It seems like the lifeline that you've been waiting for.
It's no big deal, right? You're getting paid next week, and you just need a few hundred to pay the mechanic for the service and those tyres that he replaced. You'd driven the last set until the mesh was almost showing, so it was seriously overdue. You need to pay him today, so you have your car to get to work tomorrow.
Why do the kids' birthday parties always come at the absolute worst time? Between the play centre, the cake, lolly bags and the rest it cost you pretty much the same as you need to find for the mechanic.
That payday loan looks ridiculously quick and easy. You'll pay it back next week. No dramas. It's only 4% interest; that's not bad. Totally doable. The website said that the cash could be in your account within an hour! That's amazing! There's no credit check so that should make it a piece of cake.
Oh, cool. The website looks totally legit. They've got all this official sounding stuff on there about responsible lending and stuff, so it looks like it's all above board.
Click. Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap.
Gosh, that's it? Too easy! It's taken you less than five minutes, and you're ready to hit the apply button. Ok, so there's that 20% establishment fee before you've even started, but that's OK, it only adds up to an extra few bucks per fortnight. You'll be able to handle that, no sweat. There's all that other stuff about fees and charges if you miss repayments, but that's got nothing to do with you. You'll make your payments on time and have it paid off by the due date for sure.
This scenario, or something like it, is happening thousands of times every day in households right across Australia. The payday loan industry is tipped to exceed $1 Billion this year, with no sign of abating. With aggressive, shrewd marketing, easy to use websites that promise quick, easy money in a few simple clicks, it can seem like the perfect solution to your immediate financial circumstances.
Unfortunately, for too many people, the dream can very quickly turn into a nightmare. That fine print that you can easily skim over details the oppressive punitive measures that small amount credit providers can, and frequently do, implement if any of the loan conditions are not met. That 4% "monthly fee" can rapidly balloon to an effective interest rate of 400% or even higher, turning your handy lifeline into a financial deadweight that drags you down to the abyss. Stories abound of everyday people still desperately trying to repay loans for years after they thought it would be done and dusted, yet still owing many times more than the amount they originally borrowed. With one in five payday loan borrowers behind on their repayments or in default, that is a whole lot of people who find themselves in a serious fiscal mess. The number of households in Australia using payday loans exploded by 55% between 2010 and 2015 and continuing that meteoric rise since, it's a problem that continues to worsen.
So, if someone does find themselves in a financial tight spot and needs to access quick cash, what are they to do? This is precisely the question that served as the catalyst for the founding of Speckle. Speckle's primary objective is to assist people all across Australia to access the cash they need, without seducing them into a vicious cycle of debt from which they are unable to extricate themselves. As part of Good Shepherd Microfinance, a not-for-profit organisation and backed by NAB, we're committed to financial inclusion and responsible, ethical lending practices that empower the borrower. This is because unlike many predatory payday lenders, Speckle is not ravenously obsessed with the pursuit of maximum profits. We're completely focused on that other "P" word – people, and helping them to achieve financial security and independence.
4% of principal for amounts up to $2000. For higher amounts, interest is charged at rates as high as 47%-65% per annum, calculated monthly.
Must be an Australian citizen or Permanent Resident aged 18 or above, earning a minimum of $30,000, exclusive of Centrelink benefits, which can make up no more than 50% of total income. Borrowers cannot have had two or more payday loans in the previous 90 days.
Borrowers need to be in paid employment and receive less than 50% of their income from Centrelink payments.
Vary from lender to lender. Recent legislation has limited the amount lenders can charge for dishonoured payments and most now set it at $15 per missed payment.
If at any time a borrower experiences difficulty in repaying a loan, we will work with them to make alternative arrangements that allow them to fulfil their obligations without additional costs and punitive measures. Our goal is to help people gain financial independence, rather than keep them in debt to inflate profits.
While most lenders claim to offer flexibility in repayment schedules, in reality, it is notoriously difficult even to reach someone with whom to discuss alternative arrangements.
From the table above, it should be pretty clear that a Speckle loan is a far more affordable, flexible and safe option for anyone looking for a hand up. In fact, even if you pay on time, every time and incur no additional fees, a small cash loan from Speckle will likely cost a mere half of what you could expect to pay with a payday lender. Our absolute commitment to working positively with our customers to help them through repayment difficulties is your insurance against the nightmare scenario experienced by far too many borrowers.
If you're looking to cut through the slick marketing and double speak and deal with a small amount lender that will help raise you up, rather than drag you down, contact Speckle today to see if our loan is right for you.


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Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving, which falls on November 27th this year. It is one of the busiest shopping days of the year and the official start to the holiday shopping season. Retailers often open at 5 a.m. or earlier and offer discounts, promotions and coupons to help drive up sales. Black Friday has become so popular that it has spawned websites like TGIblackfriday and mobile apps dedicated to helping consumers shop smarter.
Why is using this site better then reading the sale circulars on Thanksgiving?
For starters, we typically have the sales posted up to three weeks earlier than they are released in the Thanksgiving day newspaper. Our site adds valuable extra information to sale items such as competitor price comparisons, user comments and similar related products. We also provide a link to buy the items online if they're available on Black Friday or earlier. The site also allows you to create a personal shopping list to help plan your shopping strategy. Our powerful iPhone and Android app is like having every newspaper sale circular in your pocket while shopping on Black Friday. TGI Black Friday will help you shop smarter and faster, guaranteed.
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A doorbuster is a early morning deal that is available for only the first few hours of Black Friday or until sold out. These deals are used to get customers in the store. They are the sale items that shoppers will tend to camp out for overnight. If you're looking to score a hot doorbuster or early bird special it's best to arrive very early because quantities are usually limited.
Does TGI Black Friday have a mobile app?
Yes! we created an app for both iPhone and Android phone users. The app was well received with great praise and was downloaded over 1 million times last November. The app was named "App of the Week" by the New York Times and was featured by Apple as a holiday shopping favorite. For more information and a list of cool features visit the TGI Black Friday App page.
Are Black Friday deals only available in-store?
Some deals are only available in-store. However, in recent years we have seen may retailers offer some of the products online as well. A recent trend has been to offer some of the Black Friday sale items online the day before on Thanksgiving. You can check our site to find the products and deals that will be offered both online and in-store.
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Currently we add Black Friday deals for over 90 stores . If an ad leaks we will generally add it to the site ASAP. However, due to time and staff constraints we can't always add deals for smaller locally based stores. If you find a store that you think we should have send us an email and we will do our best.
How do you receive the Black Friday Ads early?
Black Friday ads are leaked in various places such as online forums and message boards. We also receive ads early from users like you via email. In recent years retailers have even begun sending Black Friday ads to us directly.
Cyber Monday is the Monday after Black Friday. Online stores promote Cyber Monday to try and continue the hype generated from Black Friday. Employees back from the holiday break go online in great numbers on Cyber Monday. The prices are generally not as good as Black Friday, however, you can avoid the crowds and still can find some great bargains.
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1 March 2009 Wilhelm Dunker, His Collection, and Pteriid Systematics
Ilya Tëmkin, Matthias Glaubrecht, Frank Köhler
Ilya Tëmkin,1,* Matthias Glaubrecht,2 Frank Köhler2
11Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Str
22Department of Malacozoology, Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-10115 Berlin,
*Corresponding author: ilya@amnh.org
Malacologia, 51(1):39-79 (2009). https://doi.org/10.4002/040.051.0104
Wilhelm Dunker was the foremost expert on the systematics of the bivalve family Pteriidae (referred to as genus Avicula in his time) in the nineteenth century. His work on the group culminated in the monograph Die Gattung Avicula, a part of the significant conchological iconography, Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet (Küster et al., 1837–1920). Dunker's volume remains unsurpassed in the taxonomic scope and the quality of illustrations. However, despite the fact that Die Gattung Avicula was readily available and widely cited, few specialists consulted the actual type material from the Dunker collection, which fell into oblivion for over a century. In this work, we attempted to reconstruct the contents and the history of Dunker's collection of pteriid bivalves, the specimens of which derive from two principal repositories, the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin and the Aquazoo-Löbbecke Museum in Düsseldorf. In addition to the annotated catalog of type and figured specimens, many of which are here recognized for the first time, this contribution gives an account of Dunker's life and science, and provides an overview of pertinent contemporary shell collections.
Ilya Tëmkin, Matthias Glaubrecht, and Frank Köhler "Wilhelm Dunker, His Collection, and Pteriid Systematics," Malacologia 51(1), 39-79, (1 March 2009). https://doi.org/10.4002/040.051.0104
Accepted: 1 April 2008; Published: 1 March 2009
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This recipe is from the 1997 edition of the Joy of Cooking.
Although it's called "custard-topped," when I make it the custard always ends up in the middle. In fact, when I made it just now, it seems that the whole wheat floated to the top (making a chocolate brown colored layer), the middle was a layer of custard, and the corn flour stayed at the bottom making a yellowish, light layer.
In the oven, this quick and easy batter is transformed, as if by magic, into moist corn bread topped with a layer of golden-crusted creamy custard that takes our breath away. Serve it with bacon or sausage for breakfast, or even all alone -- but try this luxurious dish at least once with pure maple syrup.
Position a rack in the lower third of the oven. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees (F). Place an ungreased 8 x 8 inch baking dish in the oven to heat.
Bake until the custard layer on top is puffed and golden brown but still quivery and a knife inserted in the center comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes. [My knife didn't come out clean but it was because the custard clung to it. So I just cooked it until it was set.] Remove from the oven and let stand for about 10 minutes before serving. Serve hot or warm.
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The ongoing uncertainty of Brexit is threatening the final chapter of a complex rescue and rehabilitation effort for 2 lions due to be rehomed at the Isle of Wight Zoo.
Previously forced to perform in a circus, the 5-year-old brothers, Vigo and Kumba, are currently being held at a rescue centre in Alicante, Spain, but time is running out for them to reach their permanent home at Isle of Wight Zoo before Brexit could thwart plans.
"We are facing major issues with the logistics of bringing these two majestic animals to their new safe haven here at the zoo and we're extremely worried about the impact of Brexit or possibly no deal on Brexit.
The race is on for the zoo to bring the lions to the Isle of Wight now but with pre-Brexit demand causing costs to rise for the few suitable transport options more urgent fundraising is needed.
Anyone wishing to help with the fundraising effort for the rehoming of these lions can visit https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/kumbaandvigo.
As part of The Wildheart Trust, the zoo provides the accommodation and care element of the charity's work with big cats and exotic animals – supporting rescue projects and raising awareness of the plight of animals who become victims of the circus and pet trade.


This traditional healing and relaxing massage has been handed down through generations. The technique of long strokes, completed with feet acupressure points, renews and strengthens the body. The oil that we use is rich with traditional herbs and spices to ensure your massage with us will be truly revitalizing, peaceful and luxurious.
This deep and strong massage relieves stress, muscle tension and aches in problem areas like the neck, shoulders and back ( where people usually hold their tension ). Deep strokes of circular friction and cross fiber massage technique stimulate blood circulation. This massage is helpful after working hard or after a long journey.
For all of senses, unwind with a choice of aromatic essential oil of plan and flower, with a rhythmic light stroke with movement to the lymphatic area massage, for energy balancing lines, stimulate the mind clean out the body.
The therapeutic power of touch combines with the energy of the earth in this muscle relaxing massage. Smooth warmed stones glide across your body in long flowing strokes allowing the heat to relax muscles and induce a soothing effect on your emotions. Simultaneously, stones are placed on the body's various energy points to encourage the body's healing potential.
This is specifically concentrated on back, Shoulder and Neck. A combination of all the technique will be used to relieve the aches and take out the stress.
This specialized foot and hand massage assists in relief of stress and tension. This technique is based on the premise that the body contains energy or '' Chi" that constantly flows through channels or zones. These channels unite to form the reflex points on the feet and hands ( and which are related to the nervous system). It is believed to restore blood circulation and nerve supply to its natural state of equilibrium.
Beginning with a footbath followed by deep massage at the feet, with long stroke movements to relax and restore blood circulation. An excellent rejuvenation therapy after hiking and shopping in ubud.


Academic Honesty is a fundamental principle of student life. USP students sign our Code of Academic Honesty prior to commencing their studies. As stated in the ACADEMIC HONESTY: POLICY & PROCEDURES (FOR USP STUDENTS), Policy Number: 3.4.2, there are 3 main kinds of academic dishonesty; plagarism, collusion and cheating.
4.1 Plagarism: Plagiarism is the copying of another person's creative work and using it as your own – without explicitly giving credit to the original creator. Work copied without acknowledgement from a book, from another student's work, from the internet or from any other source is plagiarism.
4.2 Collusion: Collusion means working with someone else to deceive or mislead to gain an unfair academic advantage.
4.3 Cheating: Cheating involves acting in any way that directly contradicts the explicit rules and guiding principles of that form of assessment. It applies to any form of examination including short tests, quizzes and final examinations.


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Hands On: Alien Isolation
One word: hide
Feature by Adam Smith former Deputy Editor
Expectations? Enormous. Alien: Isolation is a first-person stealth/horror adaptation of my favourite film. Not a direct adaptation but a digital recreation, in terms of both its setting and its style. I've been starved of horror games in recent years and this one has a lot to live up to. Several hours in the company of the creature have just about convinced me that it might be time to believe.
Last week I visited Sega to play around four hours of Alien: Isolation then, a couple of days later, I received code to play at home. It's important to make the distinction between the experience of playing in a room with the lead designer and five other writers and that of playing through the same sections of the game alone, in the dark, with the volume turned up high enough that I can not only HEAR a pin drop, but almost evacuate the room and my bladder whenever I do.
In the first environment, playing the game for the first time and occasionally interrupting myself to share anecdotes with a neighbour, Alien: Isolation was a game of tension and nervous laughter. There's nothing funny about young Ripley's situation – we pick up a little way into the game, just as everything on the Sevastopol is going to hell. The first task is to enter the medical area to find supplies for a wounded ally. Somebody asks Ripley what he should do if the 'creature' shows up. Her response could be the large print bolded instruction that forms the majority of the game's manual: 'Hide'.
Hiding is the natural response when the xenomorph enters a room. The first time it appears, in one of only two fully-scripted sequences I can recall in the hours I played, a vent bursts from the ceiling and smoke spills from within, screening the creature as it unfolds to the floor, almost like liquid. And then it stands and starts to hunt.
It's taller than I expected. Coming face to face with a creature that is at once alien and yet such a familiar image is strange. It's the first time that I've encountered Giger's horror in a game and found it quite so startling and unnerving, and that's probably partly because of the game's aesthetic. Quite simply, the Sevastopol is one with the Nostromo. It's of the same world, from the clunking key-operated machinery of save point terminals that take precious, anxious seconds to activate, to the whirrs and beeps of computers slowly coughing up their data. Every terminal and device, like Mother's interface, feels like it must be punched with weary authority rather than stroked and caressed like the slinky screens of Minority Report or the gadgets that today's youths use to take their selfies.
The seventies tech of Alien is awesome and terrible in its fragility, and more so than ever in this recreation. Reading this, wherever you might be and whatever kind of screen the words are on, you have more science at your fingertips than Ripley has in her entire inventory. Every broken down bleep is a reminder of the futility of craft and creation against the perfect organism. Which brings us back to that instruction: hide.
Escaping from the alien and traversing each area takes on a rhythm, as most activities in games tend to do.
The rhythms of Alien involve running, hiding, avoiding and distracting. Ripley's tools range from an actual revolver (useful against humanoid enemies, equivalent to a 'bite me' sign stuck to her back when it comes to the xenomorph) to noisemakers and flares. The latter can be used to draw attention away from an escape route or objective, but the couple of seconds that pass as the burning object is in hand, illuminating and hissing angrily, are torture. The game teaches you, through the medium of jaws within jaws and spikey appendages, to move slowly and remain unseen. Anything that compromises that approach, even for a moment, feels like a possible death.
There's a danger that Alien will be played mostly with eyes on the motion detector rather than the environment. Like an RTS that offers luscious, complex 3D terrain that is superseded by the efficiency of a minimap, Isolation's actual physical spaces (in which there is much screaming to be heard) can be a distraction. The detector is life. When the alien is prowling, which is always, no move should be made before first checking what direction death waits in, how quickly it is moving and in which direction. There's a sickening blend of relief and unease whenever the blip suddenly vanishes. It's in the vents, moving at terrifying pace at the periphery of even the scanner's vision, or it's waiting, silent and still.
And the key difference between playing in company and playing alone lies in the reaction to those moments – when the alien behaves in an unexpected manner and sends me scurrying to the nearest locker, how do I react? With people around, suffering the same fate, the tendency was to swear and to laugh, nervously and in sympathy. Like Ash, we were impressed by the nature of the beast and admired its tenacity. Its movements, sounds and animations add up to a convincingly animalistic set of behaviours. There is a personality to the creature and it's easy to ascribe motivations to its appearances and assaults, but they are fairly simple murderous motivations. That suits the fiction as well as the style of play. The xenomorph doesn't need to do more than shock and slaughter because that is its role, and it seems to fulfil it efficiently.
I was slightly concerned that the game was tense rather than terrifying. Holding your breath in a locker as the thing stands outside, dripping hate, is claustrophobic and anxiety-inducing. Black spots start to swim in Ripley's vision as she almost chokes herself in a bid to remain hidden. The game is a sequence of nightmarish situations, all tumbling out of sequence rather than anticipated by a script, but it didn't frighten me until I played it alone.
That makes sense, of course, but it's a relief to discover that I'm not immune to the panicked flight response all the same. When I played at night, in the dark, headphones on, I lived for longer after every death because I became less capable of taking risks. Being caught and killed began to seem like the worst fate imaginable. There was a moment, as I crawled beneath the floor in a utility tunnel and heard the panicked voices of people above, that I realised what my situation was akin to – Isolation makes me feel like the thugs in an Arkham game would feel. Something is hunting, moving with terrifying pace and mostly invisible, and it hides in shadow, emerging like a knife in the dark to pick off anything with a pulse.
For better and worse, Isolation is shaping up to be the game that was promised. The alien doesn't follow a simple set of directions during each encounter, it follows a programmed set of habits, instincts and behaviours. It's unstoppable and lethal, punishing the slightest mistake or act of bravado. If you've played Amnesia, you'll remember the moment that you realised nothing was hunting you in most areas and that the sounds were the creaks of a ghost train's animatronics.
The xenomorph is predictable to an extent, but it certainly isn't a mechanical skeleton bursting from the shadows and shaking at the end of a stick. It investigates sources of sound and light, follows movement, and kills anything that moves. Alarmingly, it even defies the conventions of the horror movie hunter. My most memorable moment with the preview build came when I encountered a group of terrified, hostile humans. The alien was at my back, prowling, and they were between me and the area's one exit. I threw a noisemaker into their midst and rolled under a table.
A green blur on the motion tracker shot toward the group. They screamed, they fired their weapons, they begged for mercy. I decided to make my escape while the creature fed on their shredded remains, darting toward the next room, and it was only when I heard the clattering of chitin on metal and a horrible shriek behind me that I realised – the alien doesn't feast on remains and it doesn't celebrate its kills. It engages, executes and leaves a pile of steaming entrails in its wake. Then it moves on to the next target.
All that I saw of it was the tail as it punctured my stomach and a spider-like hand gripping my face from behind, preparing to snap the head from its stem.
The difficulty (I played on hard) means that areas become familiar due to repeated attempts to survive them in one piece and there's certainly a risk that the novelty of the aesthetic will become insignificant as frustration builds. But that's why the inclusion of humanoid obstacles, synthetic and organic, is necessary rather than an interruption or concession to gunplay. They're still things to avoid rather than confront, if at all possible, and add new and unexpected interactions in the midst of the familiar rhythms. Complications of any sort add to the texture of unease and prevent each series of corridors and rooms from becoming a different shaped box to hide in.
More than any single anecdote or moment of anguish, I'm fixated on the simple fact of the alien's uncanny existence. Its movements can be seen and tracked, but they are never known, as it sometimes scrambles into view and sometimes passes by, less than foot away, inside a wall. A relationship builds between predator and prey, but it's one of awe and anxiety rather than a mechanical understanding. The alien, even as it stands fully in view, remains terrifying and unknown. And that's exactly as it should be.
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CWA Canada stands with VICE as source protection case goes to Supreme Court
Posted By admin, On June 6, 2018
Source: cwacanada.ca
VICE Media's legal fight with the RCMP over a journalist's right to protect sources goes before the Supreme Court of Canada today.
Standing alongside VICE will be CWA Canada, the only union in a coalition of news outlets and journalist organizations that has been granted intervener status in the case.
A production order issued by the Mounties against VICE journalist Ben Makuch to hand over all communications between him and an alleged ISIS fighter was upheld by the Ontario Superior Court and the Ontario Court of Appeal.
CWA Canada President Martin O'Hanlon called the rulings "bad news for journalism and for democracy" and committed the union to continuing the fight to the highest court in the land.
"As a media union, we will speak out loudly to protect freedom of expression and the role of a free press as a pillar of democracy," O'Hanlon said.
"Police have an important job to do in protecting us from crime, but they cannot expect journalists to do that job for them. The media is not, nor should it ever be, an arm of the state."
The media union represents workers at VICE's Canadian news operations through its biggest Local, the Canadian Media Guild.
Vice journalist 'eager' on eve of his press-freedom hearing at Supreme Court
"What makes this case different from a confidential source case is that it's about material a journalist has gathered but keeps to him or herself and uses as the journalist sees fit in a story."
Paul Schabas, counsel to intervener coalition
The coalition, which recently received approval to act as interveners, also includes the CBC, APTN, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, the Canadian Association of Journalists, and Reporters Without Borders.
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In response to that ruling, O'Hanlon said: "It's frustrating that this sort of thing continues to happen, especially with the passage of federal legislation in 2017 that recognizes the right of journalists to protect their sources."
"It is vital for free speech and democracy that journalists guard the anonymity of their sources. If not, sources, including whistleblowers, will be far less likely to talk to journalists knowing that they could be identified and punished. The result? Canadians will be blocked from important information and stories about matters of vital public interest."
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"They call her 'Miracle Ammie,'?" says Pastor George Everett, holding up a photo of a big-eyed girl in braids and a stretched out T-shirt. "This is one of the kids that I am taking care of."
We're sitting in the office of Transcontinental Christian Ministries, a small congregation of Liberian Americans based in an office park in Kent where he works. He's describing to me how Ammie was orphaned in last year's Ebola outbreak.
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"She was just lying on her mom with her mouth on the breast when her mom died . … They took her from there and gave her to someone to take care of."
He explains she's a "miracle" because she never contracted the virus herself.


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Kafaba Lynching: Arrest Persons Who Gathered To Witness The Killing – OccupyGhana
OcccupyGhana is calling for the immediate arrest and prosecution of all persons who gathered and looked on as 90-year-old Akua Denteh was being lynched at Kafaba in the Savannah Region.
According to the group, the bystanders did nothing to stop the crime from being committed hence are guilty of a misdemeanour.
In a statement, OccupyGhana said all efforts must be made to identify the persons captured in the viral video.
"Indeed, each of the persons captured on the video as being present is guilty of the misdemeanour of being present when the crime was taking place, under section 316 of the Act. For not taking any step to prevent the crime, all those persons are guilty of a second misdemeanour under section 22 of the Act."
"We therefore call for the arrest everyone who is identified as being present. Faced with the prospect of jail, they are very likely to help identify and track all the perpetrators in the murder," it said.
Akua Denteh, about two weeks ago, was tortured and killed after she was accused of being a witch by a supposed priestess brought into the community to allegedly cleanse it.
The matter has generated nationwide condemnation with calls on the police to ensure that all those culpable are made to face the law.
So far six persons are currently facing prosecution over the matter.
They include five persons who reportedly invited and hosted priestess who declared the 90-year-old woman a witch as well as one woman who was captured in the viral video hitting the deceased.
OccupyGhana said it is unfortunate that such mob actions still occur in Ghana and believes that the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) must step up education in communities to disabuse the minds of people about superstitions and arcane customs and practices such as the lynching of old women accused of being witches.
It also said the Ministry for Gender and Social Protection must take urgent steps to close all witch camps equip persons in such camps with vocational skills.
Read OccupyGhana's full statement below:
THE ISSUE OF THE LYNCHING OF WITCHES
Like most Ghanaians OccupyGhana®'s attention has been drawn to a very disturbing video making the rounds on social media. It shows an elderly woman being assaulted by two women while a crowd watches.
The incident is supposed to have occurred in Kafaba in the East Gonja Municipality of the Savannah region. The victim is alleged to be a 90-year-old woman called Madam Akua Denteh, was accused by a local fetish priestess called Hajia Filina, of being a witch. It appears the priestess was hired by one Sanjo to make this 'diagnosis.' The others involved in this crime were persons named Aliu, Bumaye, Ashley and Manafo. The poor victim succumbed to her injuries and her dead body was later found where she was lynched.
This rather heart-breaking and barbaric act is but one of many such lynching incidents that plague the Ghanaian society. Victims of lynchings are not only suspected criminals but also often elderly women accused of being witches.
Mob justice in itself is terrible. Unfortunately, it is a rather dark side of our country's history and does not seem to want to go away. It is unconstitutional, barbaric, unjust, unfair and criminal, and often has fatal consequences.
The fact that in this day and age, there are Ghanaians who still believe in the superstition that witches exert an enormous deleterious influence on life and the punishment for this alleged pernicious activity which should be death by lynching, is unbelievable. It hints at how deep the belief in erroneous, dangerous and arcane customs are and how much these beliefs influence life in the country.
That a crowd watched as a helpless 90-year-old woman was lynched shows the degree of acceptance of this inhuman practice in the society.
That this occurrence is not uncommon is rather sad. If one does a Google search with the words 'witch' and 'Ghana,' the stories and reports that pop up should make each Ghanaian hang their head in collective shame. It is not a coincidence that about 235 km due northwest from Kafaba is a 'Witch Camp.' In the town of Gushegu, the Missionary Sisters of the Poorest of the Poor run a camp for poor women who were accused of witchcraft, beaten, and cast out. These are the lucky ones who did not succumb to the assaults and this camp is their haven now.
Not only elderly women get accused but younger women and even children fall victim to this practice. According to a 2018 Human Rights Report by the US States Department, there are more than six witch camps spread throughout the northern regions of Ghana. These camps are said to hold about 2,000-2,500 adult women and 1,000-1,200 children and the numbers could be larger.
Article 15 of the Constitution demands respect for the dignity of all persons, and clearly states:
'1. The dignity of all persons shall be inviolable.
2. No person shall, whether or not he is arrested, restricted or retained, be subjected to
a. torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;
b. any other condition that detracts or is likely to detract from his dignity and worth as a human being.'
In spite of these constitutional rights, any fetish priest or priestess can get women and children assaulted and even killed with the simple yet dangerous designation of 'Witch.'
This video has incited the usual uproar and the Police has even publicized a letter about the investigation. The President has spoken about it. We understand that some arrests have been made. We commend the police on being on the case. However, soon we will forget about this incident and another poor woman will be accused of being a witch and assaulted, even killed.
Unless there is a move to change this deeply-held belief systems and do away with these superstitions that witches dwell among us and are responsible for most misfortunes, these assaults and lynching of poor women will not stop.
It is our view that what occurred at Kafaba, before the murder happened, was a trial by ordeal, which is a second-degree felony under section 315 or our Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29). Indeed, each of the persons captured on the video as being present are guilty of the misdemeanour of being present when the crime was taking place, under section 316 of the Act. For not taking any step to prevent the crime, all those persons are guilty of a second misdemeanour under section 22 of the Act.
We therefore call for the arrest everyone who is identified as being present. Faced with the prospect of jail, they are very likely to help identify and track all the perpetrators in the murder.
We further ask that the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) step up its efforts to educate the population about superstitions and arcane customs and practices. A program reminding Ghanaians about the need to respect each other's' civil and human rights is also direly needed.
We also ask the Gender and Social Protection Ministry to enforce the closure of these so-called 'Witch Camps' and allow these poor women and children to re-join society with adequate protections. The Ministry has an obligation to offer vocational training to the occupants of those camps to aid their reintegration. The Ministry should also embark on an education program aimed at teaching people in at-risk areas that witchcraft is a superstition for which no one should die.
We ask all TV and radio stations to dedicate time each day to exhorting against mob justice and the assaulting and lynching of women accused of being witches.
With these actions, we hope we can take a step closer to a Ghana, where civil and human rights are respected, and the lynching of witches becomes a thing of the past.
In the Service of God & Country.
---citinewsroom


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PSLS • News • PS3 / PlayStation 3 News, Trophies, Reviews, and More
PlayStation Developers Reveal Their Top 5 Games of the PS3/360/Wii Generation
Jason DunningWednesday, July 16, 2014
Way back in November 2013, Sony Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida revealed his top 10 games of the previous generation (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii), and in a new feature by Game Informer, they asked 35 different developers around the industry what their top 5 games of the previous generation were.
Among the developers questioned are a handful from Naughty Dog and Guerrilla Games, whose answers you can read below:
Evan Wells (Naughty Dog Co-President)
Wii Sports Resort
Christophe Balestra (Naughty Dog Co-President)
Bruce Straley (Naughty Dog Game Director)
Neil Druckmann (Naughty Dog Creative Director)
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Hermen Hulst (Guerilla Games Managing Director)
Looking at the answers from other developers, the Uncharted series (mainly Uncharted 2), The Last of Us, Heavy Rain, Journey, and the LittleBigPlanet series all get mentions.
What are your top 5 games from the previous generation?
Tags: Bruce Straley, Christophe Balestra, Evan Wells, Guerrilla Games, Naughty Dog, Neil Druckmann, The Last of Us, Uncharted, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves


Colin MacArthur, Robyn Hyde and Dave Smith will be presenting four papers at the combined 39th Australasian Transport Research Forum and 4th Transport Knowledge Conference being held in Auckland from 27-29 November 2017.
Colin will present a practice paper on the learnings from the delivery of a multi-metric network operating plan (NOP) for the Tauranga Area. This presentation will reflect on how, through the application of existing data and GIS analysis, you can simultaneously reduce the demands on stakeholders and strengthen funding arguments across a range of objectives.
Robyn will present her research which explored the elements that influence the value of a public transport service and developed a framework that extends economic evaluation procedures to consider the contribution of isolated services to the wider network value, including broader social and accessibility values. She will also be co-presenting (with the NZ Transport Agency) the outcomes of recent research exploring the implications of a change in road rules, whereby buses may get priority over general traffic when egressing from bus stops.
Dave will present the findings of research considering the role of crowdsourcing in New Zealand as a source of real-time traveller information and supporting the efficient operation of the transport network.
We look forward to catching up with our industry colleagues at this upcoming conference.


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A8: S2 - The Silver Grid
Firstly, I'd like to apologise for being away for so long.
If there's one thing which is a fundamental DON'T as a blogger, it's to take a hiatus. But doesn't life have a funny way of panning out? This was never an intentional hiatus, it's just everything has been unbelievably hectic lately, and I haven't had any time to blog, mostly because of this new internship I have started working in the City.
Besides, the more time I'm off having adventures, the more stories I'll have to tell, right?
This internship has been the most incredible experience of my entire life. I have only been here two weeks, but already my life has changed dramatically. I'm commuting to the city every morning, working in an incredible office surrounded by bloggers and fielding emails from celebrities, PR Agents and hundreds of fashion journalists/bloggers, I've been appointed head of a nationwide model search and on the organising committee for a VIP PR event.
Day by day, Perfect Future is becoming a reality.
I want it to happen, and it's happening.
And you know what?
I don't think that's a coincidence.
Recently I watched an hour-long video on Youtube which didn't change my life.
It surprised and awed me to the very last second, and I felt a profound sense of enlightenment after I'd watched it, but it did not shock me. It was the opposite. (I'm not going to link this video as it deals rather controversially with the ideas of religion and atheism, and I don't want to tread on any toes. But anyone with an open mind who is willing to be enlightened with something a bit off the wall, contact me and I'll send you the link.) This video aired the thoughts about fate, destiny and luck that have always circulated around my mind, and I've always written about, and summarised it more perfectly than I ever could, despite them being my own thoughts.
You are the sole director of your own fate.
You were not put here for a direct reason, it's you who decides whether to give your life purpose or not.
Your imagination has far greater influence on the course of your life than you would ever expect.
If you want to be lucky, you can make yourself lucky.
And the people who realise this, start putting it into practise and really start to live... They are the silvers.
I was so surprised, because all the things I'd written about and have boggled my mind for so long were just thoughts which had circulated my brain from a young age. I'd never read about them in books, or been inspired from movies or television. It was like I was born with these thoughts in my head. And here I was discovering someone who thought the EXACT same things as me. And not only that, not only them... this video had millions of views and comments of people who were so shocked to find this, and other people who think the same too.
How is it possible for these millions of people around the world, who have never ever met and probably never will, from a whole range of ages, races, religions and social status, from the furthest reaches of the globe, in the most inconceivable places on the planet... how is it possible for all of us, independently to have had these thoughts?
How is it even fathomable that over a million completely random strangers were born with the exact same frame of mind, the exact same perception of the world and born already with the same idea, philosophy and theory... if it wasn't true?
Now I know this all sounds a little bit crazy, but I believe that all these people, silver people are connected somehow.
And I can prove it.
When I studied psychology in High School, we briefly learnt about the ideas of a 'Collective Grid of Human Consciousness' and the 'Theory of Collective Consciousness' - How people from across the world are connected in some ethereal cloud of like-minded thinking.
But I'd never really thought much of it.
However I'd been mildly intrigued by a case study called 'The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon.' To cut a rather long and drawn-out study short, this is what happened:
Some Primate Behaviourists were observing a group of monkeys on a Japanese island, to see how they learn from one another. They were giving the monkeys sweet potatoes, which they liked, but tossing them into the sand first. The monkeys did not like sandy tatties, so they had to learn a way to remove the dirt - thus they discovered that washing them in the sea got them clean again to enjoy.
It took quite some time for the monkeys to get the hang of this and pass it on, especially for the older ones, but soon they were teaching it to one another and all having a massive sweet-tattie banquet. More and more monkeys were joining the group, and the numbers started growing. But then something remarkable happened. For an inexplicable reason which has baffled scientists ever since, when one monkey joined, something pretty frickin' weird happened. As they are unsure about the exact figures, they've put it at a hypothetical 99.
When that last monkey joined and turned it to 100, there was a massive shift. Suddenly, every single monkey just knew what to do. Even the new ones, the old grandpa monkeys who'd never got the hang of it, all of them. They just knew what to do without ever being shown.
And even more remarkable than that, the monkeys on all the surrounding islands suddenly knew too. The researchers were stunned and baffled to find that monkeys across the sea, who had never even seen other monkeys washing their food, were now all doing it, completely of their own accord.
HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE.
As most of you probably are, I was sceptical. They must have seen one of the researchers miming an action, or there must have been some scientific error to account for it. So I guess I just dismissed it as creative storytelling and got on with my life.
But it wasn't until recently, before I saw the video in fact, that I had my own shocking experience of it first hand, and started to think that perhaps... perhaps this wasn't just all mythical pseudo-scientific folklore after all.
I've always been a fan of a blog called Thought Catalog. It's basically a huge culmination of articles and thought-provoking essays from writers and bloggers from around the world - it pretty much does what it says on the tin.
A few weeks ago, I was browsing through their articles, when one really stood out to me. It was published on July 1st 2013, written by a girl named Koty Neelis and entitled:
"The Difference Between Boring People And People Who Actually Want To Live."
It immediately caught my eye, for obvious reasons. So I began to read.
It didn't take long before a sickening, hot mixture of anger and confused horror began to rise in my throat.
My initial reaction was anger, as it was apparently clear that she had massively ripped me off. Her essay was more or less a word-for-word carbon copy of my first post on Scarphelia that I'd written in January 2013. And was worst, was that she'd done it so much dang better than I had.
Where I'd written:
" I believe that there are two types of human; silver people and grey people. I believe that every human being is born grey, but laden with limitless potential. Those who never quite have the epiphany of realising the latter, remain grey. Grey people live their lives blissfully unaware of more. They think on a consistent level, live a wonderfully unextraordinary existence, but are content that way. They're born, go to school, grow up, get a job, have children, retire, have grandchildren, die. Done.
But then there are the silver people. Silver people are the artists, the creators, the great thinkers. They see life as an adventure, plunge headlong into it, squeezing every drop of life out of existence. These are the reckless, the thrill-seekers, the adventurers, the people who live every day as if it were their last, the people who have great dreams and great passions, the people who believe that they are important, and strive to leave an impact on this world. The people determined to seek the more. "
She'd written:
" I believe there are two types of people: the drones and the dreamers. Drones are people who are perfectly great, nice humans. Drones may be a bit of a negative term for them and I don't mean it to be that way because there is absolutely nothing wrong with having this personality type or following this life path....They go to college, get a job, buy a house, pack in the 401k, have a family, work work work until they are nearly dead.
Dreamers, on the other hand, see the world in a much bigger picture and operate on a different frequency. Their scale of reference far exceeds their city limits, even if they have never had the opportunity to venture outside their own dwelling. Dreamers soak up words from books, images in films, and lyrics and melodies from songs because those are the things that feed them and nurture their souls and in return helps them create products of expression whether it's a new social media site, a book of essays, a painting, photographs of war, or something else that connects us in a larger way.
Dreamers think bigger than most people, are unwilling to settle for zombie office culture, and want to create their own jobs. They are writers and computer programmers and entrepreneurs and musicians and other hungry souls who refuse to believe that this is the best that life gets. "
And the whole essay continued on in the exact same way as my first post had.
But then I took a deep breath, subsided my anger, and began to think. I decided to get in contact with her via Twitter, and after a shocked, partly-horrified and absolutely dumb-founded exchange from both sides, we came to realise that something altogether more remarkable and inexplicable had taken place.
Two girls, two writers from two opposite sides of the world, had both had the exact same thought, completely independent of one another, and had both taken to the web to vent our feelings on this, resulting in comprising two, almost identical articles, all whilst remaining completely oblivious to the other writer and the other article's existence.
How? For me, there's no other explanation.
I am now firm in the belief that, whether we are prepared to acknowledge it or accept it, silver people are all connected in some way. We already know we are not like other people, but I reckon it must go beyond that.
But I don't want this just to be a fantastical, sci-fi-esque shimmering spiderweb that hangs above all our heads. I want to make this silver grid real.
That's why, after the success of my first ever guest blogger, I've decided to open up the doors of Scarphelia to the silvers.
I've sent out a few emails already to people I would love to have on board, but this is open to all.
I'm searching for guest bloggers from far and wide to come and write with me, essays about inspiration, philosophy, spirituality, adventures, spontaneity, seizing life by the horns and living the shit out of it. So if you fit the bill, then I want to find you! Email me with any questions, ideas, thoughts:
Scarphelia@gmail.com
Because you know what? Even is this whole 'consciousness grid' thing isn't real, and it's just one big ol' case of coincidence, I want to make it real. I want to reach out and connect to like-minded people and bring it all together to build a community. It might seem a bit ambitious, unrealistic and perhaps a little conceited, but if it wasn't for the Internet, I never would have found Koty or her article...and I know we are not the only ones.
So think of this as me shooting up my gleaming flare gun into the vast, dark, uncharted expanse of the Internet, in the hopes that some of you silver people will spot the faint glimmer of it glowing in the distance.
I don't know who you all are, but I know you're out there, and I want to find you.
Find us on Twitter:
@KotyNeelis
@KatieOldham
@Scarphelia
A8: S3 - Chapter's End
Silver is Magnetic - Guest post #2
Ambition & Adventure - Guest Post #1
Act 8: Scene 1 - AUGUST


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Cheese was one of the last foods I stopped eating after starting a Paleo diet – it was simply too hard to resist at first.
Luckily, I found cashew cheese as an easy and delicious replacement. Give it a try and pin the infographic below on how to make cashew cheese so you don't forget – it's super easy to make and has a nice creamy texture very much like cream cheese. In fact, it also looks very similar to cream cheese.
My favorite use for cashew cheese is in this recipe for bacon wrapped dates stuffed with cashew cheese.
Place the raw cashews into a bowl of room temperature water so that it covers the cashews, drape a paper towel or tea towel over the bowl to prevent dust settling, and soak overnight.
Place the soaked cashews, 1/2 cup fresh water, and coconut oil into a blender and blend until smooth.


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Q: How to pass to package unicode-math's \setmathfont command a path to a font file? I downloaded the OpenType font file STIXTwoMath-Regular.otf from the STIX Two Git repository, and saved it as ~/STIXTwoMath-Regular.otf.
I then saved the following LaTeX code in the file ~/Hw2/Test.tex.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\setmathfont{../STIXTwoMath-Regular.otf}
\begin{document}
\end{document}

I then executed the following commands in the Terminal.
> cd ~/Hw2
> lualatex Test

The compilation failed, and the following message appeared in ~/Hw2/Test.log.
Package fontspec Info: Font family '../STIXTwoMath-Regular.otf(0)' created for
(fontspec)             font '../STIXTwoMath-Regular.otf' with options
(fontspec)             [Renderer=Basic,BoldItalicFont={},ItalicFont={},SmallCap
sFont={},Script=Math,FontAdjustment={\__um_luatex_copy_fontdimens:
(fontspec)             }].
(fontspec)
(fontspec)              This font family consists of the following NFSS
(fontspec)             series/shapes:
(fontspec)
(fontspec)             - 'normal' (m/n) with NFSS spec.:
(fontspec)             <->"[../STIXTwoMath-Regular.otf]:mode=base;script=math;l
anguage=dflt;"
(fontspec)             - 'small caps'  (m/sc) with NFSS spec.:
(fontspec)             and font adjustment code:
(fontspec)             \__um_luatex_copy_fontdimens:

LaTeX Font Info:    Trying to load font information for TU+.. on input line 6.
LaTeX Font Info:    No file TU...fd. on input line 6.

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `TU/../STIXTwoMath-Regular.otf(0)/m' undefined
(Font)              using `TU/lmr/m/n' instead on input line 6.

! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again>
n
l.6 \begin
        {document}
?
! Emergency stop.
<to be read again>
n
l.6 \begin
        {document}
End of file on the terminal!

Questions

*

*Why did the compilation fail?

*How can I pass to the \setmathfont command the path to the STIXTwoMath-Regular.otf font file?

Further Considerations
If instead of ../STIXTwoMath-Regular.otf I write STIXTwoMath-Regular.otf, the compilation completes successfully, but I imagine this is due to one of the following reasons:

*

*Either STIXTwoMath-Regular.otf is part of the TeXLive installation or of my operating system's fonts catalog, and the lualatex engine finds this font file in the canonical folders associated with TeXLive fonts or with my operating system's fonts,

*or the \setmathfont has some built-in method of looking for font files, which includes looking for them in the active directory's parent directory.
In either case, I would appreciate a general answer to my question, that will be able to deal with

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*.otf files that have not previously been saved in my file system,

*and paths that \setmathfont doesn't search automatically.

A: Non-OS-system-installed fonts may be referred to in various ways: in texmf tree or current folder, Path= not required; elsewhere, Path= required.

MWE
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{unicode-math}

\defaultfontfeatures{Scale = MatchUppercase}
\setmathfont[Scale=0.97]{STIX Two Math}
\setmainfont[Scale=0.97]{STIX Two Text}

\setmathfontface{\texthiero}[
Path=C:/[long local path]/fonts/3/f/,
Extension=.otf,
]{Aegyptus}
\setmathfontface{\textcurr}[Scale=2]{Maya.otf}
\newfontface{\ttextcurr}[Scale=2,Colour=red]{Maya.otf}

\begin{document}

texmf-tree font (log = .../texlive/2022/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype
/public/stix2-otf/STIXTwoMath-Regular.otf):

\[ x^{2}+y^{2}=z^{2}\]

Path= font (C:/.../.../.../fonts/3/f/):

{\Large
\[ \texthiero{}(\texthiero{}+\texthiero{}=\texthiero{}\texthiero{}) \]
}

Current folder font {\ttextcurr{\symbol{97}}\ttextcurr{\symbol{98}}\ttextcurr{\symbol{99}}}:

{\Large
\[ \textcurr{\char97} + \textcurr{\char98} = \textcurr{\char99} \]
}

\end{document}

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Ruiz fell to all fours on a delayed reaction and once he regained his balance, referee Jack Reiss ruled that the title challenger, wobbly while he listened to instructions, was unable to continue. Reiss halted the contest with one second remaining in the opening round as Davis scored his eighth first-round KO.
Davis (21-0, 20 knockouts) retained his 130-pound title — and his status as The Ring's top-rated junior lightweight — in his first televised main event in the United States. The 24-year-old was originally slated to fight former three-division titleholder Abner Mares, but he suffered a detached retina during a sparring session last week.
So Ruiz (39-5, 30 KOs) received the call on 10 days' notice to salvage the event during Grammy Weekend in Los Angeles. Davis competed just once in 2018, but he pledges the inactivity – and issues that plagued him — are behind him.
The post Gervonta Davis retains 130-pound title with first-round knockout of Hugo Ruiz appeared first on The Ring.


Melanoma can spread through the skin locally, through the fixed conduits beneath the skin, known as lymphatics that connect to lymph nodes, or through the bloodstream. Surgical treatments may vary, depending on the location of the cancer.
In patients where the cancer may have spread to the lung or abdomen, the Melanoma and Skin Cancer Program works with specialists from surgical oncology and thoracic surgery to offer minimally invasive surgical options.
For those diagnosed with melanoma, surgery to remove the primary tumor, and a safety zone of surrounding tissues, is often the first line of treatment. Newer plastic surgery procedures may avoid the need for skin grafting, and provide easier recovery for patients with less scarring.
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Should I drive three hours to Buffalo for the Bottom: On Shakespeare conference? If something's happening that you'd definitely attend if it were in Binghamton, why does Buffalo seem too far away? He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water.
As a clumsy dodge against accusations of blogger fatigue (which has apparently taken down both A Sorter and Ululations in my absence) here is my latest summary of progress toward my 'A' exam (which, coincidentally, appears likely now to be partly focused on "A"):
Topic Area One: Aesthetics and Ideology
I've made the most progress in this area, having read the relevant portions of Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment, Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics, all of Jameson's Marxism and Form, and am currently embarked on reading Adorno's Aesthetic Theory in Prof. Peter Hohendahl's seminar on that text. The aesthetic formation that I approach this work in light of is Heideggerian, drawn from my readings of such essays as "The Origin of the Work of Art," "The Thing," "The Question Concerning Technology," etc., as well as certain inferences I've made for the aesthetic consequences of Being and Time. I would describe the question that I want to ask, as it's currently taking shape, as one that pits existential aesthetic priorities (artwork as a path to subject formation) with and against materialist social and political imperatives (the objective world as it is reflected or negated by the artwork and its inevitably ideological position in a given historical moment). The beautiful subject versus the sublime object of society might be a glib way of putting this.
Topic Area Two: "Pastoral"
This is proving to be the most problematic area to define, because I find I am largely uninterested in pastoral as a genre. My pastoral is the expression of a particular form of the utopian impulse that is always in the background of the reading I do for Topic One. Pastoral as narrative function interests me (Empson's notion of the double plot) insofar as this acts both to mirror a given social situation (of "the city") and to negate it in favor of a proletarian fantasy (of "the country"). It's pretty obvious that I need to read Raymond Williams' book on this subject. But the complex of ideas I've named "pastoral" has more to do with the subject's fantasy of realizing his or her own "nature" while in relation with the society that, at least since the rise of industrial capitalism, has replaced nature. This has led me unexpectedly to the work of D.H. Lawrence, whose poetry I have written about in a paper that I presented at the Modernism Studies Association Conference in Birmingham (I also wrote about Gertrude Stein). Lawrence interests me because for him, the realization of the subject's inner nature can only come about in relation with an Other which is not a representative of the society that has conditioned everything about the subject that is not "natural" to him. Lawrence becomes the epicenter of a strain of thought about subjective authenticity that for me reaches back to Whitman, encompasses Stein and Williams, and reaches forward to the Objectivists and more difficult-to-place figures like Ronald Johnson. It also requires understanding of psychoanalysis (which provides the basic concept of what I've been calling "inner nature" under the name of the unconscious) and the ways in which psychoanalysis has been deployed both to foster a utopian reconciliation of inner nature with objective society (Marcuse) and to debunk any such reconciliation (Lacan). It seems to me that this complex of ideas, which I still find easiest to think of as "pastoral," is rooted both aesthetically and historically in modernism, and has only a tangential relationship to the English tradition of pastoral poetry (though the tropes of such poetry are constantly surfacing, often in a highly self-conscious manner, in the work of these writers).
Topic Area Three: Objectivism and After
This topic essentially becomes the second half of the pastoral topic, in which I read the work of the second-generation modernists with an eye toward giving an account of their attempts to realize a utopia that, as the name of the major movement I'm focusing on suggests, is focused on the objective world and not on the individual poetizing subject (collective subjectivity is something else again). I see Zukofsky as the central writer here, because "A" describes a complete dialectical process: reacting, with Pound and Williams, against symbolism he focuses the first half of his long poem on an objective world comprehended through Marxist dialectics. But after World War II he turns his back on the larger objective world and creates a more modest utopia based on the family romance between himself, Celia, and their son Paul. I'm nowhere near finishing "A", so this preliminary evaluation is bound to change. Oppen's work will also be important, especially because he embodies the contradictory position of a Heideggerian existentialist with Communist/materialist political commitments. There also appears to be a curious chiasmic relation between his way of interfacing politics and poetry and Zukofsky's; whereas Zukofsky at first decides that the point of writing poetry is to change the world, Oppen decides changing the world and writing poetry are incompatible modes of being. Both, arguably, renounce an activist engagement with politics (though they by no means abandon their critical political stances) in order to resume writing after WWII.
I also want to read Basil Bunting's Briggflats (you see that I want to maintain the narrow bridge between American poetry and the more idiosyncratic texts of English modernism), which has obvious pastoral connotations, and end with a consideration of Ronald Johnson, who more than any other poet I'm aware of performs the emergence of "nature" (inner and outer) in his language.
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Dining out: an unusual experience.
Newell and Jeannette Johnson undertook a mission to introduce me to some of the good restaurants in Forcalquier.
They started lasted night with "In Vino". This restaurant is a block below Credit Agricole. We went down about 40 steps to get in and found the restaurant is a large vaulted room, open plan so the kitchen is in full view. The tables were laid with nice linen and napkins.
I was told that the proprietor was formerly at the bistro in Lardiers. He had divorced, his wife continues the bistro so now there are 2 restaurants. This one continues the tradition of Lardiers in having no menu. You eat the set menu which was always excellent and unusual.
We had been told to be there at 8 and were there promptly and were the first arrivals. Soon olives, bread and very good wine were put before us. Gradually other people came. The first course did not arrive until 9, we were by then rather hungry. It was a delicate slice of tart and a salad of octopus. One plus point for me was that all the food was presented in bowls or plates so we could serve as much or little as we wanted onto our empty plates, a relief to be spared the artistically decorated "plate of food" with its predetermined portion.
A long wait then the main course excellent roast lamb and thin rondelles of potato baked in butter.
Another long wait before the desert a fruit salad mainly of figs and a chocolate mousse (not up to Rococo chocolate).
The owner/waiter was more cheerful than in the Lardier days, his new love made him smile from time to time. Unusually the staff himself, a french woman and a Mauritian woman danced out of the restaurant carrying glasses of wine for their own interval between courses, with some happy embraces. Another wait for coffee and the bill. As a guest I have no idea if it was high or low. We finally climbed the 40 steps at 11.20 and got into the car.
Newell started it and then said the throttle is not responding. He finally coaxed it to crawl up the hill into the Place Bourget. Thence in 1st and 2nd gear starting well downhill but crawling. Newell kept saying wait until we get to the dechetterie, if we get that far… We did and crawled up the hill at walking speed to arrive in St. Michel at 12.20. I was very happy, so were we all, not to have to walk all the way up that long hill.
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Biografia
Come tutti gli altri umoristi della cosiddetta Generazione del '27 (José López Rubio, Enrique Jardiel Poncela e Miguel Mihura) è stato fortemente influenzato da Ramón Gómez de la Serna.

Nel 1919 presenta la rivista teatrale Sueño del opio scritta da lui, da José de Zamora e da Tomás Pellicer, con un'impostazione decisamente avanguardista: "Un lavoro teatrale assurdo, con l'unico scopo di esporre 70 abiti assolutamente originali, contestualizzati in uno scenario arbitrario, e accompagnati da una musica deliziosamente frivola".

Collabora con numerose riviste illustrate e fu caricaturista di El Liberal e fonda il settimanale umoristico Gutiérrez. Nella Parigi degli anni venti stringe amicizia con Luis Buñuel.

Tra le copertine da lui create si distinguono quella di Bazar (1928) di Samuel Ros e quella di El muerto, su adulterio y la ironía di Antoniorrobles (1929). Lavora per un breve periodo a Hollywood (1930-1931) come sceneggiatore, proseguendo in seguito la carriera di sceneggiatore e regista nel cinema e nella televisione spagnoli dal dopoguerra fino alla morte.

Durante la Guerra Civile Spagnola, fonda, insieme a Miguel Mihura nella San Sebastián franchista, il settimanale umoristico La Ametralladora e successivamente, nella Madrid del dopoguerra, pubblica la rivista La Codorniz che riscuote un'immensa popolarità. Nel 1949 pubblica la sua Automentirobiografía, illustrata con monotonerias.

Pubblicazioni (parziale)

Filmografia

Attore
 Entre la memoria y el sueño, regia di Antonio de Lara - cortometraggio (1969)
 El chiste, regia di Eduardo Manzanos (1976)

Regista
 Un bigote para dos, co-regia con Miguel Mihura (1940)
 Canción de medianoche (1947)
 Habitación para tres (1952)
 El robot embustero - cortometraggio (1966)
 La amante estelar - cortometraggio (1968)
 Entre la memoria y el sueño - cortometraggio (1969)
 Después del tiempo (Experiencias) - cortometraggio (1969)

Sceneggiatore

Cinema
 La fruta amarga, regia di Arthur Gregor e José López Rubio (1931)
 Un bigote para dos, regia di Antonio de Lara e Miguel Mihura (1940)
 Ni pobre, ni rico, sino todo lo contrario, regia di Ignacio F. Iquino (1944)
 Barrio, regia di Ladislao Vajda (1947)
 Canción de medianoche, regia di Antonio de Lara (1947)
 Nosotros los rateros, regia di Jaime Salvador (1949)
 Habitación para tres, regia di Antonio de Lara (1952)
 Tres eran tres, regia di Eduardo García Maroto (1954)
 Congreso en Sevilla, regia di Antonio Román (1955)
 La quiniela, regia di Ana Mariscal (1960)
 Patricia mía, regia di Enrique Carreras (1961)
 Una americana en Buenos Aires, regia di George Cahan (1961)
 El balcón de la Luna, regia di Luis Saslavsky (1962)
 Torrejón City, regia di León Klimovsky (1962)
 La fuente mágica, regia di Fernando Lamas (1963)
 La pandilla de los once, regia di Pedro Lazaga (1963)
 Cuatro bodas y pico, regia di Feliciano Catalán (1963)
 Un beso en el puerto, regia di Ramón Torrado (1966)
 El robot embustero, regia di Antonio de Lara - cortometraggio (1966)
 La amante estelar, regia di Antonio de Lara - cortometraggio (1968)
 Amor a todo gas, regia di Ramón Torrado (1969)
 Entre la memoria y el sueño, regia di Antonio de Lara - cortometraggio (1969)
 Después del tiempo (Experiencias), regia di Antonio de Lara - cortometraggio (1969)
 ¿Es usted mi padre?, regia di Antonio Giménez Rico (1971)
 Addio cicogna addio (Adiós, cigüeña, adiós), regia di Manuel Summers (1971)
 Colpo grosso... grossissimo... anzi probabile, regia di Tonino Ricci (1972)
 La mujer es un buen negocio, regia di Valerio Lazarov (1977)

Televisione
 La risa española - serie TV, 1 episodio (1969)
 La comedia del domingo - serie TV, 1 episodio (1972)
 Estudio 1 - serie TV, 1 episodio (1979)
 La comedia - serie TV, episodio 1x02 (1983)

Teatro

Riconoscimenti
Medalla del Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos
 1954  – Miglior sceneggiatura per Tres eran tres (condiviso con Eduardo García Maroto, Jaime García Herranz e Ángel Falquina)

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Voci correlate
 Generazione del '27

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You are small in stature, but your unrivaled tenacity is startling. People love to refer to you as a "loose cannon," and boy do you love to pick a fight. Your competitive nature is appealing, but your volatile personality makes your date wary for the future, especially since you can't stop shaking. You might have a cocaine problem.
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You're a dominant force who is always in control. You take your career seriously, but play just as hard. Your fabulous sense of direction will come in handy when you take road trips through the country. In the midst of all this, you haven't brushed your hair since 1984.
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Home / Focus Climate Change / Montclair State Students Bring the Heat to Global Climate Strike
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Montclair State Students Bring the Heat to Global Climate Strike
By Sam Carliner
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Protesters gather in New York City for the Global Climate Strike. Hunter Ayala | The Montclarion
Montclair State University student, Michelle Rodriguez, joined an estimated four million people attending the Global Climate Strike. Rodriguez, a senior nutrition major, had not been to any protests before, but felt compelled to attend this one.
A woman in New York City holds up two signs in protest of climate change.
Hunter Ayala | The Montclarion
"In my circle, I don't think we're as involved as we could be," Rodriguez said. "I'm trying to make that change in my circle. If you're not going to do it, I want to do it by myself."
Rodriguez was not by herself. She was joined by her William Paterson University friend, Alba Bidal. Together, they were part of a protest that reportedly took place within 150 countries from all seven continents.
The crowd at the Climate Strike in Montclair on Sept. 20, 2019.
Sam Carliner | The Montclarion
The event Rodriguez and Bidal attended took place in downtown Montclair, New Jersey, at the corner of Bloomfield Avenue and Church Street. The protest, which began at 5:30 p.m., was the second protest in Montclair, New Jersey that day. An earlier protest took place that day at 10 a.m., when students from Montclair High School chose to organize a walkout.
Other young people in attendance were five students from Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, who had organized their own walkout, also at 10 a.m. that day.
(Left to right) Laila Gold, Emmy Cramer, Jordan Muhammad, Sylvie Schuetz and David Harper pose together at the Climate Strike in Montclair on Sept. 20, 2019.
The students are all members of activist organizations at their school. Jordan Muhammad and Sylvie Schutez are members of the Students for Justice Club, while David Harper, Laila Gold and Emmy Cramer are members of the Environmental Club. They all had a lot to say about their concern for climate change.
"The climate crisis is the most important issue facing our generation currently," Gold said. "As high schoolers, we really can make a difference when it comes to the climate crisis, and we need to continue making that difference until we see change."
Protesters hold signs up advocating for peace and climate change awareness.
Muhammad spoke on the importance of taking action and on the impact she feels activism has.
"Just how a teacher can change someone's life. One speech and one fact can also change someone's life," Muhammad said. "I just so strongly believe that we can't give up on people."
The students said they planned their walkout in less than two weeks, and will continue to spread activism by hosting events such as clothing drives, trash pickups and events that help with voter registration.
The climate strike has been widely coordinated by young people. It began with Swedish student, Greta Thunberg, who skipped school every Friday to protest climate change. This was the second globally coordinated strike. The first took place earlier this year in March.
A female protester holds up her fist and a newspaper during the global climate change strike.
Despite being a movement generally led by young people, those in attendance at the Montclair, New Jersey protest were mostly middle-aged adults and seniors. One senior, Virginia Scott-Fleming, was at the event with her husband and commented that she felt the turnout was large.
Virginia Scott-Fleming and her husband show off their signs at the Climate Strike on Montclair on Sept. 20, 2019.
"It's very popular," Scott-Fleming said. "Usually there's about 10 people standing here, marching for peace, but this is for climate."
Many of those at the protest directly criticized the government for not doing enough to respond to climate change. Some people waved signs calling for Gov. Phil Murphy to divest from fossil fuels. A representative from New Jersey Peace Action gave a speech in which he provided statistics on the U.S. military's whopping number of carbon dioxide emissions and criticized the media's lack of coverage on climate change.
"To talk about something, to talk about a cause that you really care about and want to support, it's all talk," Rodriguez said. "You have to actually be physically here or do whatever you can."
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Queen at Live Aid
On Saturday 13th of July 2019 was the anniversary of Queen's take over of Live Aid, and it's hard to believe it has been 35 years ago as well. I remember the day myself being 12years old at the time, I pretty much begged my Parent's to let me watch it on telly. You kinda knew that Live Aid was going to be big indeed, but nobody knew how big. It's weird that all these years later we are still talking about the event. Queen blew me away that night and my goodness I enjoyed every single moment of it.
Freddie Mercury had the whole world in the palm of his hand, and seeing it in the movie Bohemian Rhapsody brought it back in Technicolor for me totally. He along with his band members Brian, Roger and John really stole Live Aid and went down as legends. It also made me truly realize what a hole in the world Freddie Mercury's death on the 24th November 1991 really has left in my heart as well as other fans. It truly makes me believe that you need to make every moment count in your life and in the world as well.
Yes Freddie Mercury was some kind of supernova that took the world by storm, and Live Aid was surely a big part of that too. The performance was mind blowing and Freddie's voice is truly heaven sent. I ended up watching Queen's performance on YouTube on Saturday and the tears did flow. It gave me chills and also brought back a part of my childhood as well. And I will never ever forget it as long as I live upon this earth. Yes I did clap along to Radio Ga Ga and my heart was in my mouth when they left the stage.
I must admit my favourite parts are the dance with the camera man and ready FREDDIE, not forgetting his mightly interplay with the crowd and his thank you all's in We are the Champions. But it is also his performance with Brian and a guitar later in the evening, that also is quite magical. And seeing Freddie in that white outfit truly is breathtaking indeed. Just knowing as well that his Doctor told him not too sing makes it even more memorable and tragic to know, that in only a short couple of years the world would lose Freddie Mercury at 45years old.
I am 45years old in October and I can not begin to imagine dying at my age. I wonder what went through his mind to know he would never make old bones ? I do know that he had such strength and never complained about the pain he must of felt. To me that makes him an angel in my book and everytime I watch Queen's Live Aid performance I think what a legend indeed.
It also makes me realize that at the time AIDS did not care who you were or who it killed. It was also as a kid a very scary time, because AIDS was everywhere in the media, and people had such small minds about the disease.To such an extense that many of those who suffered from the disease did so in secrecy like Freddie Mercury did.
I will leave you with some photos gotten off Facebook of Freddie Mercury and Queen at Live Aid. Truly a moment in music history that changed lives forever.
Ciao for now…or should it be AOOO
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