or anything. So on one side of things, you see this rise of veganism and the other side of things you see people just show no interest whatsoever."
"I invite each household to choose something they'd really enjoy growing and would be excited about. This could be strawberries or even potatoes… It's about choosing something fun to grow."
I'm trying to reconnect people with where food has come from. When people don't realise the effort that goes into producing food, you get food waste because there's no respect for it.
– Gardener and author Huw Richard
Clare Negus welcomes anyone to be a part of an Incredible Edible group – if you eat, you're in!
"Everything that's grown in an Incredible Edible project you can take and harvest yourself. You could be part of a community allotment for instance, so you don't have to necessarily do it on your own. I think it's more fun when you do it with other people."
More Than a Shop series producer Geoff Bird also visited Radcliffe Market – pre-lockdown – a Community Benefit Society, which means it is owned and run by the community, for the community. Rob Grant, one of the market's Directors, explains:
"All the money that we earn through the bar and through the rents and through the people visiting is reinvested in the site to make it bigger and better."
It's part of our principles that the money we earn and the impact we have is for Radcliffe. And we just want to build a sense of pride back into what is a great place to live.
– Rob Grant, Director, Radcliffe Market
One of the market traders, Katie who owns Northern Glory, a food stall celebrating northern food, says: "Because our profits are spread out within the community, I think people feel like spending money here is a good thing rather than just going into someone else's pocket."
"We have to cook fresh food on site, make sure that all our packaging is compostable. No single use plastic here. And we have to make sure that our foods come in locally."
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A woman who once tipped the scales at 430 pounds is revealing her incredible transformation after shedding more than half her body weight.
Megan Boeh, a 34-year-old hair stylist from Missouri, shares her story on the new TLC series Skin Tight.
Five years ago, she tipped the scales at 430 pounds and wore a size 38 pants.
She then underwent gastric bypass surgery and dropped an astounding 246 pounds. After that dramatic weight loss, she was left with loose, sagging skin across her legs and stomach.
"It's embarrassing to be able to hold and pull on my skin in the way that I can," she said. "The skin that I had it used to cause a lot of pain, I lot of lower back pain, knee pain, hip pain."
She underwent another surgery to remove 42 pounds of excess skin.
Her final new look will be revealed on Skin Tight, premiering Wednesday night.


This blogpost contains brief notes by me (Juline) from a clinical perspective on the paper cited below. The notes are made for my personal use, but posted here in case they are of interest or use to others.
The paper's title includes "self-conscious emotions" which include shame, guilt, embarrassment, jealousy, pride and empathy. However the paper refers to only two of them: guilt and shame. Both have long been associated with suicide; and both arise often in the context of women's experiences of child sexual abuse, which is investigated as a mediating factor in the conversion of guilt and shame into suicidal thoughts. High levels of shame are known to be a factor inhibiting recovery following childhood sexual trauma.
The researchers wanted to know whether "a history of childhood sexual trauma would be implicated in the relationship between self-conscious emotions [here meaning guilt and shame] and suicidal thoughts".
It was not found, contrary to the researchers' expectations, that women with a history of child sexual abuse were more prone to distress than those who were not.
A direct positive association was found between guilt/shame and the frequency of suicidal thoughts.
It is important to understand the nuanced relationship between shame/guilt and suicidal ideation, in which trauma potentially plays a plays a significant part.
This has important clinical implications. The study suggests the need for carefully assessing each client's experience of trauma and guilt/shame; and the aftermath of traumatic experiences should be taken into account to optimise the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions.
The paper goes on to reprise topics such as the links found in the existing literature between shame and child sexual abuse and indications for therapeutic approached for different instances. These are linked to, but not based on, the findings of the paper.
As noted in the paper, the exploration of suicidal ideation is, where appropriate, central to psychotherapy. A psychotherapist will routinely explore a client's sense of guilt or shame where this is present; and will be aware that any childhood trauma, disclosed or not, may be a factor in both the origin of these and suicidal thoughts. Working with shame is already well embedded within the literature of working with clients who have experienced sexual abuse. It is not obvious (to me) how the headline findings would have a practical impact on how a psychotherapist might already work with clients. A possibility is that the 'careful assessment' recommended includes more systematic screening for such factors early in the relationship, though this might be inimical to the client-led ethos of many psychotherapists.
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The pandemic resurges and the world continues to turn. Whereas essential items in my mum's handbag were lipstick and a cotton hankie, I now automatically check for hand sanitiser and a mask before leaving my front door. I can't say it's exactly second nature as a part of my (emotional) brain still hopes I might wake up and find it's all been a dreadful nightmare. Whilst society strives to adapt, some days, I'm not actually sure whether I'm acclimatising or in complete denial.
I was invited to join The Aspire: Reinvent Virtual Conference 2020 this week courtesy of Dr Sam Collins. The conference series is bringing together women – and a few men – from around the world who aim to create a career and a 'life of impact and visibility'. Aspire for Equality aims to inspire, empower and support like-minded women to make changes in their lives and careers through virtual conferences, workshops and event content, and tailored mentoring. Founder Sam Collins is a social entrepreneur, speaker and author, and highly engaging and passionate about bringing women together in support of one another. The international programme of speakers' first-hand stories over the two-day event were candid, moving and inspiring. My first virtual conference, it was extremely well organised and presented. There were networking opportunities and break-out workshops, as well as short exercise and meditation sessions, just as you would expect in reality. A new Sam Collins Podcast series is available on Spotify if you'd like to find out more about Aspire's work. The third in this year's event series is Aspire Resolve Virutal Conference runs from 3 to 4 December.
Six escape to the country
Grade II listed Colleton Hall. Photo Oliver's Travels.
In response to the government's rule of six Oliver's Travels are offering some of its largest UK properties at a discounted rate of up to 50%.
For instance, make yourself at home at Colleton Hall, a Grade II listed country house in north Devon. Featuring four grand reception rooms, a south facing terrace, thirty-eight acres of private grounds to walk and a lake for canoeing. Exmoor, Exeter and a variety of popular beaches are all within easy reach but, frankly, who needs to venture out when you can safely enjoy playing To the Manor Born for a few days.
Colleton Hall is offering 20% off stays of three nights or more for groups of six on available dates throughout September, October, November and December (excluding the festive period). A three-night stay in October normally £2,903 will cost £2,322 (working out at £387 per person), saving £581 based on 23 to 26 October dates. The Colleton East Wing, a separate annexe with its own entrance and three bedrooms, is also available for groups of six.
L to R: Frans Hals (1582 – 1666), The Laughing Cavalier, Netherlands, 1624, (c) Trustees of The Wallace Collection; An Enquiring Mind: Manolo Blahník at the Wallace Collection (2019). Photo Irene Caswell.
The magnificent Wallace Collection has this week announced a revised programme of exhibitions for 2021. The focus will be two of the Collection's finest jewels, masterpieces of Flemish and Dutch art, displayed alongside other works by their artists.
First on the agenda will be Rubens: Reuniting the Great Landscapes. Peter Paul Rubens's (1577-1640) two great masterpieces of landscape painting, The Rainbow Landscape (The Wallace Collection) and A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning (The National Gallery) will be reunited for the first time in over 200 years.
Peter Paul Rubens's Rainbow Landscape, (c) Trustees of The Wallace Collection
Next, in autumn 2021, Frans Hals's (1582/3-1666) iconic painting, The Laughing Cavalier (1624) will be displayed together with a careful selection of the artist's best male portraits from Europe and North America. The painting is one of my favourite pieces. The Cavalier's sardonic expression and his rich attire exudes the romance of the swashbuckler genre. The Frans Hals: The Male Portrait exhibition will demonstrate how Hals revealed his sitters' characters like no one else before him.
Rubens: Reuniting the Great Landscapes (19 April to 13 September 2021). Frans Hals: The Male Portrait (23 September to 30 January 2021). The Wallace Museum. www.wallacecollection.org
Tate Archive at 50
L to R: International Surrealist Exhibition (1936) and Vanessa Bell painting Lady Robert Cecil (1905). Both photos gelatin silver print on paper. Photos courtesy Tate Archive @Tate.
Tate Archive is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a new display of British art from 1600 to the 2000s. Items from over 100 archive collections tell the story of new beginnings, historic moments and personal histories. Treasures including sketchbooks and drawings, as well as unpublished photographs and letters, from the world's largest archive of British art. With a special focus on the 20th century, materials have been selected from each year from 1900 to 1999. Vanessa Bell, John Constable, Lubaina Himid, Derek Jarman, L.S. Lowry, Ronald Moody, Marlow Moss, Donald Rodney and Jo Spence amongst many others feature.
Rare items on show include the programme for Yoko Ono's event at the pioneering Destruction in Art symposium in London in 1966, shown with a fragment of Biba fabric from her performance of Cut Piece. Further highlights include materials from The Thin Black Line, one of three exhibitions curated by Lubaina Himid in the early 1980s, which marked the arrival on the British art scene of a radical generation of young Black and Asian women artists.
Tate Archive is 50: A Journey through the World's Largest Archive of British Art at the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Archive Gallery, Lower Level, Tate Britain (12 October 2020 – Autumn). Pre-booking is required. www.tate.org.uk
Arctic: Climate and Culture
Arctic: culture and climate. Photo The British Museum.
A reminder that Arctic: culture and climate opens this week at The British Museum. Developed in collaboration with Arctic communities the exhibition will feature objects from ancient mammoth ivory sculpture to modern refitted snow mobiles to celebrate the ingenuity and resilience of Arctic Peoples throughout history. A powerful story of respectful relationships with icy worlds and how Arctic Peoples have harnessed the weather and climate to thrive. (22 October to 21 February). Tickets, adults £18. http://www.britishmuseum.org.
Five top tips for spotting winter wildlife
Mountain hare. Photograph courtesy of Paul Sharman.
Scotland is a given for incredible opportunities to encounter wildlife, from pure white Mountain Hares and Ptarmigan in their winter coats, to the Golden Eagle and iconic Red Deer, both notoriously difficult to spot. Paul Sharman of Hebridean Adventures, a specialist wildlife watching operator, offers his top tips for nature enthusiasts hoping to see elusive wildlife species in their natural habitat.
Be in the right place at the right time for the best chance of success. A little forward planning and research will pay dividends if you're hoping to seek out something in particular.
Plan your visit accordingly to maximise your time. If you have limited time, for instance, there are excellent commercial wildlife hides where you might see Scottish specialities like red squirrels and crested tits. Remember to take some birdseed or peanuts in your pocket!
Be comfortable and have what you need to enjoy your day. Check the weather forecast, wear clothing layers for differing climates and pack a drink, warm hat, spare camera battery, and so on.
The closer you look, the more you see. Getting too focused trying to spot the larger, even more glamorous species, you will miss the dozens or even hundreds of different flora and fauna species around you that are just as fascinating.
Hebridean Adventures offer wildlife watching cruises in Scotland such as, my particular favourite, trips around the islands of the Outer Hebrides, and somewhere I would like to explore. This includes St Kilda, the Isle of Skye, the Small Isles, Shiants and Summer Isles, the Minch and the scenic west coast of the Highlands, searching for whales, dolphins, puffins, eagles and other marine and coastal wildlife in association with wildlife watching equipment specialists ww.swarovskioptik.com.
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Outdoor adventure or wellness holiday in an exotic location? Photo Beau Monde Traveler Magazine.
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That's all for this week. Please share your recommendations in the comments. Stay safe and well.
As always please check the Foreign travel advice web site for the latest on domestic and international travel guidelines.
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Hommage à Sisi
At PR Avenue`s initiative an exquisite event took place on 24th of April 2018 in Bucharest as a tribute to celebrate 180 years from the birth of Empress Elisabeth of Austria and Queen of Hungary.
Bringing the royal elements in our modern time, we only revealed an unique event, hommage to the one who was called the empress of people, always fighting for their happiness and beliefs.
With Hommage à Sisi initiative, I wanted to see in Bucharest a different kind of event, unique, which brings back in front of the audience values as courage, dignity, honor, verticality in the same place with beauty, luxury, art. Something with authentic content and to prove is not a contradiction between the past and the present. More than 250 people attended: over 10 embassies, princes, companies, chambers of commerce, mass media, TV stations, celebrities, key people and the media coverage has more than 250 appearances.
It was a mixt of cultures, underlined by all the details and of course by the mixt of collections - The reinterpretation of Sisi nowadays by a Romanian and by an Austrian designer.


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As well as being versatile and adjustable, PEX pipes are extremely resilient, there is less possibility of future leaks, they are quieter, resistant against extreme high and low temperature conditions, efficient, provide rapid flowing water, can aid in reducing your utility bills, are environment-safe, and last a lifetime! Repiping with PEX is lower priced than plumbing with copper because the material is quite a bit cheaper and demands a whole lot less work to install a totally new plumbing system using PEX water pipes.
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PEX Repipe or Copper Plumbing Pipes? What do typical people in Calabasas, CA go for?
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/ Credit cycle.. What credit cycle?
Credit cycle.. What credit cycle?
Credit cycle no more… The differing rate outlooks are being interpreted as telling us that the credit cycle is no longer co-ordinated between regions. The assumption here is that there is a credit cycle at all. Higher rates/tighter policy likely in the US, lower rates/looser policy possibly coming in the eurozone and China/Asia steered the same way as the latter suggests a breakdown in the global linkage of the "cycle". There may still be the vestiges of one in the US, but we would argue that the credit cycle as we have always known it is broken, as we continue to try and make sense of the global economy. We are in uncharted waters. That's what the central banks' manipulation of markets through massive monetary easing has brought us. To save the world from collapse, we had concerted and unprecedented loose policy as the central banks kept the global economy afloat and prevented a catastrophic financial collapse. That started 7 years ago. The politicians have failed in their duty since then (lack of real structural reform). Anyway, we have the prospect of a rate hike in the US in December and a possible cut in the eurozone (or something else) around the same time. The traditional view that the European economy follows the trajectory of the US one – but with a 6-9 month delay – no longer holds, we believe.
Euro-denominated credit should beat dollar risk… That means higher underlying yields in the US will eat away at total returns in corporate bonds, whilst lower yields here will help support returns. On the other hand, if the economy is improving in the US (and it is sustainable), then that ought to help spreads tighten more than they might in the eurozone (on the back of improving credit metrics). That is, benchmark funds in the US should outperform euro-denominated ones. So far, classical relative value dynamics between the two asset classes. Sterling corporate bonds fit somewhere in between. However, the additional toggle factor comes from demand. Lower yields in the eurozone (ECB buying more government bonds and/or increasing the scope of the buying programme to corporate bonds) will just bring greater demand for corporate debt. So spreads will tighten, as there will in no way be enough supply. That will help benchmark players. As an aside, the tighter the spreads and the lower the yield the more violent the volatility and market swings – this is a given! There might also be greater M&A in the US (although it looks like it may have topped out) if CEOs believe they have turned the corner, which is another reason to broadly stay steered towards euro-denominated corporate bonds. As for Asian/EM assets, there has been and will be further fallout on higher US rates. Generally we would stay away, but we recognise that some of the bigger blue-chip like companies based in the emerging markets will offer good value and opportunities. Do your credit work, but be prepared for some mark-to-market losses.
Whopping payrolls sets course for a hike in December… So US Treasury yields jumped higher and dragged eurozone government bonds with them, though by less. We still have much resistance to higher yields. The difference between the 10-year Treasury/Bund rose too, to a record high of 167bp, before settling back at 164bp. Recall, we suggested 200bp is a real possibility. Friday's response to the huge payroll number was initially euphoric: the prospect for higher rates was ignored and equities chose to believe instead that growth was more important and that the US will help lift the global economy from its quagmire. Into the rest of that session and over the weekend, it was about how the Fed will control the pace of subsequent increases. US stocks closed flat on Friday, European stocks were higher with the DAX taking the lead and corporate credit ended the session tighter. We had a new deal from Sanef (10-year, Eur600m), with the supply total limping over the Eur4bn MTD level. The Markit iBoxx IG corporate bond index was lower at 150.3bp while the HY index managed 4bp of tightening to B+465bp. Main and X-Over were little moved, up slightly at 71bp and 294bp respectively.
Chinese imports fell 18.8% yoy in October and exports declined almost 7%, figures realised on Sunday showed. For September, these were 20.4% and 3.7% respectively. Euro area GDP numbers for Q3 are this week, and we have US retail sales and the Michigan consumer sentiment survey to look forward to. Have a good week.