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Han-earl Park (guitar)
Nick Didkovsky (guitar)
Catherine Sikora (saxophones)
In a field of experimentation and free music, Eris 136199 stands as singular.
— John Pietaro (New York City Jazz Record)
Exquisitely constructed, spontaneously messed-up, endless depth, kind of like letting an insane brain surgeon in through your ear.
— Dave Foxall (aJazzNoise)
Peculiar Velocities
Eris 136199 is back! The trio's third disc, and first studio album is available for preview and pre-order! [Listen and find out more…]
Eris 136199 plays on the crossroads of noise, melody, rhythm, space, density, contrast, synchronicity, asymmetry, serendipity and contradiction. Eris 136199 is the corporeal, cyborg virtuosity of constructor and guitarist Han-earl Park; the noisy, unruly complexity of composer, computer artist and guitarist Nick Didkovsky; and the no-nonsense melodic logic of composer and saxophonist Catherine Sikora.
Described by Brian Morton as "a musical philosopher… a delightful shape-shifter", Han-earl Park is drawn to real-time cyborg configurations in which artifacts and bodies collide. He has performed with some of the finest practitioners of improvised music, leads Sirene 1009 with Dominic Lash, Mark Sanders and Caroline Pugh, and is part of Numbers with Richard Barrett.
A composer who enjoys blurry boundaries, Nick Didkovsky founded the avant-rock big band Doctor Nerve, and is a member of Swim This with Gerry Hemingway and Michael Lytle. He is a pioneer of small-systems computer music, and has composed music for ensembles including Bang On A Can All Stars, ETHEL, and the Meridian Arts Ensemble.
Catherine Sikora is "a free-blowing player's player with a spectacular harmonic imagination and an evolved understanding of the tonal palette of the saxophone" (Chris Elliot, Seacoast Online). She has a long-standing duo project with Eric Mingus, and has performed as part of ensembles led by Elliott Sharp, François Grillot, Ross Hammond, and Ursel Schlicht.
Together, Park, Didkovsky and Sikora forge an improvisative space where melody can be melody, noise can be noise, meter can be meter, metal becomes metal, bluegrass turns to bluegrass, jazz transforms into jazz, all there, all necessary without imploding under idiomatic pressures.
Side effects of Eris 136199 may include temporary deafness, involuntary teleportation, spontaneous combustion, and molecular implosion. In addition, lab animals have been shown to dance without skill to the sound of double guitars and saxophone. …But you'll love what it does to your mind-body! 😉
October 15, 2020: Peculiar Velocities (BAF002)
November 17, 2020: Eris 136199's latest album is out now (compact disc and digital download)! Eris 136199 is the chaotic snap'n'pop of Han-earl Park's cyborg virtuosity, the symphonies of power…
April 6, 2020: Eris 136199 will be releasing Peculiar Velocities!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hanearlpark/eris-136199-effortlessly-strange-improvised-music €1,200 pledged of €650 goal. 184% funded. 44 backers. You did it! Thanks to you, our awe-inspiring backers, we will master the recording, create the artwork, write the liner notes, press the…
March 28, 2020: Eris 136199: stubborn weirdness and gleeful mischief
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hanearlpark/eris-136199-effortlessly-strange-improvised-music Back a few months ago, while reflecting on the mix, I wrote: Listening to a static mix of #eris136199's August recording. I love the final track: it's, by turns dreamy and…
March 25, 2020: Eris 136199: effortlessly strange improvised music
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hanearlpark/eris-136199-effortlessly-strange-improvised-music Eris 136199 is back! help release our third album! [Kickstarter page…] Last year, during our second European tour, Eris 136199 went into Hackney Road Studios in London to record our next…
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Peculiar Velocities (BAF002) [details…]
Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar), Catherine Sikora (saxophone) and Nick Didkovsky (guitar).
Track listing: Ballad of Tensegrity I (≥ 5:12), Ballad of Tensegrity II (2:28), Peculiar Velocities I (3:46), Peculiar Velocities II (3:36), Sleeping Dragon (5:22), D-Loop I (≥ 6:16), D-Loop II (5:13), Polytely I (≥ 5:01), Polytely II: Breakdown (5:33), Anagnorisis I (2:09), Anagnorisis II (2:19). Total duration ≥ 46:54.
© + ℗ 2020 Han-earl Park.
Eris 136199 (BAF001) [details…]
Track listing: Therianthropy I (≥ 3:43), Therianthropy II (8:56), Therianthropy III (3:55), Therianthropy IV (6:30), Adaptive Radiation I (6:44), Adaptive Radiation II (8:48), Adaptive Radiation III (5:54), Universal Greebly (10:58), Hypnagogia I (8:03), Hypnagogia II (4:45). Total duration ≥ 68:25.
Anomic Aphasia (SLAMCD 559) [details…]
Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar), Catherine Sikora (tenor and soprano saxophones), Nick Didkovsky (guitar; tracks 1 and 5), and Josh Sinton (baritone saxophone and bass clarinet; tracks 2–4).
Track listing: Monopod (27:19), Pleonasm (Metis 9) (17:08), Flying Rods (Metis 9) (7:41), Hydraphon (7:34), StopCock (10:54). Total duration: 70:33.
© 2015 Han-earl Park. ℗ 2015 SLAM Productions.
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"Challenging and phenomenal works with the musicians playing off of each others ideas…. A beautiful noise."
— KFJC 89.7 FM
"The structure that emerges; it moves into this almost logical but magical whole."
— Corey Mwamba (Freeness, BBC Radio 3)
"Putting this unlikely lineup together was almost as brilliant as the recording they have produced…. 'Free' is a barely sufficient to describe this approach, as the trios explore various angular constructs and effects. The vocabulary of sounds here is as broad as it is unconventional."
— Mike Borella (Avant Music News)
"Impressive in scale, overwhelming in execution, it's a cyclic frenzy of fragmented sounds without an ounce of entropy, yet somehow with a sense of clear movement and progression."
「彼らは一緒になって、描き上げたばかりの集合肖像画に点を穿ち、所々に飛沫を散らし、時には引き裂く。そして切り取り、並べ替え、分割する。」
— Cisco Bradley (JazzTokyo)
"A radical kind of music."
— Dolf Mulder (Vital Weekly)
"Atmospheric as to become almost frightening."
— Ken Waxman (The New York City Jazz Record)
"Ein glorioser Bastard aus Noise und süßer Träumerei."
— Rigobert Dittmann (Bad Alchemy)
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Improviser, guitarist and constructor Han-earl Park has been crossing borders and performing fuzzily idiomatic, on occasion experimental, always traditional, open improvised musics for twenty years. He has performed in clubs, theaters, art galleries, concert halls, and (ad-hoc) alternative spaces across Europe, Korea and the USA.
Park is the mastermind behind ensembles including Eris 136199 with Catherine Sikora and Nick Didkovsky; and Sirene 1009 with Dominic Lash, Mark Sanders and Caroline Pugh; and has a duo with Richard Barrett. He is the constructor of the machine improviser io 0.0.1 beta++, and instigator of Metis 9, a playbook of improvisative tactics. He has performed with Wadada Leo Smith, Paul Dunmall, Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, Pauline Oliveros, Josh Sinton, Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, Gino Robair, Tim Perkis, Andrew Drury, Pat Thomas and Franziska Schroeder.
His ensembles have appeared at festivals including Jazz em Agosto (Lisbon), Freedom of the City (London), Brilliant Corners (Belfast), ISIM (New York), dialogues festival (Edinburgh) and Sonic Acts (Amsterdam). His recordings have been released by labels including SLAM Productions and DUNS Limited Edition. Park taught improvisation at University College Cork, and founded and curated Stet Lab, a space for improvised music in Cork.
"Guitarist Han-earl Park is a musical philosopher…. Expect unexpected things from Park, who is a delightful shape-shifter…."
— Brian Morton (Point of Departure)
"Though short, percussive, hard-to-notate sounds dominate Han-earl Park's sound, he does utilize the totality of the guitar's sonorities—just not in the proportions demanded by the nostalgic (retrospective, reactionary, etc.) owners of major media…."
— Stanley Zappa (The New York City Jazz Record)
Nick Didkovsky is a guitarist, composer, and computer music programmer. His non-didactic approach to combining human and machine creativity is a unique musical fingerprint. Didkovsky has composed new music for Kathleen Supove, Ethel, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Meridian Arts Ensemble, New Century Players, ARTE Quartett, his own bands Doctor Nerve, Vomit Fist, Häßliche Luftmasken, and others. His compositions and guitar performances appear on more than 50 records.
For over 30 years, Doctor Nerve has fueled Didkovsky's intricate compositions with the energy of rock, often challenging the boundaries between heavy metal, contemporary music, and improvisation. Doctor Nerve has released nine albums of more than 50 of his compositions. The band has performed at numerous festivals including FIMAV, the Moers Festival, Musique Action, Creative Time, MIMI Festival, and 'Whitney Live' at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
As a guitarist and composer, Didkovsky was a member of the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, contributing twelve compositions to its repertoire. Didkovsky's electric guitar compositions continue to be performed by newer ensembles such as Dither Quartet, E-Werk, and Fracture Guitar Quartet, and by soloists such as Kevin Gallagher, Marco Cappelli, and Wiek Hijmans. As a soloist, he has performed at numerous events such as Bang On A Can festival, Guitarévolutions in Montreal, New Ballet festival at the Miller Theatre, and John Zorn's East Asian Bar Bands. His 2015 Residency at The Stone in NYC resulted in numerous premiere performances of new works.
Collaborating with computer music pioneer Phil Burk, Didkovsky began developing Java Music Specification Language in 1997.
"Musicians (and listeners) who approach Didkovsky's work find that part of the challenge derives from his mastery of unpredictability."
— Linda Leseman (The Village Voice)
Tenor and soprano saxophonist, improviser and composer Catherine Sikora was born in West Cork, Ireland. Self taught initially, she moved to New York City to study and play with great improvisers. Sikora works in a broad range of settings, from highly complex composed music, to folk songs, to free improvisation.
Regular collaborations include those with Eric Mingus, Brian Chase, Han-earl Park, Enrique Haneine, Christopher Culpo, Ursel Schlicht and Ross Hammond, as well as actively pursuing solo performance. Sikora has toured in the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico and Australia. She was a featured soloist in Eric Mingus' radical reimagining of Tommy by the Who presented at Australia's Adelaide Festival in 2015, and on the critically acclaimed Mode records release The Dreamkeeper (2017), a recording of the poems of Langston Hughes featuring Eric Mingus and David Amram, and was artist-in-residence at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. Sikora traveled to Kassel, Germany during Documenta 14 in July 2017 to present concerts and masterclasses, and collaborated with refugee musicians to present a joint concert with an intercultural program with pianist Ursel Schlicht.
SCatherine's first solo album Jersey, a set of improvisations for tenor saxophone, was released on Relative Pitch Records in July 2016, and a second solo work Warrior on soprano sax, was released in August 2019. In 2018, Sikora was featured on five new releases; duo recording 'untitled: after' with Brooklyn based drummer Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Drums and Drones), Chrysalis, a duo with Eric Mingus, The Spectral Life of Things with Paris based pianist Christopher Culpo, 'Eris 136199' trio with Han-earl Park and Nick Didkovsky, and The Mind's Mural with Enrique Haneine and his quartet.
"Sikora is a virtuosic firebrand whose star is on the rise"
— The Brooklyn Rail
"Catherine Sikora est une révélation, son jeu oblique, sensible et lumineux offrant un contrepoint idéal aux élucubrations crépusculaires de ses partenaires. Le ténor adopte une approche décidément tonale et mélodique, et néanmoins exploratoire. D'un bout à l'autre un set sans concession aucune, dont on ressort essoré, mais ravi que de telles expériences soient tentées. Art music"
— Jazz Magazine, France


DescriptionIn these lessons for the intermediate fingerstyle guitarist Dave Van Ronk presents his arrangements of blues and a classic rag. The book includes a conversation with Dave, a discography, 6 tunes in notation and tablature, and 3 CDs teaching each tune phrase by phrase. LESSON ONE: A blues in 12/8 with Leroy Carr´s Midnight Hour Blues. Blood Red Moon follows played in a dropped D tuning. The lesson ends with Blind Lemon Jefferson´s One Kind Favor. LESSON TWO: Sunday Street is an original Dave Van Ronk song and is an excellent example of Dave´s arranging skills. Four choruses are taught demonstrating how this tune can develop. Bessie Smith´s classic blues You´ve Been A Good Old Wagon is taught in the key of E. LESSON THREE: Dave´s arrangement of St. Louis Tickle was the first great challenge for fingerpickers interested in classic ragtime. This four sectioned rag is played in the keys of C and F. It is an excellent example of contemporary ragtime guitar.


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Affirmations Unveiled: We're Not Convincing Ourselves
Joseph Alai (Coaching) , 05 October 2019, 20:00
I was preparing for tonight's Specific Person MasterClass Workshop -- and I had a thought. I haven't had a lot of time lately to think because of the events coming up (Radio, Workshops), but someone asked me the question in the VIP Chat, "How often should I keep repeating my affirmations until I believe them?"
It's an important question -- and one that I've not heard the correct answer come out of anyone's mouth. An Affirmation should be used to impress the subconscious mind. We are not meant to brute-force hack our mind to create a new groove in our brain by repeating an affirmation. We're not creating a pathway. That's not the purpose.
The purpose is to impress the subconscious mind. Ask yourself this: when I imagine, am I repetitively slamming it into my brain to create a new neural pathway? I hope now. The idea is to quiet the analytical mind and impress the image of the wish fulfilled on the subconscious. That can take one try.
At first, years ago, when reading Napoleon Hill, I was given the impression that I had to make this affirmation sink into my brain, and repeat it until it made me sick. Then I could "convince" myself of the new affirmation -- and it would take root and manifest. But that was not my experience.
Listening to Neville's lecture today, "It Is Within", he backs up the claim that we do not have to jam phrases or imaginal acts repeatedly into our mind. It's not about making a new neural-pathway. It's about opening up the subconscious for a moment, by subduing the analytical mind, and allowing a single, clear, concise thought enter into that subconscious.
If we can do this, Awareness does the rest. We may not, within the first minute, believe our new belief. But eventually Awareness will shift the world. It will move the world in such a way that whatever your new belief is, will take root. If your belief is, "I am wealthy", don't expect to believe you're wealthy unless you are wealthy.
But eventually Awareness will move in such a way that it will give you money -- and THEN you will have that belief. The world will be moved to give you the belief. You won't just suddenly believe it by repeating it. Just get one, nice, clear affirmation and the seed will be planted to create that belief inside of you. This goes for anything.
You concisely create a new belief in the tense of already believing it, or being it. Such as, "I receive money easily", or, "I have lovely relationships, consistent with integrity and trust".
We can do the following
Define what we want
Write it down in the present tense (I AM, I have, I do, I receive)
Find a time when you can relax for a moment, when you're not inundated by negative thoughts or anxiety.
Repeat this phrase over and over until you feel the satisfaction of its' truth. This could take 1 to 10 to 100 times. All we need to do is feel its' satisfaction
You will watch as the world will begin to shift to eventually make you take on that new belief.
Sometimes I'll play the affirmations or assumptions in a recording, and listen to them until I feel saturated from it. I'll feel content with it. I don't necessarily believe it, but I believe that I am satisfied by it and that the side effect of that saturation is the eventual fulfillment of that imaginal act. It may take 20 minutes. It may take 3 days, 20 minutes each. It may take 20 minutes in the day, and then at night, for 3 days. Whatever it takes. But then that's it. Awareness will take over.
An affirmation is just another imaginal act, excluding visualization. Treat it as such. All aspects of our imagination are creative. So impress the subconscious mind by imagining and letting go, just as you would with anything else... And watch as the world spins to give you your new belief.
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Елена Владимировна Воронина (, род. 5 мая 1990) — украинская фехтовальщица-саблистка, чемпионка мира, призёр Олимпийских игр и чемпионатов мира и Европы. Закончила НТУ "ХПИ".

Биография
Родилась в 1990 году. В 2009 и 2010 годах становилась чемпионкой мира среди юниоров.

В 2013 году стала чемпионкой мира и серебряным призёром чемпионата Европы. В 2014 году стала обладательницей бронзовых медалей чемпионатов мира и Европы. В 2015 году стала серебряным призёром чемпионата мира и обладательницей двух бронзовых медалей чемпионата Европы.

Награды
 Орден княгини Ольги ІІІ степени (4 октября 2016) — за достижение высоких спортивных результатов на ХХХІ летних Олимпийских играх в Бразилии, проявленные самоотверженность и волю к победе

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Ссылки
 Профиль на сайте Европейской конфедерации фехтования

Фехтовальщики Украины
Серебряные призёры летних Олимпийских игр 2016 года
Фехтовальщики на летних Олимпийских играх 2016 года

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The clonal colony encompasses 43 hectares (106 acres) and has over 40,000 stems (trunks), which die individually and are replaced by new stems growing from its roots.
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9:40 AM, 18th July 2018
Generation Rent wants unlimited tenancies and no sales of rental properties to FTBs
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Dan Wilson Craw, director of Generation Rent, had an article in CityMetric, "an arm of the New Statesman", last week entitled "Here's why government plans for longer tenancies don't go far enough".
Now that Craw has seen the reduction in the number of rental properties as landlords have left the market, because of S24 and other attacks, he wants to ban the sale of rental properties to first time buyers or any other owner-occupiers (except for sales to sitting tenants – which is pure fantasy).
The article starts with "When the modern private rental market was devised as part of the 1988 Housing Act, flexibility was the theme. If a landlord decided they no longer wanted to be a landlord, then they could use Section 21 of the Act to evict their tenants with two months' notice, with no reason necessary, and cash in their investment."
After criticising the Deregulation Act 2015 which made revenge evictions illegal he continued with:
"Last week the government published its long-awaited consultation on longer tenancies. It proposes to replace the 1988 model with three-year tenancies, retaining the ability of the tenant to move out after six months, but the government has undermined this progress by letting amateur landlords keep their flexibility, allowing them to take back a property in the three years if they want to sell or move back in. According to last year's EHS, 63% of private sector evictions take place for these reasons.
"A three-year tenancy with limited grounds for eviction should at least give tenants greater confidence to complain, but that's not enough. They should also have the knowledge that, so long as they meet their legal obligations, the home is theirs. If landlords can evict a blameless tenant, the rental market will keep failing to provide the certainty we associate with home.
Ending Section 21 would still allow evictions if a tenant breaks the contract. If a landlord wants to sell, that's fine, but they should sell to another landlord, with the tenants staying put – or to the tenants themselves. If they want somewhere to live, they can rent."
If Section 21 were abolished, all tenancies would become periodic at the end of the initial period – whether this was 6 months or 3 years – and the landlord would not be able to evict the tenant except for rent arrears or other breach of contract. So an owner who moved away for a short-term work contract and let his or her home might never be allowed back in and might have a sitting tenant for life. And all landlords might have to sell with a sitting tenant.
Ending Section 21 would create lifetime tenancies again. It could just be the last straw that drives landlords out of the market. It would remove their right to deal with their properties as they wished. Allowing themselves to be stuck with a sitting tenant would reduce the value of their property, just as it did in most of the last century. So landlords are more likely to evict their tenants before this right was removed, and sell with vacant possession, or simply leave them empty if there were no mortgage to pay.
The fact that his bright ideas would further reduce the number of existing rental properties and further deter the supply of new ones does not seem to have occurred to Craw. He is campaigning to reduce supply and increase rents. Brilliant!
In November 2016 Craw was unconcerned about Section 24. He was on the Eddie Nestor radio programme as Generation Rent's Policy and Communications Manager.
Eddie had put it to him that if landlords' costs are increased through Osborne's levy on mortgage interest under Section 24, those who "stay in the game" will just pass them on to people who rent.
DWC said: "Well, the rents that we are paying at the moment are set by the excessive demand compared to under-supply of of homes, so landlords are already charging as much as they can get away with so if they tried to charge anything more then you'd probably find that there's other landlords who can charge less and and tenants can just decide to move and find a landlord who doesn't have a mortgage to pay and in fact as you mentioned with the Treasury statement that the majority of landlords aren't actually affected by these changes."
It sounded, painfully, as if this was the first time he had thought about the levy being passed on to the end-user – just like every other tax is.
It was as sensible and coherent as Natalie "Brainfade" Bennett announcing the Green Party's attack on landlords' mortgage interest in their 2015 manifesto, which Osborne introduced a few weeks later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCH7WgxT2yI People were still commenting under this two weeks ago.
Osborne, a man who rose without trace, famously could not multiply 7 by 8.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOGMCRDOEB8
The moral is that you don't have to be clever to be a disrupter, in fact being clever is probably a deterrent. They all seem incapable of seeing the harm that their actions would cause, like a stupid child who pokes a stick into a bees' nest.
David Lawrenson
11:42 AM, 18th July 2018
Simply amazing isn't it.
This chap needs to go back to page 1 of any economic text book and read about demand and supply.
And also read some economic history to see what happened last time the PRS was so restricted. Welcome back Rachman!
PS Well done Property118 for your assessment of the loony "Onward" report by the Conservative group led by the clueless Neil O Brien MP
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12:21 PM, 18th July 2018
Generation Rent previously had interesting sponsors in the form of Nationwide Foundation, who are related to the dear Nationwide building society.
I think the society became a bit embarrassed that some of the things Gen Rent called for were not in their interests.
Here is the link to my 2014 piece on this...
http://www.lettingfocus.com/blogs/2014/12/nationwide-foundation-generation-rent-odd-bed-fellows/
Whiteskifreak Surrey
Honestly - who allows brains like that publishing anything, except on their FB page? Why the country has to put up with such idiocy?
"Ending Section 21 would still allow evictions if a tenant breaks the contract. If a landlord wants to sell, that's fine, but they should sell to another landlord, with the tenants staying put – or to the tenants themselves. If they want somewhere to live, they can rent." But it is not what idiot GO&Co wanted! They wanted to sell to FTB (pity it did not materialise... - but it is hardly a surprise.). The whole thing, like Brexshit is in shambles.
Devon Landlord
To be frank, I am beginning (some would say only just realised it) to loose faith in Conservative policy regarding housing. Perhaps the people who write these 'desires' for housing equity have not heard of the law of unexpected consequences. Landlord power has shrunk over the last few years to an extent that many are reducing portfolios or giving up all together. The landlord is the one with the burden not the tenant. So many rules exist now that it is becoming more complicated to rent as a tenant and let as a landlord than ever before. Landlording is a business. We landlords know that. The Government still treats us as though it is not and the deeper the new tax initiatives on mortgage relief bite into small profit margins the greater the number of landlords who will find it impossible to continue providing homes for people. I have tenants who have been with me for years and all are on a statutory periodic basis after the initial six month AST. There is no problem with this for me or them. They are good people and I want them to stay. What I do not want is someone who abuses me and my property. I want a way to evict them in the most cost effective way. I do not want my whole portfolio profit going down the drain with no protection in a long winded and increasingly complicated eviction process.
It is about time the Conservative Government acted like conservatives and supported those who make provision to home those who can't or don't want to get on the property ladder themselves. The section 21 notice has proven its worth. Landlords do not use it willy-nilly. In running a business you want to keep your good customers (tenants) and you look after them. It is about time the powers that be started to look after those who do the looking after and stop putting stupid and ill conceived obstacles in their path.
The Government must reconsider the position they take regarding landlording as a legitimate business without going down the road of incorporation and reinstate tax relief on BTL mortgages. This will enable more landlords to stabilize rents and invest more into their properties and YES, make a profit! That is why business does things unless of course you want a corrupt non profit socialist strategy which ultimately will end in chaos and neglect. In this situation everyone is the looser.
Reply to the comment left by Devon Landlord at 19/07/2018 - 10:23
Importantly the government also needs to realise that if they want the criminals posing as landlords out of the sector, they must properly resource the local authorities to police the sector and identify and route out the criminals.
The laws and powers are already there, but they are useless without people who can enforce them.
Very succinctly put.
If you don't mind I'll send this to my local MP (Con.) although most Conservative MP are preoccupied with Brexit navel gazing.
DALE ROBERTS
After the horror of "housing" a nightmare tenant who felt just as entitled to not pay rent, trash my property, ignore utility bills and scam benefits from the Council it has given me huge pleasure to refuse to tenant my property again. Especially as it took 8 horrible months to evict her - whilst she enjoyed all the protective legislation afforded her which she manipulated like the professional rogue tenant she was - aided and abetted by Council who advised her to await the Bailiffs. In other words a Section 21 is not a guarantee of getting a property back. It's merely the first attempt to do so but has no binding force. It can and is ignored by a tenant.
My property is now empty and pristine and will soon be sold.
I lost over GBP20 000.00 with this tenant but it resulted in her having a CCJ registered against her, a termination of her benefits payments and, hopefully, no chance of her being able to scam a landlord again. She really should be in jail for deliberate theft.
Dan Wilson Craw and his ilk are the drivers behind the slew of discriminatory regulations against private landlords and therefore the drivers behind the hardening of attitudes by private landlords.
The only losers are tenants.
I'm astounded Dan cannot figure this out himself but then again ....
Reply to the comment left by DALE ROBERTS at 19/07/2018 - 22:28
Quite!
The TV programme, "Nightmare Tenants Slum Landlords" should be compulsory viewing for the likes of Dan Craw and Neil O Brien MP. And they should be forced not to skip the Nightmare Tenant parts. Also, a training week with Paul Shamplina and Ben Reeve Lewis and me to see the reality on the ground of how the private rented sector really works - and which parts do not. Then force them to pledge to put in place proper policy and resources that will work in the PRS, not designed to win votes from the dull and disinterested.
And please end this endless attempts to please the likes of Tory backers, Aviva, L&G and the other Build to Rent corporates at the expense of the small landlords.
PRS Advice and Consulting
Reply to the comment left by David Lawrenson at 20/07/2018 - 07:59
"......... likes of Tory backers, Aviva, L&G and the other Build to Rent corporates................"
but it is these who swell Tory coffers, and more importantly hand out fat-salaried, non-exec Directorships when a Minister leaves power.
That's also why most MPs toe the line and not rock the Tory boat as it jeopardises their chances of getting a ministerial job.
Simon Williams
22:44 PM, 21st July 2018
As well as being a stupid idea on economic grounds, any proposal to restrict sales of rental properties in the way proposed is highly likely to fail on legal grounds. The European Convention on Human Rights guarantees the right to freedom of personal property - and disposal has been held to be a fundamental aspect of that right. If the State was to impose a huge disposal restriction that was almost certain substantially to devalue the asset in question, it would likely need to grant compensation and the whole law may fail in any event on proportionality grounds. There are likely to be fundamental arguments around retrospectivity too, if the law was to apply to properties purchased before any such law was enacted. We do need to take seriously the rantings of these "teenage scribblers" because their ideas are often picked up by the Labour party, but this is one idea that would not survive 10 minutes of civil service scrutiny.
There is a distinction, by the way, with the law which requires selling freeholders to offer first refusal to leaseholders. In that case, the leaseholder must pay market value and if the leaseholder doesn't want to buy, the freeholder has complete freedom to sell to anyone else.
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Health agencies improve public vaccine approval amid nation's second offensive against virus
Vaccination mobilization
Hu Yuwei
In-Depth reporter covering COVID-19 vaccines and health, Tibetan issue, China-ASEAN relations, among others.
and Chen Shasha Published: Jan 04, 2021 09:33 PM
Medical workers check out people's health condition before vaccination at a temporary vaccination site in Chaoyang district, Beijing, on Monday. Photo: Li Hao/GT
With China's first domestically produced COVID-19 vaccine getting conditional approval for general use, local health systems throughout China have unveiled public vaccination campaigns starting with the high-risk groups, aiming to administer shots to millions of people before the travel rush of Spring Festival holidays.
Immunological experts called such a mass inoculation in a short period the second phase of the national offensive against the coronavirus, which requires enhanced public health communication to persuade people to take shots as early as possible in order to make it an effective remedy to prevent infections in China.
People line up according to instructions to enter the vaccination site. Photo: Li Hao/GT
Mass vaccination campaign
Multiple regions across China including capital Beijing have kicked off their first round of free mass COVID-19 vaccination amid sporadic cases in winter, setting up hundreds of temporary vaccination sites to offer doses to high-risk groups such as medical, cold-chain and port workers, to meet the target of getting 50 million people immunized against the virus before the Spring Festival travel rush, which sees world's largest human migration every year.
In preparation for the mass inoculation, the National Health Commission has formulated standards for the construction of vaccination sites, and detailed plans for vaccine storage and transportation, adverse reaction monitoring, and reporting facilities.
To improve data recording and sharing, provinces are now able to report their daily COVID-19 vaccination data and vaccine tracking statistics to the national immunization planning information system, a national health official said at an internal training session on mass vaccination on December 15, 2020.
Officials are required to ensure high-level protection of privacy during the vaccination campaign, and make the public aware of the vaccine type and validity, according to the training memo exclusively obtained by the Global Times.
More than 1.6 million doses of vaccines for emergency use have been administered nationwide by the end of 2020, with data showing a good safety record, according to the memo.
The National Health Commission is sending COVID-19 vaccination steering groups to each province for inducting personnel and inspecting the first round of mass inoculation.
In Yanqing district of Beijing, for example, the local community health service center has conducted three rounds of vaccination and first-aid training sessions, together with a mass vaccination emergency drill in accordance with the guidelines, the Global Times learned from a staff of a local health service institution.
A medical worker shows the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Sinopharm. Photo: Li Hao/GT
Dealing with hesitancy
The Global Times visited the largest COVID-19 vaccination site in Beijing's Chaoyang district on Monday, and saw people lining up for their first dose of the recently approved COVID-19 vaccine developed by Sinopharm.
A young worker from the logistics industry, who was excited to get the dose, told the Global Times that most of his colleagues, especially those dealing with cold-chain food, had signed up for the vaccination voluntarily. "I have long been looking forward to getting the shot, as many of us hope we can earn more money after being vaccinated," he said.
Despite the high expectation of many people, some demonstrated hesitancy due to concerns over vaccine safety and necessity.
Research indicates that the herd immunity threshold for the novel coronavirus is about 70 percent, which means at least 75 percent of the population should be vaccinated.
Chief immunologist at the Chinese CDC Wang Qinghua said joining the mass vaccination effort is every citizen's obligation to prevent the contagious disease, which experts said is a strong signal of China's determination to reinforce its hard-won success in the virus fight.
The Chinese CDC began a probe into public vaccine acceptance as early as October, although the results are yet to be released.
A recent online survey conducted by a Shanghai-based vaccine expert, Tao Lina, in mid-December found that 25 percent of nearly 1,000 participants had hesitation and low confidence in vaccines, which experts believe can stymy inoculation efforts.
Some participants said that they felt it was not necessary to take the shots considering the virus is well-controlled in China.
A civil servant in Jiaxing, East China's Zhejiang Province, which is the first in the country to gradually roll out COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use in October, told the Global Times that the local civil service system has started to implement mandatory vaccinations.
"But some people still have concerns, such as whether the vaccine will aggravate other existing diseases, so some people cited allergies or pregnancy as excuse to avoid the vaccination," said the civil servant.
A man gets his first dose of COVID-19 vaccine in a compartment. Photo: Li Hao/GT
Experts suggested that addressing public concerns and giving clear information could encourage more people to get COVID-19 vaccines.
The public should be well-informed about the advantages and potential risks of COVID-19 vaccines, and the authority can do so by using community-based campaigns and information brochures or other media channels to highlight the significance of vaccination, Tao, also a former Shanghai disease prevention and control employee, told the Global Times on Sunday. "People need to be made aware that the overall benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks for everyone, and the government should not just focus on a grand idea such as making contribution to the national herd immunity," said Tao.
Sub-regions and counties have initiated COVID-19 vaccine promotion campaigns in the local community, which experts said can boost public's acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Medical workers check the temperature of people waiting for COVID-19 vaccine doses at a vaccination site in Shijingshan district of Beijing on Monday. Photo: Li Hao/GT
The government of Shizhaipu town of Central China's Henan Province has set up a special vaccine communication team to post leaflets at the entrance of the township health centers and village clinics, and inform parents of the necessity and safety of COVID-19 vaccination at school.
The Shizhaipu county government has also posted banners on the main roads to encourage more residents to get vaccinated, media reported.
So far, the town has distributed more than 600 leaflets, posted more than 40 pieces of knowledge cards, and sent more than 1,000 private messages to local people amid efforts for wider inoculation.
(Zhang Yutong contributed to the report)
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Sinbad ran to knock Bryn out of the way, but before he was half way to her when it hit her. When the smoke cleared a man stood between Bryn and Turok. He was about Sinbad's age and height with blonde hair and the build of a warrior. His armor was golden with a sun on the breastplate and one on the hilt of his sword.
"Still playing the faithful servant, Apollo." Turok said addressing the man standing between him and his daughters.
"You can not stop me." Turok said laughing at them.
"No, father, but together we can." Bryn said placing her hand on Apollo's arm as his sword began to take on a golden glow.
"That is not possible." Turok yelled forming a shield around him.
Apollo pointed the sword at Turok and released the energy at him. It dissolved the shield and knocked Turok out of the sky. Bryn sagged against Apollo as Turok disappeared, from the using so muck energy on defeating Turok. As more men dressed in similar armor to Apollo quickly surrounded him and Bryn. The crew moved closer to Bryn only to be meet by swords.
"That is close enough, Captain." Apollo said as he motioned one of the men to take Rumina as Bryn lost her hold on the spell and wrapped his arm around Bryn's waist to steady her.
"All I want is my crew member be returned to me and we will leave you alone." Sinbad said ready to rip his arm off Bryn's waist.
"I suggest that you all leave Turok will be returning soon." Apollo said lifting Bryn up to carry, to reserve her energy and turned to leave.
"Apollo, you can not let Bryn return Rumina's powers to her." Dim Dim said trying to buy more time to think of a way to stop this.
"Leave here, old man, Turok hates you more than he hates Bryn with very good reason." Apollo warned before he and his men started to glow.
"No." Sinbad yelled run towards the disappearing figure only to disappear with them.


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Jesus practiced 6 core habits that powered His entire ministry and then the ministry of His disciples long after He's gone. They are… Holy Spirit P.O.W.E.R.
• Holy Spirit Dependance in His humanity// The resources Jesus had are the same we have.
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• Obedience to a Kingdom Agenda// God what are you up to today? Can I be a part of it?
• Work out the Word// Hear. Read. Study. Memorise. Meditate.
• Elevate the Father// Does your life regularly point people to Jesus?
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AUT offers special sets, including the Completist, and the Starter kit. We tried August's Starter Kit over the holidays with a small group of friends for an evening of tea tasting. This kit included the current fall-winter collection: Leatherbound, Mood Indigo, Tropic of Capricorn, Nighthawks, and Veins of Gold.
Flavours: They really had me at the great tea titles, namely "Mood Indigo," and "Veins of Gold." With names like those, I had high hopes of the tea living up to its bold captions. Fortunately, the collection did not disappoint.
One of my favourites was definitely Mood Indigo. It's the perfect unity of smouldering fruit, and charming notes of herbal liqueur. Savour it as you're enjoying your favourite vintage vinyl record of soulful rhythms at night. After trying it out first, I almost did not want to share the rest. Yes, it's that good. The flavour transports you to an urbane lounge, and taking a bite out of a sweet orange right on the barbie.
My least favourite was probably Nighthawks, the label says it's "an organic Darjeeling style black tea from Nepal." It was good in taste, but not as exciting for me, despite that it was favoured by others. The package says that it tastes like "dark oak, dried roses, and red bordeaux"— all things that I love but, I reckon the other tea flavours captivated my taste buds more.
For rooibos fans, Veins of Gold will strike a chord nicely with you. It's caffeine free and embodies classic holiday flavours of chocolate, and a dash of nutmeg. We paired it with a Grand Marnier cake that I made. Obviously, it's also perfect with your biscuit of preference.
The most surprisingly addicting flavour though goes to Tropic of Capricorn, a fragrant green tea enveloped in eucalyptus leaves, and dragonfruit. This tea comes in at number one alongside Mood Indigo for us, we tried both flavours hot and iced, and enjoyed it.
Leatherbound reminded me of baking flavours from my childhood. It's smooth and satisfying tea that's comforting by the sip. This bold black tea has organic dark cocoa, and organic caraway. It's the tea that you'd drink whilst being engrossed in a great novel.
Based in Los Angeles, Calif., the brand's mission is to provide fine tea options in a diverse range to contemporary tea enthusiasts without compromising quality. The loose teas are sourced and skilfully blended in Germany.
Packaging: Onyx box with Mint hued accents and branded label. Overall: a simple, polished, and luxe aesthetic. The Fall-Winter 2015 Starter Kit comes with a one-cup tea infuser, brewing guide, a scoop, and 4-serving resealable bags (five tea flavours) that make up 20 cups of tea.
For the collection jars of tea, they come individually in matte black 100g tins.
If you fancy quality flavoured tea or know someone who appreciates the unconventional, then I'd suggest the starter kit. The brand ships worldwide, so it's a win-win! We also tried our hand at mixing some of the teas with spirits, which resulted in a few marvellous concoctions.
The goods: Starter Kit: Fall-Winter 2015 Collection-Courtesy of August Uncommon Tea. For more info. on how to brew visit Augus.la, Eco-friendly "Helga" table linens and Snösiska printed napkins-c/o Gudrun Sjoden.
Have you tried flavoured tea? What do you think of August Uncommon Tea?
I love Chai Tea and Green I had not try this one you mention will love to sound fancy.
Want to try this tea!
Sounds like really amazing tea! My sister sells loose tea so we only drink tea in my family and no coffee. I really appreciate good tea like this. This starter kit sounds perfect.
Thanks! Yes, the starter kit is a great deal for new tea adventurers.


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Item 1251 - Acceptance Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the Razak Award Ceremony
Acceptance Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the Razak Award Ceremony
ZA COM MR-S-1251
Transcription of speech made by Mr Mandela
Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla
(18 July 1918-5 December 2013)
Migrated from the Nelson Mandela Speeches Database (Sep-2018).
Razak Award Ceremony
Publication note
Award accepted by Zindzi on behalf of Nelson Mandela; Mandela accepts award videotape
I feel greatly honoured to be this year's recipient of the Tun Razak Award. I was emboldened to accept this prestigious award in the full knowledge that the honour you bestow on me is a recognition of the contribution that the people of South Africa as a whole, and the African National Congress in particular, have made to the ideals of humanity for freedom, peace and justice.
We have over the years been inspired by the vision of Tun Razak of uplifting the poor by using among other measures, affirmative action in favour of the majority. The successes of the Malaysian people in building a growing and viable economy are, in part, a result of these policies.
The people of Malaysia and South Africa have a long and special relationship.
From those dark days, 350 years ago, when your citizens were brought to South Africa as slaves, to our common struggle against apartheid , we have been together in the fight for a better world. Today, we are in the process of building a partnership for development, as South Africa emerges into the world community of free nations.
We remember with pride and gratitude, the role that Malaysia played in the destruction of the system of apartheid in South Africa. You were at the forefront of efforts of the Commonwealth and Non-Aligned Movement to ensure that apartheid South Africa is isolated by the international community. At the United Nations, Malaysia was active in various committees which supported our struggle and a founding member of the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid.
Consistent with its anti-apartheid policies, Malaysia played a very significant role in supporting the premier liberation movement in South Africa, the African National Congress. Your support for our voter education campaign during the recent historic elections, as well as the housing project in various parts of South Africa are among the recent solidarity actions that we shall always cherish.
The Government of National Unity in South Africa looks forward to the building of mutually-beneficial relations among our two countries in the promotion of trade, investments and technical co-operation, as well as in bilateral and multilateral endeavours to promote world peace and development.
I once more thank you from the bottom of my heart for conferring the Tun Razak Award on me and the people of South Africa. May peace, freedom and prosperity flourish among our peoples.
Malaysia » Kuala Lumpur
Acquisition method: Hardcopy ; Source: ANC Archives, Office of the ANC President, Nelson Mandela Papers, University of Fort Hare. Accessioned on 22/01/2010 by Zintle Bambata
Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (Creator)


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Why are Yazidis being uprooted again?
The Yazidis of Iraq who escaped Islamic State assaults and took refuge at a camp in Turkey have been told to pack up and move to other camps.
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Mahmut Bozarslan
@mahmutbozarslan
yazidis, refugee camps, kurds, is, hdp, diyarbakir, displacement, dbp
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — The Yazidi refugees who fled massacres at the hands of the Islamic State in Iraq are now being forced to vacate their camp in Turkey — in the dead of winter, on short notice.
There was a lot of activity Dec. 30 at the entrance of the Fidanlik refugee camp on the Diyarbakir-Mardin highway. A group of journalists wanted to visit the camp that houses Yazidis, but guards at the gate said visits were prohibited without permission from the governor. Instead of the usual Diyarbakir municipality staff guarding the gate, Al-Monitor saw three uniformed officials of the Disaster and Emergency Affairs Department (AFAD).
Al-Monitor encountered at the entrance a Yazidi man, who said, "We are told to evacuate the camp," before being dragged back into the camp by officials.
The camp, which had been managed by the Yenisehir municipality of Diyarbakir, has fallen victim to political maneuvering because its just-replaced mayor was from the Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP). The government has been removing elected DBP mayors and replacing them with government-assigned trustees. In Yenisehir, the local district governor was also appointed as the trustee mayor. That move changed the fate of Yazidis in the Fidanlik camp.
The new city administration decided to transfer the Yazidis to other camps run by AFAD. Since then, conditions have worsened in Fidanlik camp.
When camp residents were informed of the decision in early December, they sent representatives to check out other camps. Even though conditions at those locations are better than the Yazidis' current, deteriorating conditions, many residents do not want to leave the place they have called home for more than two years.
Although journalists were not allowed in the camp, Al-Monitor was able to talk with Yazidis who were going out to shop. Halef Smoki, who has lived in the Diyarbakir camp for more than two years with his five-member family, told Al-Monitor the situation there has become miserable since the evacuation order was given.
"They were giving us food and looked after us. Now we are told to leave. They tell us, 'No more meals or water, and soon we will cut your electricity.' Where are we supposed to go with children in the middle of winter? We no longer have a doctor because they took him away. We are left with nothing. We are under government order. We will do what they say. If we can stay, we will."
Kasim Ismail, who was with Smoki waiting for transport to the city, was also upset. He told Al-Monitor, "We are told to evacuate the camp. We don't know what to do. Where are we supposed to go? We want to stay here. We can't go back to our homes in Shengal [Sinjar, Iraq] that now lie in rubble. They have to do something for us. Either send us to another country or do something for us here. Nobody is doing anything for us. I don't know about other camps, but we are used to life here."
I walked around the perimeter of the camp, which is encircled by barbed wire, and called out to two men inside. Ilyas Ismail Serkani spoke from behind the wire about his unhappy situation, saying, "They told us they are going to cut off our bread, water and electricity. They tell us to get out of here and go to Midyat or Sanliurfa. We want to stay here and they won't let us."
Yazidi parliamentarian Feleknas Uca of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) raised the issue in parliament in late December and presented questions for the prime minister to answer later. Some of her questions included: Why is the camp, which houses 1,029 Yazidis, being closed? Where will they go? Will new camps be built for Yazidis, or will they be sharing camps with Syrian refugees? What is the legal justification for this decision?
She also bluntly asked, "What is the purpose of the Yazidis — who have survived for the past 2½ years with the help of the Yenisehir municipality, the people of Diyarbakir and the international civil society after escaping from [IS] genocide — now to be severed from these sources of support and be subjected to prison-like conditions?"
The AFAD officials who have taken over the camp refused to speak to Al-Monitor. Some of those officials who did not allow reporters to enter the camp said they would not force anyone to evacuate the camp. But nobody explained how Yazidis deprived of their basic needs such as food, water and electricity will survive if they stay. Obviously, the Yazidi refugees will have no choice but to move to other camps.
In mid-December, the refugees were told they would have to leave by the beginning of January. On Jan. 1, news came that the evacuation was indeed underway. One camp resident told Al-Monitor by phone that people were packing their belongings. He said on condition of anonymity, "We don't want to go, but we have no choice. We didn't leave our land [in Iraq] voluntarily. Now we have to leave this place. [There is] nothing else we can do."
Yazidis who have left the Fidanlik camp have been relocated to the AFAD-run camp in the town of Midyat in Mardin province.
The Yazidis also fear relocation because of security concerns. They are inaccurately portrayed by some Muslims as pagans who worship the devil. That belief is responsible for the Yazidis being subjected to persecution throughout their history. IS has massacred thousands of Yazidis.
The camp residents were already barely surviving with diminishing assistance from volunteers and municipalities that have their own financial problems. Many sick people couldn't find medicine. The camp, which once had more than 5,000 residents, was down to 1,250 people in December after some went to Europe and others returned to Iraq. Although those who remained wanted to stay, they seem to have no choice but to move on in search of a new life.
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You are here: Home / Parish Meeting / Precept / Why now?
By the end of 1990 the parish had over £26,000. This followed the sale of the parish cottages. Consequently there was no need to set a precept.
The Sports Hall, built in Swinton, also serves the villages of Broughton and Amotherby. Broughton Parish agreed a donation of £3,000 to the Swinton District Playing Field Association towards initial costs. Further, a loan of £10,000 was agreed. In1999 repayments of £500 annually began. No interest was charged. Other expenditure for the benefit of the sports hall included a television for the lounge; donations given towards new equipment for both the Swinton Short Mat Bowling Club and the Swinton and Broughton Cricket Club. The annual fireworks display was also financially supported over the years.
The Parish purchased 12 new street lights (£2,277.00), for which grant covered 30% of cost.
£1,000 was contributed towards the purchase price of land to form a new burial ground for the parishes of Amotherby, Swinton and Broughton.
There was also a donation of £2,000, agreed in October 2007, towards the upgrading of the Swinton Reading Rooms, used for the Playgroup, table tennis, snooker and a polling station for Broughton residents.
The rest of the monies were used over the years to cover various parish costs, of which the largest annual cost is electricity for the 14 street lamps and replacement of the lamps when needed. Removing the hedge and replacing with a fence, to improve visibility towards Swinton for motorists emerging from Main Street onto the B1257, was also funded by the Parish.
Although Amotherby Parish Hall , originally built to serve the church parish, includes Broughton in the parishes it serves, it was not financially supported.
Further details of the above expenditure can be found in either the 20thC Minutes or the 21stC Minutes. or the accounts.
Compare Broughton's precept with those of its neighbouring parishes.
For 2011-2012 the parishes of Amotherby and Swinton each levied a precept of £2,700 – £200 more than Broughton's precept of £2,500.
Because of the difference in number of households, those living in a D band property in Amotherby pay £17.73 a year, Swinton residents pay £12.57 a year while Broughton residents now pay £29.97.
Everyone in Broughton who is on the electoral roll has the right not just to attend meetings, but also to speak and vote on all issues.