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Retrato de Andrés de Santa Cruz es un óleo sobre lienzo obra de José Gil de Castro en Lima en 1836. Es parte de la colección pictórica del Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú (Pueblo Libre, Lima). La pintura retrata al militar Andrés de Santa Cruz sirviendo al gobierno peruano, antes de proclamar la Confederación Perú-Boliviana.

Enlaces externos
 Historia y cultura: revista del Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú, Volumen 18.
 Museo Nacional de Antropología y Arqueología: guía general.

Pintura peruana del siglo XIX
Cuadros de 1836
Pintura de historia


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Al Dahana Announces Dubai Court Decision: Nissan Motor Co and its Middle Eastern subsidiary found Diverting Profits from its Partner for a decade and loses in Court in favour of Al Dahana FZCO in a landmark lawsuit Amounting to approx. AED 1.3 Billion
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 13, 2021 -- Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. and Nissan Middle East have been charged to pay in excess of AED 1.3 billion (including interest) to the Partner "Al Dahana FZCO" in a landmark ruling in the case filed by the latter.
The case, first filed in 4th July, 2019, sought compensation for damages suffered due to breach of contract committed by Nissan, its subsidiary Nissan Middle East and two appointed Directors. The Dubai Court of First Instance initially issued its judgement ordering Nissan to jointly pay Al Dahana over AED 1.3 billion, inclusive of interest, on 29th September, 2021.
Following the review of presented evidence and provisions of the law, on 4th October, 2021, the Dubai Court of Urgent Matters issued a precautionary attachment order over goods and moveables, bank accounts and balances of the two companies and valued the debt owed by them to be approx AED 1.3 Billion including interest.
Speaking about the landmark ruling, Mr. Nasser Watar – CEO for Al Dahana Group said, "Al Dahana is extremely happy with the court's verdict and would like to thank Dubai Courts for their impartial and just ruling. We feel heard, and believe this will pave the way for other regional companies to seek justice as well."
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Filing deadline extended to April 18
The Internal Revenue Service opened the 2011 tax filing season by announcing that taxpayers have until April 18 to file their tax returns.
Taxpayers will have until April 18 to file their 2010 tax returns and pay any tax due because Emancipation Day, a holiday observed in the District of Columbia, falls this year on April 15. By law, District of Columbia holidays impact tax deadlines in the same way that federal holidays do; therefore, all taxpayers will have three extra days to file this year.
Taxpayers requesting an extension will have until Oct. 17 to file their 2010 tax returns.
The IRS expects to receive more than 140 million individual tax returns this year, with most of those being filed by the April 18 deadline.
The IRS also cautioned taxpayers with foreign accounts to properly report income from these accounts and file the appropriate forms on time to avoid stiff penalties.
"The IRS has made important strides at stopping tax avoidance using offshore accounts," IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said. "We continue to focus on offshore tax compliance and people with offshore accounts need to pay taxes on income from those accounts."
The IRS also reminded tax professionals preparing returns for a fee that this is the first year that they must have a Preparer Tax Identification Number (PTIN). Tax return preparers should register immediately using the new PTIN sign-up system available through http://www.irs.gov/taxpros.
Who must wait to file
For most taxpayers, the 2011 tax filing season starts on schedule. However, tax law changes enacted by Congress and signed by President Obama in December mean some people need to wait until mid- to late February to file their tax returns in order to give the IRS time to reprogram its processing systems.
Some taxpayers — including those who itemize deductions on Form 1040, Schedule A — will need to wait to file. This includes taxpayers impacted by any of three tax provisions that expired at the end of 2009 and were renewed by the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 enacted Dec. 17. Those who need to wait to file include:
Taxpayers claiming itemized deductions on Schedule A. Itemized deductions include mortgage interest, charitable deductions, medical and dental expenses as well as state and local taxes. In addition, itemized deductions include the state and local general sales tax deduction that was also extended and which primarily benefits people living in areas without state and local income taxes. Because of late Congressional action to enact tax law changes, anyone who itemizes and files a Schedule A will need to wait to file until mid- to late February.
Taxpayers claiming the Higher Education Tuition and Fees Deduction. This deduction for parents and students — covering up to $4,000 of tuition and fees paid to a post-secondary institution — is claimed on Form 8917. However, the IRS emphasized that there will be no delays for millions of parents and students who claim other education credits, including the American Opportunity Tax Credit extended last month and the Lifetime Learning Credit.
Taxpayers claiming the Educator Expense Deduction. This deduction is for kindergarten through grade 12 educators with out-of-pocket classroom expenses of up to $250. The educator expense deduction is claimed on Form 1040, Line 23 and Form 1040A, Line 16.
In addition to extending those tax deductions for 2010, the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act also extended those deductions for 2011 and a number of other tax deductions and credits for 2011 and 2012 such as the American Opportunity Tax Credit and the modified Child Tax Credit, which help families pay for college and other child-related expenses. The act also provides various job creation and investment incentives including 100 percent expensing and a two-percent payroll tax reduction for 2011. Those changes have no effect on the 2011 filing season.
The IRS will announce a specific date when it can start processing tax returns impacted by the recent tax law changes. In the interim, taxpayers affected by these tax law changes can start working on their tax returns, but they should not submit their returns until IRS systems are ready to process the new tax law changes. Additional information will be available at http://irs.gov.
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Densign White  (born 21 December 1961) is a male retired British judoka. White competed at the 1984, 1988 and the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Judo career
White won the first of his nine British titles after winning the light-middleweight division at the British Judo Championships in 1980. He stepped up in weight the following year to claim a second title and then completed three in a row when reverting back to -78kg in 1982. After settling at middleweight, he won a fourth title in 1983 before he was selected to represent Great Britain at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He competed in the men's 86 kg division, where he reached the quarter final and repechage final but lost to Walter Carmona in the bronze medal play off. In 1986, he won the silver medal in the 86kg weight category at the judo demonstration sport event as part of the 1986 Commonwealth Games.

A fifth and sixth British title in 1985 and 1987 was followed by a bronze medal at the 1987 World Judo Championships and a silver medal at the 1987 European Judo Championships. In 1988, he won British title number seven and repeated his success at the 1988 European Championships in Pamplona by winning another silver medal. It was also during 1988 that he went to his second Olympic Games, competing in the men's -86kg class and once again just failed to secure a medal after losing in the repechage final.

He won an eighth British title in 1989 and secure a bronze medal at the 1990 European Judo Championships in Frankfurt. He also represented England and won a gold medal in the 86kg middleweight category, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand. In 1989 he won his ninth and final British title before represting Great Britain for a third time at the Olympic Games. In Barcelona, he competed in the men's 86kg category, failing to progress from Pool A. It was his last major championships and ended a very successful career.

Personal life
White is married to Tessa Sanderson. He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to diversity in sport as chair of Sporting Equals.

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British male judoka
Olympic judoka of Great Britain
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Commonwealth Games medallists in judo
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
Judoka at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
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When talking about marketing you get your financial department a light heart stroke, because what they see are invoices from different software subscriptions or licenses and social media and search engine ads cost. But smart businesses already appreciate and embrace these costs, since if they are put it in use and spend their money wisely in the right way they lead to higher ROIs.
Whoever has passed a marketing course knows the basics of marketing. But when it comes to applying them to a digital marketing strategy you are in difficulty. The reason is you would need to apply your knowledge to the features your software offers.
In case of HubSpot, it is not solely the software you get but a pretty well-defined digital marketing strategy - Inbound Marketing- that takes what you have theoretically learned and puts them in a piratical and easily applicable guided process. The back-end architecture of the platform removes all the fuss around set up and configuration and makes the process much simpler. In other words, you just need to work on marketing.
The Inbound Marketing methodology brings the customer in the center of your marketing ecosystem, not just theoretically but the core of the software is also the contacts module.
Lower cost of ownership: Cloud solutions eliminate the need for servers and local installations of the software which is depending in the size of your organization could be huge. You would not only need servers but also system admins to manage that. with HubSpot you just need a computer connected to internet a browser and your HubSpot login credentials.
Free Updates: If you use a locally installed or on-premise software you always need to pay for licences of the newer version once the core or modules are updated. But with almost any SaaS like HubSpot you get the updates for free.
Full time support: Having the core of the software installed in Data Centers and managed by the supplier, you have full time support in case anything goes wrong. And having the support team working on the core you get to the bottom of your problem much faster than if you have the software installed locally.
Easier Integration: Cloud platforms and in particular HubSpot come pre-loaded with APIs, which makes their integration less of a complication.
Access anytime, anywhere, from any device: Basic cloud computing huh? Just fire up your browser and type in www.HubSpot.com and there you have your software.
Free SSL certification in a few clicks: Hosting your website in HubSpot's COS (content management system) has its advantages. for one, you can have all your activities sorted out from a single point of access. Then of course you can optimize your web-pages for better marketing performance with the same effective logic overall. And more importantly, you can get your website SSL certified only with a few clicks, meaning your website can be listed under HTTPS instead of HTTP which other than security reasons you will be ranked higher in google search results.
Smart Content: With HubSpot's methodology you should personalize your communication based on the attributes of your buyers, given it is the device they use to visit your pages, or the life-cycle stage they are in, or simple the location they are in. With HubSpot's smart content you can show your visitors the content which is most relevant to them.
Smart Forms: Marketers are at times eager to get as much information as possible from their leads, so they make long forms that asks a lot of information. Using HubSpot's smart forms you can put in a few relevant fields in the form and add a few other fields as smart field which will be replaced with the fields the leads have already field, during the future interactions of the leads with your content.
Competitor Analysis: With HubSpot competitors tool, not only can you evaluate your standing regarding your marketing activities, but you can also compare yourself with your competitor, simply by adding their website to the tool.
Built-in free CRM: Purchasing HubSpot marketing platform is like hitting two (even more) birds with one stone. Once you opt-in as a HubSpot customer you will get free access to a built-in CRM which is particularly designed to help your sales people sell better. I will delve into the subjest below.
As mentioned earlier you can benefit from having a CRM designed to make the life of sales people easier. The reason is that the leads created with your marketing efforts will be stored in the contacts database and all the interactions of your lead would be recorded from that moment on. Your sale people who use HubSpot CRM (or better, HubSpot Sales) wouldn't need to crunch the key of their keyboard inserting data into the CRM but in fact, they see the data already registered in the database and add their notes and logs to the mix. They can send emails and make calls directly from the tool, set up personalized email templates to save time once contacting prospects and create deal and move the deal through the sales pipeline.
To ease up the process for the sales department, the CRM of HubSpot could be integrated with your google and outlook account so you see the CRM data on the side of your email client as well as get notifications on their browser.
The integrations with HubSpot are infinite (remember I told you about the APIs?). There are a handful of pretty handy integrations already built into HubSpot such those with Salesforce.com, Survey Monkey, Eventbrite, Gotomeeting and so on, and given it is API's comprehensiveness any system integrator such as our expert team in Extra can develop custom integrations with almost any application that might need to use the data.
HubSpot promotes the culture of educating the customer and they obviously do it themselves better than everyone. HubSpot blog has over 300,000 subscribers and they write for their customers, partners and any sales person and marketer who is looking for a good read to learn a thing or two from. HubSpot academy is also a great source of knowledge, using which you can learn the methodologies, the ways to use the software and the best practices from highly qualified trainer and university professors.
Further on once using the platform you can't help but notice the floating help button in the right bottom corner, through which you can open a ticket and request technical assistance. You can request to be called that takes places within a few hours or submit your request via email where you usually get a response within the same day.


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The rendering of the Israel hieroglyphs that appears in my novel. The two kneeling figures signify a people or tribe, and the other symbols were read by Petrie's philologist Wilhelm Spiegelberg as I.si.ri.ar.
Flinders Petrie in 1900, soon after the discovery. Oil on canvas by George Frederick Watts. National Portrait Gallery, London, 3959.
My novel PYRAMID features the group of hieroglyphs shown above as an illustration dividing the Parts of the text. They're not just decorative – they're among the most famous hieroglyphs ever discovered in Egypt, a find that set the world alight at the very end of the Victorian era and gave scholars of the Old Testament something tangible to put alongside the Biblical narrative. In my novel, fictional Egyptologist Maurice Hiebermeyer discovers the hieroglyphs again in another context that makes their association with the Biblical Exodus indisputable, but the story of their real-life discovery almost 120 years ago is no less exciting and is one of the key moments of Egyptology, as significant for many as the discovery a generation later of Tutankhamun's tomb.
Petrie' original plan from his 1897 report Six Temples at Thebes showing the Temple of Merenptah at the bottom.
But the greatest find, in one corner of the forecourt, was a stele over ten feet high in the same black basalt as the statues, toppled forward from its original position against the wall. The rear face – the side facing upwards when it was excavated – contained an inscription of Amenhotep III, showing that it too had been reused from the temple of the pharaoh who had ruled some two centuries previously.
The photograph of the Merenptah Stele in Petrie's 1897 report, showing the difficulty of reading the hieroglyphs on the rough surface. Height: 3.2 m (currently in the Cairo Museum).
Meriamen, sun of Ra Merenptah-Hetephermaat.
It was Petrie who had first suggested over dinner that evening that the word I.si.ri.ar should be translated as 'Israel'. 'Won't the reverends be pleased,' he is said to have remarked. The find hit the headlines around the world, and to this day the Merenptah stele remains the sole reference from Egypt of the 2nd millennium BC widely believed by scholars to refer to the Israelites of the Old Testament.
You can see Petrie's full original report, Six Temples at Thebes. 1896. With a chapter by William Spiegelberg, Ph.D., of Strassburg University (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1897), including all of the illustrations, by clicking here. The Wikipedia entry on the Stele of Merenptah discusses details of the inscription and the debate that exists among some scholars over the translation and interpretation. Both the statue of Merenptah and the Stele can be seen today in the Cairo Museum.
The final lines of the Merenptah inscription, showing the I.si.ri.ar hieroglyphs in the middle line just right of centre. It's a mirror image because this is a depiction from the 1897 report of the 'squeeze' taken by Petrie shortly after the stele was uncovered.


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Home Entertainment HBO show success drives Chernobyl tourism boom
HBO show success drives Chernobyl tourism boom
on: June 04, 2019 In: Entertainment
CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (Reuters) – The success of a U.S. television miniseries examining the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl has driven up the number of tourists wanting to see the plant and the ghostly abandoned town that neighbors it for themselves.
One Chernobyl tour agency reported a 40% rise in trip bookings since the series, made by HBO, began in May and which has attracted outstanding reviews.
English-language tours usually cost around $100 per person.
Last April marked the 33rd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster in then-Soviet Ukraine, caused by a botched safety test in the fourth reactor of the atomic plant that sent clouds of nuclear material across much of Europe.
The HBO miniseries depicts the explosion's aftermath, the vast clean-up operation and the subsequent inquiry.
The area around the plant retains the feel of a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where stray dogs roam and vegetation encroaches into windowless, abandoned buildings strewn with rubble.
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The central tower of the cathedral was topped with a spire, taking the total height to a reputed 525 feet (160 meters), making it the world's tallest building until the spire collapsed during a storm in 1549.
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Lincoln boomed during the industrial revolution and began to excel in the engineering industry, in particular through the production of air engines and tanks.
In 1916 the first-ever tanks were designed and built-in Lincoln, giving the city the nicknamed 'Tank Town'. These machines were paraded through the city before going to war and significantly shortened the First World War, preventing many more casualties.
Lincoln was also a center for the aviation industry with 1 in 14 WWI aircraft being produced in the city. Later, the county became known as Bomber County with a large number of RAF bases running on the flat countryside.
Into the 21st century, Lincoln is home to one of the UK's fastest-growing modern universities, is still a world leader in the engineering industry, with almost 2000 years of historical past to explore.
Lincoln developed from the Roman town of Lindum Colonia, which developed from an Iron Age settlement. Lincoln's major landmarks are Lincoln Cathedral, a famous example of English Gothic architecture, and Lincoln Castle, an 11th-century Norman castle.
The city is also home to the University of Lincoln and Bishop Grosseteste University. See Lincoln City F.C. for Lincoln City Football Club.
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4 Malaysian Female Artists To Watch
Words by Koyyi Chin
Cover From left: A commissioned piece by Erica Eng; 'The Hypnotiser' by Fadilah Karim; a close-up of 'Stalking Neighbour's Cat From Balcony' by Venice Foo; 'Forces' by Mulaika Nordin
These up-and-coming artists talk about what it means to create in the current climate, navigating uncertainties that come with the global pandemic, and rapid digitisation
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1. Venice Foo
Hong Kong Scenery Piece (Photo: Venice Foo
'After Rain' installation art (Photo: Venice Foo)
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Based in Sabah, Venice Foo is a self- taught mural artist who had taken to needlework after realising her knack for the medium. And while the idyllic landscapes of Sabah is one of the artist's key inspirations, Foo experiments with the tools she has on-hand, and even crocheted a large rainbow-inspired yarn installation called After Rain for an exhibition last July. The art symbolised her hope for beautiful things to come after enduring the pandemic.
The artist is currently working on her next yarn installation as well as her first solo exhibition.
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Being a full-time artist in the digital age is a double-edged sword. On one hand, it pushes me to be thoughtful while curating and planning my creative process. On the other hand, I question myself and feel a certain pressure to consistently deliver work I personally deem 'good enough'. Truthfully, it can kill my joy in creating but I try my best to maintain a balance, and enjoy the process as much as I can.
— Venice Foo
2. Fadilah Karim
Photo: Fadilah Karim
'The Lonesome Painter' by Fadilah Karim
'The Hypnotiser' by Fadilah Karim
'Ayah 33: Ayah 53' by Fadilah Karim
Showcasing her 10-year journey as an artist, from a young woman to a mother, Fadilah Karim's A Decade 2010–2020 exhibition featured over 50 of her works and an additional 90 from her catalogue raisonné. The muted, earthy tones of each painting are a sombre reminder, or a gentle glimpse, into the artist's psyche.
Read also: Sarawakian Artist Anniketyni Madian Sculpts Wood Into Stunning Works Of Art
Today, we're pretty much forced into a situation where we feel the need to keep pace with whatever's going on out there. And while I hope to have my work physically displayed, I think there's potential in virtual exhibitions. It gives a platform for both artists as well as galleries to be more active in the digital space, and perhaps fill the technological gaps that are sorely needed when it comes to the creative industry.
— Fadilah Karim
3. Mulaika Nordin
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'Forces' by Mulaika Nordin
The 17-year-old made headlines last year as the youngest Malaysian artist to have a solo exhibition at the National Art Gallery. Centred around her personal growth, A Thousand Days of Change is Mulaika's first-ever exhibition, which includes 40 of her best abstract expressionism works from 2016 to 2018. And while she's pivoted to showcasing her work on her own website, the artist, at the time of our interview, was also working on finishing her studies in high school as the pandemic had all but delayed her finals.
While (the screen) will never replace the experience of seeing artworks in person, online exhibitions are necessary for the time being, especially for people who want to catch up with the latest works. It's also the perfect platform for both local and international creatives alike to support one another.
— Mulaika Nordin
4. Erica Eng
A commissioned piece by Erica Eng
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Twenty-two-year-old Erica Eng is the first Malaysian to win an Eisner Award for her debut webcomic, Fried Rice, which was also nominated for Digital Book of the Year at the 2020 Harvey Awards. As a storyteller, she loves to tell stories close to home and Fried Rice centres around a small-town girl from Batu Pahat and her effort to apply to study at an art college overseas—a story not unlike her creator's.
Related: Eisner Award-Winning Cartoonist Sonny Liew On The Role Of Comics Today
To be honest, there are times where I do feel like I have to keep up the pace when it comes to digital content creation. Who would want to read my five-page comic when there's a new Netflix series every week? Plus, I consider myself a slow worker. Not terribly slow, but slow enough to feel like I'm not keeping up the pace. But I'd rather spend time crafting something worthwhile and I don't regret not working on the weekends. So while it can be tempting to succumb to the pressure to perform, I try not to do so.
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Markéta Irglova est une musicienne tchèque née le  à Valašské Meziříčí. .

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En 2006, elle enregistre un album avec Glen Hansard sous le nom de groupe The Swell Season et joue le rôle d'une jeune mère immigrée dans le film irlandais Once (réalisé par John Carney) avec Glen Hansard. La chanson qu'elle et Glen ont écrite pour le film, Falling Slowly, a remporté l'oscar 2007 de la meilleure chanson originale. Elle a résidé à Dublin entre 2008 et 2010, et . Elle passe une partie de l'été dans le Limousin auprès de sa famille tchèque qui a migré dans cette région en 2003.

En 2009, Marketa sort un deuxième album avec The Swell Season : Strict Joy.

En 2011, elle sort son premier album solo, Anar.

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Musicienne tchèque
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Molly C. McNamara '16 dribbles the ball down field during MIT's game against Smith College on Saturday. Smith took a 1-0 lead into halftime, but staunch defending and two goals by Emily Penn '18 in the second half were enough for MIT to secure a 2-1 victory.
Molly C. McNamara '16 dribbles the ball down field during MIT's game against Smith College on Saturday. Smith took a 1-0 lead into halftime, but staunch defending and two goals by Emily Penn '18 in the second half were enough for MIT to secure a 2-1 victory. alexander c. bost—The Tech


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12 NOON WEE GREEN CINEMA TENT
LANDFILL HARMONIC (84 mins, NC-age advice-PG, 2015)
Landfill harmonic follows the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a Paraguayan musical youth group of kids that live next to one of South America's largest landfills. This unlikely orchestra plays music from instruments made entirely out of rubbish from the landfill. When their story goes viral on You Tube, the orchestra is catapulted into the global spotlight and they must navigate this new world of arenas and sold out concerts. However, when a natural disaster devastates their community, the orchestra provides a source of hope for the town. The film is a testament to the transformative power of music and the resilience of the human spirit. Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCjbd21fYV8
FROM 1PM LUNCH FROM UNITY WORLD CAFE & FOOD BANK
Following the film there will be a short performance from local orchestra BIG NOISE GOVANHILL formed by children in the Govanhill area.
2-5PM OUTSIDE AREA, POLLOKSHIELDS PLAYHOUSE
Inspired by LANDFILL HARMONIC RAGS TO RICHES will run a special upcycling workshop -learn how to MAKE YOUR OWN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT from thrown away objects! No experience necessary, all ages and capabilities catered for.
Rags to Riches is an award winning upcycling project tackling post-consumer waste creatively and effectively whilst engaging with members of the community who wish to learn new skills, reduce the impact on and improve the environment, and improve wellbeing
Come meet local organic food and urban gardening organisations to find out more about their work. In attendance will be Hidden Gardens at Tramway, Harvest Co-op, South Seeds, Urban Roots and Waste Not Want Not will decamp from their normal Sunday afternoon slot at Kinning Park Complex to come to Wee Green Cinema.
http://www.harvestco-op.com
http://southseeds.org
http://www.urbanroots.org.uk
2-4 PM POLLYWOOD SCREENINGS, SHIPPING CONTAINER
Pollywood are screening the following short film programmes in the shipping container on the hour between 2pm and 4pm:
2 PM Family Friendly Eco Shorts (N/C-age advice U) – A selection of family friendly films looking at environmental issues. The films:
Little Pumpkin Feeds the World
Our Oceans
The Ballad of Holland Island House
My Strange Grandfather
3 PM Community Food & Growing Shorts (N/C-age advice PG) – from Drumchapel to Detroit via Pollokshields a medley of tasty treats, about the importance of communities growing, producing and sharing food, to get your teeth in to. The films:
South Seeds Film
The Making of Flat Pack Meals
Mr Shafiq, Albert Drive Project
3 Acres in Detroit
4PM WEE GREEN CINEMA TENT
CAN YOU DIG THIS (80mins, N/C-age advice PG, 2015)
South Los Angeles. What comes to mind is gangs and drugs, not beautiful gardens. As part of an urban gardening movement taking root in South LA, people are planting flowers and vegetables to transform their neighborhoods. Calling for people to put down their guns and pick up their shovels, these "gangster gardeners" are creating an oasis in the middle of one of the most notoriously dangerous places in America. CAN YOU DIG THIS follows the inspirational journeys of four unlikely gardeners, discovering what happens when they put their hands in the soil. Watch the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/129924807
FROM 6PM EVENING FOOD: CURRY FOR SALE FROM JALDIKATESSEN
6.30 PM WEE GREEN CINEMA TENT
JUST EAT IT: A FOOD WASTE STORY (75mins, N/C-age advice PG, 2015)
Where is your food going? Filmmakers and food lovers Jen and Grant dive into the issue of food waste from farm, through retail, all the way to the back of their own fridge. After catching a glimpse of the billions of dollars of good food that is tossed each year in North America, they pledge to quit grocery shopping and survive only on discarded food. What they find is truly shocking. Variety called JUST EAT IT "hugely entertaining, will leave audiences gobsmacked" Watch the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/88023628
Wee Green Cinema Programme-Saturday 2 July, 2016
11.30AM WEE GREEN CINEMA TENT
WALL-E (95mins, U, 2008)
WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-class) is the last robot left on Earth, 700 years in the future. WALL-E spends his days tidying up the planet, one piece of rubbish at a time, until he finds a green plant sprouting up from the ground which leads him to meet another robot EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator). WALL-E is both a beautiful and enjoyable love story from Disney PIXAR animation and a powerful warning about the impact of human consumption on the environment, for kids and adults alike. Watch trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alIq_wG9FNk
FROM 1PM LUNCH FROM UNITY CAFE & FOOD BANK
Come meet local cycling organisations to find out more about how you and your kids can get on your bikes!
Pollokshields based Soul Riders will be along to talk about what they are up to at their bike workshop and to provide Dr Bike services. They will also lead a bike ride around the local area after the screening of WADJDA (film at 4pm, bike ride at 5.45pm)
https://www.facebook.com/SoulRiders-Scotland-264169043702850/?ref=hlhttps://twitter.com/soulriderscot
Play on Pedals is a project supported by players of People's Postcode Lottery, getting preschool children across Glasgow cycling before they start school.
Play on Pedals will giving parents and guardians information and also offering a free kids bike check over.
https://playonpedals.com
Pollywood Community Cinema are screening the following short film programmes in the shipping container on the hour between 1pm and 4pm:
1 PM Family Friendly Cycling Shorts (N/C-age advice U) –a selection of family friendly animations including a cycling elephant, an old bike and lots more…. The films:
The Elephant and the Bike
Old Bike
Bike Sounds
Evolution of Bike
2 PM Cycling Shorts (N/C-age advice PG) – a collection of short documentaries about cycling from around the world exploring how cycling groups and projects are improving people's live and helping to build communities. The films:
For the Love of Cycling
Fixed on Fixed
True Wheel
3 PM Community Shorts (N/C-age advice PG) – a programme of films looking at how we understand everyday kindness, what's important about knowing our neighbours and how strong communities are built. The films:
Flowers & Floorboards
Albert Drive Project Trailer
WADJDA (93 mins, PG, 2014)
Wadjda is an 11-year-old Saudi girl who dreams of owning the beautiful green green bicycle that she passes in a shop every day on her way to school. She wants to beat her best friend Abudullah in a bike race but her family and society all say that bikes are not for girls…WADJDA was the first feature film every shot in Saudia Arabia, a country where cinemas are banned, and directed by Haifaa Al –Manour, Saudi's first female director. Nominated for a Best Foreign Film BAFTA in 2014 and described by Indiewire as "unmissable" and by Mark Kermode as "a terrific film…you sit there watching it with a smile on your face." Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3koigluYOH0
5.45PM BIKE RIDE
Followed WADJDA, we will continue to celebrate cycling with a bike ride lead and guided by local cycling organization Soul Riders- explore the Southside by bike! Approx. Duration: 1 hour. No experience of cycling necessary, all abilities and ages welcome.
7.30PM WEE GREEN CINEMA TENT
YOU'VE BEEN TRUMPED (PG 15-100 mins)
In this David and Goliath story for the 21st century, a group of proud Scottish homeowners take on Donald Trump. At stake is one of Britain's very last stretches of wilderness. After the Scottish Government overturns its own environmental laws to give Trump the green light, local residents make their last stand against the golf course in the face of police harassment, constant legal threats and interruption of their water and electricity. Director Anthony Baxter himself makes international news after being thrown in jail. For Trump, the golf course is just another deal, with a possible billion-dollar payoff, for the residents, it represents the destruction of a globally unique landscape that has been the backdrop of their lives. A film just a relevant now as when it was first released in 2012. Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjAIKgOOc8A
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Local Pick: Restless Natives (1985)
Ruth Thomas: [hearing chanting] What's that?
Dr. Moreau: The natives, they have a curious ceremony. Mr. Parker has witnessed it.
Ruth Thomas: Tell us about it, Edward.
Edward Parker: Oh, it's… it's nothing.
Dr. Moreau: They are restless tonight.
Island of Lost Souls, 1933
A restless native is a peculiar character, a trope left behind from the days of 19th century colonialism, he is typically accompanied by tribal drumming, shamanistic chanting, and highly suspect, irrational behaviours. A year after the referendum, it is perhaps clearer than ever that this colonial subject isn't just restricted to 'deepest, darkest Africa', he might also don a kilt and drink Tennent's.
The two protagonists of Michael Hoffman's 1985 comedy, like their African predecessors written in the imagination of khaki-clad missionaries, wear scary masks and terrorise invading tourists. Modern highwaymen, they capture the (American) enemy, and in doing so capture local favour – as an angry young Scot, it's hard not to savour the blundering oppressor's comeuppance. Restless Natives mines the rage of any local who has tried to navigate the Royal Mile during Fringe season.
Ronnie and Will live in Scotland: The Socialist Utopia, where their conscience pangs more for wasting the taxpayer's hard earned keep than for the robbery of innocent tourists: its Rob Roy meets Robin Hood set against the backdrop of high Thatcherism and the rolling Munros of the Highlands.
Released in the same year as The Breakfast Club and The Goonies, Restless Natives is a sharp comedy that finds itself commenting on the discontent of the Scottish youth in sharp relief against the starry-eyed American cinema of the time. Somewhere in between Gregory's Girl and In Bruges, Hoffman's film is a touching black comedy that celebrates Scottish adolescence, warts and all.
There's beautiful scenery, young love, armed robbery, bad haircuts, and a decapitated Maggie Thatcher; what more could you want?
Watch the trailer here :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM9rUC18JFs
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Local Pick: The Angels' Share (2012)
One of Ken Loach's most recent films, The Angels' Share offers great one-liners with a biting hit of reality. We follow the protagonist Robbie as he tries to stay on the right side of the tracks for the sake of his partner and newborn son. He finds himself attempting to avoid old enemies, before falling in with a bunch of fairly harmless miscreants to pull off a daring and slightly ridiculous heist.
I was enchanted by The Angels' Share from the first watch, even from the opening scene. In one of the most memorable, and certainly one of my favourite openings to a film, a drunkard in a tracksuit with a bottle of Buckie stumbles around on the railway tracks, with the stationmaster agitating over the tannoy, trying to get him out of the way of the train. This introduces the first of the unlikely group of leads in this adventurous romp.
They all meet doing community service for their various crimes, and when rewarded by their supervisor, Harry, with a trip to a distillery, they are inspired to hatch a plan to steal a rare, expensive whisky. It feels cheap, too obvious, to compare it to The Full Monty, but this is an underdog tale in the same vein but much wittier and sharper, set to a background of on-going Glaswegian family feuds. It balances humour, reality and poignancy very well, with a bit of adventure too. It's not all plain sailing as they set off for the highlands, four Glaswegians camping out for their whisky, and hatching plans to break in with shamefaced innocence and blagging; but you are desperately keen for them to succeed.
There's no sugar-coating either from Loach in his representation of the violent and difficult world in which the group live. Robbie meets a young man he'd assaulted, the crime for which he is serving his community service, and we see in painful detail his violence and him trying to come to terms with his actions and their after-effects.
The whisky talk is good too; I'm a very ignorant whisky lover, and felt at home watching the group sampling the miniatures stolen from the distillery ("You smell the peat?" "Who the fuck is Pete?"). Robbie is discovered to have a good nose for whisky and thus everything starts to fall into place for him and his young family. The film celebrates aspects of Scotland, with beautiful rolling landscapes, good whisky, kilt jokes, filthy humour, but avoids being too saccharine with its naturalistic dialogue (many of the leads are non-professional actors) and the real struggle of Robbie to keep free of what seems to be an inevitable life of crime. Yeah, it closes with 500 Miles too.
I'm not Glaswegian, but have adopted the city as mine and am filled with unabashed joy for Scotland when I watch this film. The title comes from the so-named minute portion of whisky that evaporates in the cask. I like the Robin Hood feel to the film; they take their Angels' Share. You can't condemn them as criminals, just fans after a little adventure who take their part fair and square, and reward those who helped them along their way. It's one of those films where you really, really, want to read that it is based on a true story. Alas no.
Trip to a distillery with some empty Irn Bru bottles, anyone?
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Local Pick: The Wicker Man (1973)
Set on the fictitious Scottish island of "Summerisle", The Wicker Man follows Edward Woodward as the pious police Sergeant Howie, visiting from the mainland to investigate the disappearance of a local girl. To Howie's shock, he discovers the local population, who still observe ancient Pagan rites and rituals, are unwilling to assist in his investigation, and instead deny the missing girl's very existent.
Howie's disgust grows as he witnesses more and more of the strange attitude and behaviour of the residents, from frog-eating children, to naked dancing around standing stones, and to fire worship. His faith and vow of abstinence is tested by the temptation of Britt Ekland, in one scene found undulating against her bedroom wall in the nude. Beautifully played by Woodward, we see Howie's moral stance against their unchristian practices grows into an intense hatred. His mistrust and suspicion intensifies as he observes the under-stated subservience of the population to the eccentric but charming Lord Summerisle (a titanic performance by recently deceased horror icon, Christopher Lee), and Howie feels a desperate need to solve this mystery with an increasing sense of urgency as the island preparations for the upcoming May Day festival menacingly loom.
The film is chilling, not only in the bold imagery (for example, the ritualistic donning of dead-eyed animal masks) but also in the tension of Anthony Schaffer's screenplay, which so convincingly portrays this secret world. The audience, like Howie, is plunged into this mysterious community and is given no surety with which to understand or predict what might come next, nor what depths of depravity are already occurring out of sight.
What finally does occur is surely one of the most terrifying and memorable climaxes in cinematic history…but I won't spoil it.
Robin Hardy's 1973 The Wicker Man is a bona fide classic of the horror/suspense genre. Largely ignored in on its initial release due to studio edits and a limited screenings, it has gathered a growing "cult" following and inspired an annual Scottish alternative music festival (not to mention spawning the infamous 2006 remake starring Nicholas Cage, which singlehandedly redefined human and bee interaction for the screen). I for one would love to see this eerie Scottish classic on the big screen, vote for The Wicker Man in the Southside Film Festival Local Pick…."You've got to keep your appointment with The Wicker Man."
by Colin McLaughlin
Watch the trailer for The Wicker man here:
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Local Pick: Under the Skin (2013)
Jonathan Glazer's third film, Under the Skin, follows Scarlett Johansson as an unearthly creature disguised as nameless woman who prowls the streets of Glasgow, luring male victims into her lair to be swallowed into pools of black viscous matter. The film opens with a Kubrickian composition of creation: a pinhole of light that expands into a celestial and planetary crescendo, before transforming into an eye, blinking and seeing for the first time. Perception is rendered critical here, and Glazer works to create a film that foregrounds a strikingly unemotional gaze.
The film strips the plot of Michel Faber's debut novel back to an almost wordless dance between Johansson's stalking predator and her unwitting victims. It is dominated by silences that render the scenes otherworldly to the viewer, and Johansson and her motorbike riding minder seem to communicate without language. At the inception of Johansson's human form in the opening scene, we hear her finding her voice through repeated nasal articulations. Glazer is careful to ensure she is not invested with a kind of infant-like curiosity here, but rather voices as if testing an instrument. When Johansson does speak in her clipped yet regionless English accent, her voice is as much an alien presence in the buzz of the thick Glaswegian dialect as is her physicality. She coyly asks her victims, 'Do you think I'm pretty?' and the answer is always fatally affirmative.
Under the Skin plays with the incongruity of Johansson as sex symbol and movie star suddenly hanging around Sauchiehall Street at night, and uses this consciously to construct an unsentimental strangeness. It is bleak and bold in its treatment of the frame as an objective lens, the emotionless eye of Johansson as dangerous seductress. It is through this detachment that the film achieves it goal of creating a world that is acutely depersonalized. My own reaction after viewing the film in the cinema was one of environmental bewilderment; on the walk home, everything that had seemed commonplace was suddenly transmogrified into oddity.
This evisceration of the familiar is bolstered and cemented by Johansson's remarkable performance. She is supremely blank – all surface, and reactive only in minutia, a dearth where her personality should be. When coupled with the astonishing and haunting score composed by Mica Levi who uses violins to conjure up and cloak the film in an unsettling and eerie tonal shroud, Johansson has never seemed more conflictingly malevolent yet vulnerable.
The scenes in which Johansson ensnares her victims in her lair, silently siren-like with her nude body, become as reverse-births, the men floating in suspended animation in a kind of amniotic fluid that destroys rather than creates. Amongst this complex thematic framework, the film balances the juxtaposition of the fantastic with the mundane. When placed alongside each other, the two generic and tonal aspects of the film – social realism vs. futuristic science fiction – initially seem incompatible. But instead the contrast works with startling success by having the effect of amplifying one another.
While much of the film's first half is concerned with this cycle of hunt-lure-kill, as it moves forward we realize at its heart it is about the acquisition of empathy. We gradually witness Johansson's character begin to develop morality, and an encounter with a man suffering from neurofibromatosis catalyses her into an existential crisis as she is confronted with an urge to be benevolent. Much like Birth, Glazer's misunderstood 2004 sophomoric effort, Under the Skin is a film that attempts to bridge the gap between big ontological and philosophical questions about the nature of existence and the definition of humanity, and as Johansson replaces the urban grit for bleak moors and forests, the film dares to ask at what point does a person become human.
Since it premiered in 2013, and as the buzz around it has increased and abated over the past few years, it has drawn its fair share of detractors as well as admirers. I think part of Under the Skin's divisiveness lies somewhere in its attempt to broach these broad questions of what defines a human through a scheme of juxtaposing the familiar with the uncanny. Glazer doesn't create a cinematic space that attempts to answer these questions for the viewer, but rather purposely removes explanation from all aspects (this includes denying the comfort of a clearly stated motivation for Johansson's culling of lusty men). This is a film that is fundamentally about atmosphere, and Glazer invokes highland mist and deserted high-rises as visual metaphors for the film's interest in obscurity and uncertainty. Definitely, Under the Skin resists ease, but it will simultaneously draw you in to its erotic and murky blackness.
by Ryan McNab
Watch the trailer for this film here:
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Local Pick: Ratcatcher (1999)
Painting a bleak picture of outdated housing estates in Glasgow in the 1970's, Ratcatcher follows the twelve-year-old James after the drowning of his friend Ryan, an incident in which James seems to be more involved than anyone has noticed. The bin men are on strike and the tenants gradually being moved to better housing, leaving behind the decrepit rat-infested tower blocks. Slowly the world around James changes, as his family wait to be moved on. He finds solace in rare glimpses of nature, as well as his companions; an older girl, Margaret, passive receiver of abuse from the local gang, and younger boy Kenny, steadily losing his young innocence and compassion, in loosely connected scenes showing the lives of those habiting the uninhabitable. It might be the 1970's, but it's not a million miles away from the Victorian era, with only outside toilets and beds shared between three in this examination of an almost unbelievable but true social housing policy.
Despite the perpetual depictions of poverty in the dank, grey, high-rise world of the housing estate, I found the film oddly beautiful. Ramsey's film is carefully composed around shots teetering on the edge of long, strange silences, contrasted with a gentle humour that creates an eerie, sometimes uncomfortable watch. Opening by a canal, where the young of the estate return throughout the film, nature works its way into the cracks of the inner-city world. The first glimpse of real colour and light comes late to the film, when James escapes on the bus to a corn field, and finally there is blue sky. Children play with the rats that their parents try to escape from, and are fascinated by the lice that inhabit their hair. This might be a portrayal of incredibly difficult living conditions that are far more recent than seems feasible, but it also shows childhood, growing up, and coping with situations you are too young to deal with.
I love the unexpectedly surreal aspects: a pet mouse floating away on a helium balloon; Margaret using one of the many uncollected bin bags as a cushion to enjoy her jam sandwich, enjoying the quiet in this peaceful moment she has found. This occasional playfulness, whilst simultaneously dealing with difficult subjects, is what sets the film away from what it could have been in the hands of a lesser director: a straight depiction of an unkind world through which James leads us. He visits new houses, waiting to be inhabited, their furnishings still covered in plastic sheeting. He tries out the new shiny baths, the shining porcelain toilet not yet plumbed in, into which he joyfully pisses, only to see a puddle slowly appear underneath. This gentle, quiet, creeping humour remains throughout the film, sweetening the toughness, and reminding us that it is just normal life, a boy's adventures, being shown. And it is also tough. Violence, death, drowning and discontent are inescapable, and in several scenes you really feel like you're waiting for the worst to happen. This film strikes me as one of the most enjoyably uneasy films to watch, as you are brought out of prolonged calmness with sudden loud noises or shouts.
I watch this film as a stranger, an outsider not just to this world but also to much of Glasgow; to those who remember the housing estates of the seventies it must be an entirely different experience. The characters seem to watch on too, looking through windows, observing their world, and we see their desire to escape, as well as their children's. The film steers clear of sentimentality, but shows subtle, everyday moments of happiness. This sometimes bizarre and unexpected mix is what charmed me. Slightly dreamlike, we see James' world, and through this meditation on life in these estates, a representation of what was a normal world for many.
by Henrietta Eagle Wilsher
Watch the film's trailer here:
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Call for FOH Volunteers for Comedy Film Screenings
Southside Film is a volunteer run organisation that hosts an annual film festival and regular film screenings and events throughout the year. We are looking for new FOH volunteers for our late night comedy film screenings at Govanhill Baths over two weekends in March, part of Glasgow Comedy Festival.
Screening details:
Fri 13 March: American: The Bill Hicks Story (15)
Sat 14 March: Witnail & I (15)
Fri 20 March: In the Loop (15)
Sat 21 March: Best in Show (12)
All screenings are in Govanhill Baths on 99 Calder St, Govanhill, Southside Glasgow, G42 7RA.
All screenings start at 10pm and volunteer shifts will be from 9pm to midnight. Cost of taxis home/travel expenses will be covered.
Volunteers on any one shift get free entry to all other screenings over the two weekends in March and opportunity to get involved in future Southside Film screenings and activities.
We are looking for friendly and helpful FOH volunteers who will be able to check and take tickets, direct people into the screenings, help with any other enquires from the audience and tidy up the screening space after screenings.
Experience in a previous customer service role, paid or voluntary, is desirable. Interest in cinema and filmmaking is also desirable for this role. Knowledge of Govanhill Baths and the Southside of Glasgow is preferable but not essential. Volunteers should be 18 years old or over.
Please send your CV along with a note of your available dates to volunteer to Karen O'Hare at southsidefilmfest@gmail.com by 5pm on Tuesday 3 March.
Call for Volunteers- Treasurer & Secretary
Southside Film is looking for new volunteers in the key roles of Treasurer & Secretary
Southside Film is dedicated to bringing film back to Southside Glasgow, an area with no local cinema and, until Southside Film started in May 2011, no regular film screenings or events.
We plan to run the film festival in October 2015 and to continue to provide screenings and film events throughout 2015. We are looking for new volunteers to fill the key roles of Secretary and Treasurer. Are you interested in joining us?
Role description: Treasurer
Managing the box office at screenings/events which includes:
– ordering and collecting printed tickets or creating ticket info for online sales prior to screenings;
– organising floats for screenings/events and managing box office sales at screenings/events;
– banking cash after screenings
– submitting box office figures to distributors.
Coordinating, checking and processing volunteer expense claims.
Monitoring the bank account and acting as signature on the bank account.
Responsible for paying invoices on time and liasing with film distributors and filmmakers re payments.
Reporting on finances at Southside Film monthly meetings including producing an income/ ticket reconciliation per screening and producing an annual financial report.
Produce final company accounts and submit to HMRC annually.
Have a shared responsibility with the company directors for ensuring that CIC paperwork is filed and for the payment of annual company fees and taxes.
Optional company director role.
Role description: Secretary
Organising, preparing agendas for meetings and taking minutes at monthly meetings.
Keeping a true and accurate record of these minutes and circulating the minutes to everyone involved.
Assist with all Southside Film correspondence including email, press and online correspondence.
Overseeing the updating and maintenance of various social media channels and the Southside Film website.
Coordinate the e-newsletter communication – promote, collect and administrate the monthly Mail Chimp e-newsletter to those signed up to the Southside Film mailing list.
Coordinate the design, printing and distribution of flyers and posters for Southside Film year round activity.
Manage the administration of Southside Filmmakers Award entries and award at annual film festival.
Coordinate the evaluation and monitoring of screenings and/or events including producing, distributing and collecting monitoring and evaluation forms and then collating this info into event and annual reports.
Help to source and organise film prints and licenses and liaise with film distributors and filmmakers.
Coordinate the booking of screening venues and liaise with venue contacts.
Volunteering at screenings and/or events.
Have a shared responsibility with company directors for ensuring CIC paperwork is filed and overseeing other company related correspondence.
We expect that the Treasurer and Secretary will have to commit approximately half a day a month to Southside Film activity, to attend monthly two hour meetings in the Southside and to attend screenings and events during the film festival in October 2015 and throughout the year when possible.
Southside Film is volunteer run and operates as a community interest company, investing any profits back into the organisation to provide future free or affordable film screenings, events, workshops and other opportunities.
These roles are voluntary but as per the festival's Volunteer Policy, expenses will be covered.
Find out more about Southside Film here:
http://southsidefilm.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/SouthsideFilmFestival
http://twitter.com/southfilmfest
Please apply by sending your CV and/or web link to Karen O'Hare at southsidefilmfest@gmail.com along with a statement explaining what you bring to the festival and why you want to support Southside Film.
Deadline is 5pm, 17 February, 2015.
Southside Film 2015
First 2015 screenings announced
We have a special sci fi screening on Tues 20th Jan of Death Watch shot in Glasgow in 1979 and starring Harvey Kietel and featuring Southsider Robbie Coltrane in his first film role. Part of BFI Sci-FI, together with O2 bfi.org.uk/scifi Thanks to Film Hub Scotland for their support of this screening.
In February we team up with Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF) to screen Hit So Hard a documentary about Patty Schemel, celebrated drummer in the band Hole, part of LGBT History Month.
In March we continue the music theme with The Possibilities are Endless, the beautiful film about Edwin Collins' recovery but also about the power of music and love.
In April at The Glad Cafe in the run up to Record Store day we are screening Sound it Out, a documentary about the last remaining record store in Teeside.
We also have special late night screenings in The Steamie at Govanhill Baths for Glasgow Comedy Festival. Don't miss cult comedy classic Withnail & I the hilarious mockumentary Best in Show, cutting satire of In the Loop and The Bill Hicks Story about a seriously funny comedian taken too soon from this world.
Advance online ticket sales for all screenings available from http://www.wegottickets.com/southsidefilmfestival
Autumn Film Club screenings
Southside Film Festival Film Club is returning with an exciting autumn season of music films in The Glad Cafe and two very special screenings for Halloween in Pollok House and Pollokshaws Burgh Hall.
Glad Cafe screenings
On Tuesday 9 September we start the season with The Punk Singer, the 2013 documentary about Kathleen Hanna, who rose to international attention as the voice of the riot grrrl movement and was lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre. She became one of the most famously outspoken feminist icons of the era and this film tells us her story through 20 years of archival footage and intimate interviews. This screening will be followed by live music from local punk bank SHARPTOOTH.
On Tuesday 14 October there is a chance to see Pulp: a Film about Life, Death and Supermarkets, a documentary about the enduring career of Sheffield's finest musical export, Pulp, who found fame on the world stage in the 1990's with anthems including 'Common People' and 'Disco 2000'. Directed by Florian Habicht, the band shares their thoughts on just about everything and gives a stunning performance exclusive to the film.
On Tuesday 4 November The Glad Cafe hosts a screening of We Are the Best! Directed by Swedish auteur Lukas Moodysson, We Are the Best! revolves around three girls in 1980's Stockholm who decide to form a punk band – despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.
Finishing The Glad Cafe music season on Tuesday 9 December is a film that needs no introduction: This is Spinal Tap. Rob Reiner's cult mockumentary about the British heavy metal band is interspersed with powerful performances of Tap's mesmerising music and profound lyrics, as the film candidly follows a rock group heading towards crisis. We will endeavour to turn the sound right up to 11!
Halloween screenings
On Friday 31 October there will be a screening of Don't Look Now, Nicolas Roeg's innovative, perception altering modern classic – preceded by a two course Italian-themed dinner with a glass of prosecco. This unique cinema and culinary experience will be held in the decadent surroundings of Pollok House, one of Scotland's grandest Edwardian country homes. Sample a taste of Italy in the award winning Edwardian Kitchen restaurant and enjoy a pre-film drink in the scholarly surroundings of the Pavilion Library overlooking the gardens of the house, before being led through to the Maxwell family Dining Room for the screening of Don't Look Now. Advance booking is essential for this event and is strictly adults only. Full menu online soon. Email any dietary requirements to southsidefilmfest@gmail.com
Following that on Sunday 2 November, Pollokshaws Burgh Hall hosts a screening of The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, the 1927 silent thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With its trick shots, menace and the quivering stare of Ivor Novello, this silent classic ishelped shape the modern-day thriller genre. Accompanied by live music on the mighty Wurlitzer Cinema Organ.
Buy tickets online for all screenings at Brown Paper Tickets
Autumn 2014 Film Club screenings
On Tuesday 9 September we start the season with The Punk Singer, the 2013 documentary about Kathleen Hanna, who rose to national attention as the voice of the riot grrrl movement and was lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre. She became one of the most famously outspoken feminist icons of the era and this film tells us her story through 20 years of archival footage and intimate interviews. This screening will be followed by live music from local punk bank SHARPTOOTH.
On Tuesday 4 November The Glad Cafe hosts a screening of We Are the Best!Directed by Swedish auteur Lukas Moodysson, We Are the Best! revolves around three girls in 1980's Stockholm who decide to form a punk band – despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.
Finishing The Glad Cafe music season on Tuesday 9 December is a film that needs no introduction:This is Spinal Tap. Rob Reiner's cult mockumentary about the British heavy metal band is interspersed with powerful performances of Tap's mesmerising music and profound lyrics, as the film candidly follows a rock group heading towards crisis. We will endeavour to turn the sound right up to 11!
On Friday 31 October there will be a screening of Don't Look Now, Nicolas Roeg's innovative, perception altering modern classic – preceded by a two course Italian-themed dinner with a glass of prosecco. This unique cinema and culinary experience will be held in the decadent surroundings of Pollok House, one of Scotland's grandest Edwardian country homes.
Sample a taste of Italy in the award winning Edwardian Kitchen restaurant and enjoy a pre-film drink in the scholarly surroundings of the Pavilion Library overlooking the gardens of the house, before being led through to the Maxwell family Dining Room for the screening of Don't Look Now.
Advance booking is essential for this event and is strictly adults only. Full menu online soon. Email any dietary requirements to southsidefilmfest@gmail.com
Following that on Sunday 2 November, Pollokshaws Burgh Hall hosts a screening of The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog,the 1927 silent thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With its trick shots, menace and the quivering stare of Ivor Novello, this silent classic is helped shape the modern-day thriller genre. Accompanied by live music on the mighty Wurlitzer Cinema Organ.
Buy tickets online from Brown Paper Tickets for all screenings
Do you want to join Southside Film Festival?
Southside Film Festival was founded in 2011 as a response to the lack of local cinema on the Southside. In 2014, there are plans for a local cinema in Shawlands and a multiplex at Silverburn so the film festival thinks this is a good time to refocus the aims and objectives of the festival.
We are establishing an Advisory Board to help steer the next stage of Southside Film Festival's development and want to hear from anyone that is interested in joining us at this exciting time.
We are particularly are interested in hearing from filmmakers, writers, musicians, artists and other creative practitioners based in the Southside of Glasgow who have a passion for cinema going and film in all its forms.
We are also keen to hear from those with experience in community arts development /fundraising, audience development, journalism and business.
However, do also please get in touch if you just love the Southside and want to support a positive cultural initiative in your community or love film and filmmaking.
We expect that we will have Quarterly Advisory Board Meetings and that board members will be asked to contribute ideas and expertise as appropriate.
The Board positions are voluntary but, as per the festival's Volunteer Policy, expenses will be covered.
NB We are also looking for New Volunteers-Treasurer & Secretary-find out more here
Southside Film Festival is a volunteer run film festival, film club and film event producer which operates as Community Interest Company (SC418100).
Find out more about Southside Film Festival here:
Please apply by sending your CV and web link (if applicable) to southsidefilmfest@gmail.com along with a statement explaining what you bring to the Advisory Board and why you want to support Southside Film Festival.
Deadline is midnight 31st August, 2014.
If you have any questions please email Karen O'Hare on southsidefilmfest@gmail.com.
Call for Volunteers-Treasurer and Secretary
Southside Film Festival was founded in 2011 as a response to the lack of local cinema on the Southside. In 2014, there are plans for a local cinema in Shawlands and a multiplex at Silverburn so the film festival thinks this is a good time to refocus the aims and objectives of the festival. Are you interested in joining us?
We are looking for new volunteers to join the festival to help with the organisational elements of all our activity. In particular we are looking for a new Secretary and a new Treasurer to take up key roles in the film festival organisation.
However, if you are interested in getting involved with the festival in other capacities then do get in touch. We are always keen to support those looking for experience in FOH, marketing, programming and event production.
The amount of time you commit to volunteering is dependent on the role –the Treasurer and Secretary will have to commit approximately half a day a month to festival activity and to attend monthly meetings in the Southside and screenings when possible. For the other volunteers roles, you can give as much time as you are able to supporting film screenings and events, talks and workshops in the Southside.
All positions are voluntary but as per the festival's Volunteer Policy, expenses will be covered.
Please apply by sending your CV and web link (if applicable) to southsidefilmfest@gmail.com along with a statement explaining what you bring to the festival and why you want to support Southside Film Festival. Please indicate if you are applying for the Secretary or Treasurer Role or what other area you would like to get experience in.
Deadline is midnight 31 August, 2014.
If you have any questions please email Karen O'Hare on southsidefilmfest@gmail.com
Call for Advisory Board Members
June 2014 Screenings in The Glad Cafe
We have a busy June ahead-check out our upcoming screenings in The Glad Cafe
Wed 4 June
Bullhead/ Rundskop (124mins, Cert 15, 2012
8pm (doors 7.30pm)
£6/£5 conc -on the door only, no advance sales
A steroid-fueled cattle farmer finds that his decision to do business with the Belgian cattle-hormone mafia could have potentially deadly consequences in this brooding Belgian crime drama that was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2012 Academy Awards.
Flemish actor Matthias Schoenaerts spent two years transforming his slender body into a bulky and brooding figure which Variety called " a career defining, powerfully physical lead performance. "
Also starring Matthias Schoenaerts from Rust and Bone.
Michael R. Roskam's debut feature Bullhead is a harrowing tale of revenge, redemption and fate. Watch the trailer http://vimeo.com/36443234
Indiewire: "stunning in its originality"
The Guardian describes Bullhead as 'rustic noir' & 'Belgian gangster gothic'
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jan/31/bullhead-review
http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2013/feb/01/bullhead-video-review
The film will be preceded by a short film called 'Lekker' directed by Sam Batnik about the Dutch language.
Thurs 5 June -re scheduled Cinemap screening
Southsider shorts (N/C contains some adult content, approx 60mins)
Join us for the re-scheduled Cinemap screening of a diverse range of short films made by Southside filmmakers.
Expect superheroes, local heroes, music fans, pets, strained family relationships and experimental shorts. Q&A with Southside filmmakers following the screening (TBC).
Full film info here: http://southsidefilm.co.uk/film-club/southside-filmmaker-screening-east.html
Tues 17 June
Refugee Week Scotland:
Migration Stories-short films from Scotland, Brazil & Spain
£6/£5 conc/free to asylum seekers and refugees -on the door only, no advance sales
Southside Film Festival & Document International Human Rights Film Festival present three shorts that explore what life is like for immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland, Brazil and Spain.
Bird Man of Red Road (Chris Leslie, 2013, Scotland, 6 mins)
Chris Leslie will be in attendance for a post film Q &A
Diarios de Frontera (Irene Gutierrez Tores, 2013, Spain, 25mins)
Open Arms Closed Doors (Fernada Polacow & Johana Borges, 2013, Brazil, 25mins)
Cinemap 23-25 May 2014
Cinemap: mapping the Southside through film: 23-25 May 2014
After three successful years of running a film festival in May Southside Film Festival is doing something different in May 2014.
Cinemap is inspired by the ALBERT DRIVE project in Pollokshields in 2013 which asked the question 'Who is my Neighbour?' Throughout the year ALBERT DRIVE explored different ways to bring people together in the Pollokshields community and some of the resulting films from this project are screening as part of Cinemap.
Cinemap also includes films that explore the idea of neighbourhood, local and community and work by Southside filmmakers that is not necessarily about those themes, the only connection is that the filmmakers are based locally. We hope you enjoy the resulting diversity of new film work.
Cinemap is not only about bringing people together to watch films though -you can discover new Southside spaces, learn more about the films through the filmmaker Q&As and post film discussions and have fun at all of the associated events. You never know you may even meet your neighbour!
All screenings/events are free.
Cinemap programme:
Friday 23 May
Saturday 24 May
Sunday 25 May
Cinemap is a partnership project lead by Southside Film Festival with the ALBERT DRIVE project, Art Village, The Glad Cafe, Govanhill Baths, New Victoria Gardens, East Pollokshields Quad, Tramway and filmmakers Abigail Howkins and Basharat Khan. .
Cinemap: mapping the Southside through film 23-25 May 2014
After three successful years of running a film festival in May Southside Film Festival has decided to do something different in May 2014!
Southside Film Festival presents Cinemap, a screening event over the weekend of 23-25 May, 2014 in various Southside locations.
Cinemap is inspired by last year's ALBERT DRIVE project that asked the people of Pollokshields to meet their neighbours through a series of artistic commissions exploring the central question 'who is my neighbour'?
Cinemap will screen a number of ALBERT DRIVE films including work by Basharat Khan and Abigail Howkins which explore the theme of neighbour but also highlight the importance of local, of community and of bringing people together.
Cinemap is looking for more films that explore the wider Southside community and the themes of COMMUNITY and LOCAL. We are looking for films that have imaginative approaches to these themes.
We are also looking for new work made in Southside Glasgow and/or made by Southside filmmakers that has not screened at previous Southside Film Festivals.
We are also inviting filmmakers to submit site specific work that responds to and relate to the Cinemap screening spaces- Shawlands Arcade, The Glad Cafe, Govanhill Baths, New Victoria Gardens and East Pollokshields Quad and The Tramway. What would you screen in a shopping centre, a cafe, a swimming pool, an allotment, a green space in a tenement back court and a multi arts venue?
How to Submit: download a submission form and return to southsidefilmfest@gmail.com along with film
Submission Deadline: (9am, Monday 14 April, 2014)
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 9AM TUES 22 APRIL, 2014
Cinemap is a partnership project lead by Southside Film Festival with the ALBERT DRIVE project, Art Village, The Glad Cafe, Govanhill Baths, New Victoria Gardens, East Pollokshields Quad, The Tramway and filmmakers Abigail Howkins and Basharat Khan.
N.B. We are also looking for new volunteers to help with the Cinemap project. If you are interested please email southsidefilmfest@gmail.com with your CV and availability and tell us how you would like to get involved. Deadline to apply for volunteering is also 9am, Monday 14 April, 2014.
March: Good Vibrations
The Film Club continues at the Glad Cafe on 11 March at 8pm as we screen Good Vibrations, the story of Terri Hooley, the rebellious Belfast punk enthusiast whose record label released the Undertones's Teenage Kicks.
The film will start at 8pm, doors at 7:30pm. Tickets are £6 (£5 for concessions) and are available from The Glad Cafe and Tickets Scotland.
All Film Club screenings are held at The Glad Cafe, 1006a Pollokshaws Road, Shawlands (opposite the five-a-side football pitches).
Synopsis: Terri Hooley is a radical, rebel and music-lover in 1970s Belfast when the bloody conflict known as the Troubles shuts down his city. As all his friends take sides and take up arms, Terri opens a record shop on the most bombed half-mile in Europe and calls it Good Vibrations. Through it he discovers a compelling voice of resistance in the city's nascent underground punk scenes. Galvanising the young musicians into action, he becomes the unlikely leader of a motley band of kids and punks who join him in his mission to create a new community, an alternative Ulster, to bring his city back to life.
Good Vibrations (dir. Lisa Barros D'Sa)
The Glad Cafe
Cert 15, 2013 (102mins)
Tuesday 11 March, 8pm
April: Blue Velvet
The April screening at the Film Club is Blue Velvet, David Lynch's bizarre mystery starring Kyle MacLachlan and Isabella Rossellini.
Synopsis: The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Blue Velvet (dir. David Lynch)
Tuesday 8 April, 8pm
May: Nebraska
The Film Club season ends with a screening of Nebraska, directed by Alexander Payne (Sideways, The Descendants) and starring Bruce Dern and Bob Odenkirk.
Synopsis: After receiving a sweepstakes letter in the mail, a cantankerous father thinks he's struck it rich, and wrangles his son into taking a road trip to claim the fortune. Shot in black and white across four states, Nebraska tells the stories of family life in the heartland of America.
Nebraska (dir. Alexander Payne)
Sunday 11 May, 8pm
February: Annie Hall
The new Film Club season in partnership with The Glad Cafe kicks-off on Tuesday 11 February at 8pm with a screening of Woody Allen's classic romantic comedy Annie Hall starring the director as a typically neurotic television writer and Diane Keaton as his eccentric on-again, off-again girlfriend.
The film will start at 8pm, doors at 7:30pm. Tickets are £6 (£5 for concessions) and are available from The Glad Cafe.
Synopsis: This fictionalised account of the rise and fall of a "nervous romance" between Jewish New York comic Alvy Singer (Allen) and the willowy, Waspy Annie Hall (Diane Keaton) was the high-water mark of Allen's gift for sublimely touching and funny screen comedy. It is a gloriously convincing romance, packed with superb gags. Annie Hall also virtually invented the relationship comedy in both movies and literature; it made possible the now degraded romcom genre, and on TV it spawned Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sex and the City, and Entourage – though none of these have anything like Annie Hall's passionate romantic pain." The Guardian
Annie Hall (dir. Woody Allen)
Cert 15, 1977 (93mins)
Tuesday 11 February 8pm
We're Back: FILM CLUB Spring 2014 is GO!
With January (finally) drawing to a close, we hope you've all just about recovered from the festive period and are getting ready to get properly tore in 2014.
There's no denying that awards season is now in full swing – with Oscar worthy performances flying around all over the shop (whats your bets for 2014?) . However, in the midst of all the movie mayhem, we at the Southside Film Festival have been busy bees planning this season's Film Club selection for screening at The Glad Cafe. After much deliberation & debate, we hope you'll agree that we've came up with a cracker of programme for Spring 2014.
So, without further ado – we are very pleased announce this season's line up in full:
With a pretty eclectic mix of movies on the go – we're sure we've got something for everyone so keep your eyes peeled for further updates, special features & general fun stuff in the near future.
Tickets will be on sale soon, and as ever, will be available online at Tickets Scotland, in person at The Glad Cafe or on the door on the night of the screening.
Cityscapes & Heartbreaks
With December finally upon us, we hope you're all starting to feel festive here in the Southside. We're sure there's plenty a Christmassy movie nights up your sleeve in the coming weeks but we'd like to kick-start all of that for you with our December Film Club screening of In Bruges – Tues 3rd Dec at The Glad Cafe (8pm – doors 7:30pm – Tickets £6/5 conc,)
Hit men Ray & Ken have very different takes on the beautifully preserved Flemish city, but as the two swan around sampling the biers & battling the locals one thing becomes clear – where Brendan Gleeson is super likeable & Colin Farrell pretty as can be, its the city of Bruges itself that's the real star of the show!
That got me thinking, what other films are there where the location becomes a character in itself? Films that couldn't (or at least shouldn't) ever be set anywhere else in the world? Films that when you watch, you end up with a serious case of the wanderlust & find yourself booking mini break before the end credits roll…….
Here's my top picks
I love Scarlett. I LOVE Bill. I love My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus & Mary Chain & I love the whole Coppola clan. But the thing I love most about Lost In Translation? Tokyo! The dazzling cityscapes framed through Charlotte's lonely hotel room window, that sense of awe & wonder you get from Bob's taxi journey, the Karaoke scenes. For all the chemistry & quick witted banter – Tokyo is the main character here and never has a film made me want to travel to city more than this one.
Dont Look Now
OK, so Donald Sutherland & Julie Christie grieving the tragic death of their little daughter on the canals of Venice doesn't particularly intrigue me towards the city. Gone are the romantic notions of gondolas in the moonlight, replaced with chilling paranoia, alienation, grief & guilt……and a wee bit of the occult. The imagery created by the water of the weaving canals is so intense, its impossible to imagine the emotional trauma of this film translating to any other setting. Oh, that water…..I've got the chills!
A Lynchian nightmare of epic proportions, and another on the list that doesn't particularly endear me towards the city in question but all out encapsulates the seedy essence of L.A. The grotesque underbelly of the City of Angels on full display in a fragmented, hallucinatory & nightmarish illusion of a film – "a mournful love poem to all those who have been chewed up & spit out by the Hollywood machine" – Keith Ulhich/Time Out
"He adored New York City. He idolised it all out of proportion
No, make that he romantiscied it all out of proportion.
To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black & white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin" – Woody Allen, Manhattan
Woody Allen, the quintessential New Yorker – you could really pick any of his earlier films here to showcase the Big Apple in all its glory, but its Manhattan that truly is his all out love letter to his home town. Enough said!
What would be your picks here? Amelie's quirky Paris? Scorcese's hard hitting Boston in The Departed, Love Actually's Christmas-time in London? Let us know in the comments below.
Speaking of wonderful cities, all of us at The Southside Film Festival would like to express our heartfelt sympathies to the families & friends of those who tragically lost their lives in Glasgow this weekend at The Clutha Vaults Pub. There have been so many wonderful displays of kindness & compassion by the Glasgow people over the last few days, which just goes to show what an amazing city we really have.
To express our condolences, we would like to advise that we will be donating all box office profits from our screening of In Bruges to an appropriate fund for the families of the bereaved and the pub rebuilding fund once announced. We'll also have donation tins there if people want to donate and will let you know where it all goes. xxx


It's really not hard to provide exceptional service, even though it may seem like it on occasion. Let me tell you about a simple experience that exemplifies nearly every principle of My Service First.
Before I do though, let me set this up. It's the kind of experience to keep in mind – you don't know what brings a customer to you, but you want to capitalize on that opportunity to make that experience a great one.
Now I am not the tallest or biggest person you'll ever meet. I've actually been quite skinny my entire life. So when my wife started going to the gym to lose weight, she challenged me to go to the gym and bulk up. I accepted, and even took on a few sessions with a personal trainer who gave me tips about weight training routines to increase muscle size.
But, it is much harder than it looks.
Time is the investment you need to make to see consistent and overall progress. I have developed a regular routine for getting to the gym and am usually there for an hour to an hour and a half constantly working on selected muscle groups to gain muscle mass. My trainer recommending drinking 1 to 2 protein shakes a day. I could have one 30 minutes before a workout and another 30 minutes after, which helps with water retention in muscles and muscle recovery – good to know right?
I have been curious for some time about all of the products I see on the wall as I walk out of the gym. Usually in the gym, or at least at mine, there is no one available or knowledgeable enough to ask about what products like BCAA Powder, C4, Explode or Serious Mass could potentially do for someone like me, or if they're even products I should consider. Then I realized on the way home that I live right next to a Vitamin Shoppe. What better place to seek answers than from the people there?! So I went.
I'm up early so I get the workout done earlier in the day but I need that little boost of energy without crashing mid-day.
I felt like my energy levels run out fast while working out so I was looking for more endurance.
I don't want to become one of the guys at muscle beach, so I want to stay toned as weight lifting increases.
And lastly I would love to gain cardio endurance by running, because sometimes 15 minutes on the treadmill seems like it will kill me.
I was greeted upon entry by 2 of the 3 working employees, which made me feel very welcome (principle #2 – Acknowledge your customer). Lucky for me, the pre-workout and post workout supplements are right in the front, so I didn't need to go any further into the store.
One of the lady's who greeted me immediately came over to see if I needed assistance (principle #9 – Make sure the experience is easy).
I had only been in the store for a minute and noticed they had far more products to look at than what the gym offered, so I needed a few minutes to browse and kindly let her know. After a few more minutes one of the guys who greeted me came over to ask if I had any questions. By then I had 2 products I was interested in, and gave him my list to see if these were good choices or if I had overlooked another product.
He quickly broke down my list of needs and compared them to the two products I was currently looking at – noting that one he thought fulfilled those needs completely and the other could potentially cause the dreaded afternoon crash. He could have stopped there and taken me to the register to check out, but (principle #7 – Go the Extra Mile), he wanted to show me a product that he currently uses and has enjoyed the results even adding that the flavor is quite good compared to most of the products.
By being friendly to me as a customer, acknowledging me when I came into the store (along with the offer to help), and then a follow-up offer, I felt more comfortable talking to the employees and asking questions and was even willing to sign up for their rewards program. By listening to my needs (principle #4 – Listen to what your customer says) they were better equipped to recommend products and help me make the right purchase, and they thanked me for my business. They made it easy to do business with them!
Since then, I have been back 3 times for various inquiries on products and have received quality customer service each time.
The experience illustrates that My Service First attitude, with nearly every principle in action, can be easy to do and improves your business.


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Le Championnat d'Irlande de football en 1953-195. Les Shamrock Rovers remportent le titre pour la première fois depuis 1939.

Les 12 clubs participants
 Bohemian Football Club
 Cork Athletic Football Club
 Drumcondra Football Club
 Dundalk Football Club
 Evergreen United Football Club
 Limerick Football Club
 St. Patrick's Athletic Football Club
 Shamrock Rovers Football Club
 Shelbourne Football Club
 Sligo Rovers Football Club
 Transport Football Club
 Waterford United Football Club

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My brother and I flew from Singapore to Hong Kong in just a little over 3 hours.
Last time I visited Hong Hong and stayed in town and I took the Airport Express (train). The Airport express costs approx 80HKD per person. But since Disneyland is so close to the airport, my brother and I hopped into a taxi and the fare came up to 120HKD (that's about SGD20).
We had 2 nights at Disney's Hollywood Hotel. Which is one of 2 Hotels at Disneyland. The other Hotel is the Disneyland Hotel but it was already fully booked.
Disney's Hollywood Hotel has a retro + Mickey Mouse theme. It feels like you're blasted back into Hollywood circa the 50s or 60s. In the time of JFK and Marilyn Monroe.
Our room was on the 9th floor. And it had unobstructed views of the hotel grounds and the sea.
The first thing that struck me about this twin room was that it had 2 big beds instead of just 2 single beds. It's a family sized room, perfect for couples with young children.
It has all the comforts and amenities one would expect of a 4Star hotel. From bedroom slippers to hair dryer.
And their toiletrie kit comes in a cute reusable Disney packaging!
In addition to all that, I was surprised to find little bits of cuteness all around my room... like face towels wrapped up to be the Little Green Man.
Both hotels and of course Disneyland Park itself has shops where you can find anything and everything Disney. This is the Toy Story shuttle bus in front of the Disneyland Hotel. The whole place is like one giant utopian resort. You can easily travel between the hotels and Disneyland Park via the free shuttle bus so you never feel limited when it comes to places to eat!
This restaurant is the the Disneyland Hotel. Its set up is truly enchanting. It has glass ceilings and beautiful white pillars. Eating here really makes one feel like they're in a fairy tale land.
The buffet spread is great. You have chinese and western selections, and plenty of fruit and fresh juices.
The pancake and waffles are Mickey Mouse shaped.
I filled my plate with my favourite sausages, bacon and eggs first, and then went back to try the other stuff.
The highlight of having breakfast at the Enchanted Garden has to be meeting the Disney characters. Mickey Mouse, Daisy Duck and Pluto made an appearance when i was having breakfast.
There's no need to rush or queue to see them, they go to every table. I love Pluto, he's so playful!
The next day's breakfast was at Chef Mickey, which is at Disney's Hollywood hotel itself. It was a more casual setting than the Enchanted Garden.
They had a good selection of food including sausages, bacon and eggs, and dim sum but this time I decided to have some Indian curries and popadums instead.
Crystal Lotus is a Chinese restaurant at the Disneyland Hotel. It serves yummy dim sum and Chinese cuisine.
The first dish was a Pomelo Salad with Smoked Duck Breast.
Followed by a Disney Special Dim Sum platter. Cuteness!! There's Little Green Men Pork and Vegetable bun, Three Little Pigs Barbecue Pork Bun and Mickey Mouse seafood glutinous pancake.
Wok-Fried Shrimps, Young Vegetables and Cashews. The shrimps were so plump and delicious. Sweet and Sour Chicken with Peach. I love the sweet and sour tangy taste and the chicken was tender.
Diced Chicken and Preserved Vegetables Fried Rice. By this point, I was already very full.. but I kept eating because it was too tempting!
In the Disneyland Park itself there are many many places to eat too. You have carts selling popcorn, drinks and candy, you have food court styled places, burger places and you also have many themed restaurants.
The Main Street Corner Cafe, as the name suggests, is at the corner of Main Street in the Disneyland park. It is a quaint little bistro that's very busy... ... after looking at their menu, I know why they're so busy! Pastas, steaks, seafood! Yum! Both my brother and I had the Surf & Turf (HKD285) which consisted of a small 5 ounce tenderloin, and half a grilled lobster with holandaise sauce. It was the tastiest lobster I've ever ever ever eaten! For dessert, I shared the Cheesecake Trio with my brother. They were creamy and light. My favourite was the mango cheesecake.
On our last night at Disneyland, we were treated to a special evening at Walt's Cafe, in Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel. Walt's Cafe is exudes an exclusive and posh charm with its warm lighting, dark wood floors and furniture.
The set dinner that we had consisted of 4 courses, starting with a Marinated Scallop and Artichoke Salad with Parmesan Shavings. I love Scallops, this was the first time I was eating it prepared this way. It was very flavourful.
Next was the Porcini Mushroom Soup with Truffle Aroma Cream. Mmmm... there was a strong and rich taste and smell of truffles. The soup was nice and creamy with generous chunks of mushroom in it.
For my main course, I had the Pan Fried Cod Fillet with Miso Crab Roe Sauce and foam of Champagne and Mini Eggplant, Cherry Tomatoes and Pumpkin Puree.
My brother chose a different main course. His was the Slow-Roasted Supreme of Guinea Fowl on a Rosemary Sauce and Red Current Jam with Braised Savoy Cabbage, Almond Potato. I pinched a bit of his food, ohhh, guinea fowl is so succulent!
And for dessert, the Rosemary Almond Apple Tart with Creme Brulee Ice Cream. I love Creme Brulee! So I was delighted to have it as an ice cream flavour. This dessert is definitely for those with a sweet tooth.
A nice relaxing dinner with my brother was the perfect end to our day which was jam packed with adventure and fun in Disneyland.
The next morning, we checked out of our hotel and took the shuttle bus to the MTR station at Disneyland Park. It cost us HKD13 each to get the MTR to Tung Chung (Citygate). I love the ride from Disneyland to Sunny Bay station (where we change to the Tung Chung line). The Disneyland train has plush comfy seats and it has Mickey Mouse shaped windows and hand grips. Oh so cute! My next Disneyland post coming right up is all about the park and it's many attractions!!
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can you tell me how much does it cost for the buffet breakfast for day 1 and day 2? I am going HK in feb and I've got a day to spend at disney.
Kinda belated but: GRATS ON THE ENGAGEMENT!!!! WEEEeeeeeeeee!
Hi qiqi... i recommend the enchanted garden for bfast as its more exclusive. n u get to see disney characters. ur kids will love it.


Some of the highest numbers of calls made to 999 are around midnight on Friday and Saturday nights, with around 5,000 calls an hour being received by BT. The early hours of New Year's Day are traditionally the busiest time of the year when up to 9,000 callscan be received each hour.
The latest development in the 999 service isAdvanced Mobile Location (AML), a new mobile location system, pioneered by BT, to pinpoint 999 calls from mobiles more precisely. When an emergency call is made with an AML-enabled smartphone, the phone automatically activates its location service and sends its position in a text message to the 999 service. AML is up to 4,000 times more accurate than existing location systems. It is now integrated into the Android operating system in the UK and is being adopted across Europe and the rest of the world.
The proportion of calls connected by BT to the various emergency services is: Police - 49 per cent, Ambulance - 47 per cent, Fire and Rescue Service - four per cent and less than one per cent to the Coastguard and Cave and Mountain rescue services.