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TEZA 2015, Transmission
November 27, 2015 ameryzwartz Leave a comment
Images: Andrew Matautia, Mark Amery, Gabrielle McKone, Alicia Rich and Frankie Padallec
Beginning the day and ending the day the Young Visionaries projection runs through the night during TEZA in the windows of The Old McDonalds.
Outside TEZA Hub flags featuring prints of tuna printed by tamariki in Kaiapoi from the TEZA 2013 project Kaihaukai have flown all week. They travel on this day to Titahi Bay and Hongoeka Marae.
A quieter, gentler morning at the Hub.
Cassidy Browne works on editing the TEZA Transmission (the publishing platform you're reading).
While Faith Wilson hosts.
Ash's roleplay for the day was to be a student at Titahi Bay School. Here he is with his artists for the day.
Over at Pataka, Sarah Maxey runs an alternative signs workshop as part of the Porirua People's Library.
The results sneak their way into the gallery and nearby library.
It was a busy day for the The People's Library. Margaret Tolland and Kerry Ann Lee were out and about around Porirua with a mobile zine table.
Up at Cannon's Creek.
Zac with work starting on the PPL zine for launch Sunday.
Pip Adam works on The Made-Up Times
A visit from artist Wi Taepa (who has popped up at beautiful times throughout TEZA), with photographer Andrew Matautia.
Lunchtime saw a really productive discussion on different models for independent artist run spaces, with recent and planned experiences in Porirua and contributions from the wider region.
TEZA 2013 artist Kim Lowe skyped in to talk about setting up her space Toi Te Karoro in New Brighton since TEZA.
While Liana Leiataua discussed the art space she will open up where Sharemart is next week through Urban Dream Brokerage Porirua.
Mark Harvey was at it again, finding plenty of volunteers for his refinery.
The community were completely aglow at their first Titahi Bay Boatshed Festival – the bay vibrating with kinship for two and a half hours, before the rain sent us scurrying into a boatshed to watch old movies of Porirua, care of the Film Archive.
Simon did a brisk trade in bread while next door Tim cooked fresh fish. No charge.
November 27, 2015 ameryzwartz 1 Comment
Image: Gabrielle McKone
Community and Accessibility
I want to write about community. At least, that's what I thought I wanted to write about, heading into TEZA 2015. Building and actively participating in communities is something I have become increasingly passionate about over recent years. I am also interested in the way many communities fail to see those they exclude; the outsiders and the left behind.
I talked a lot about community to some of the great people I met at TEZA on Thursday. I told them about how a while back I'd joined my local neighbourhood Facebook group, and then very quickly left again, feeling disillusioned. There had been so much talk about the types of people living in the community, so much negativity towards people who were different. The group's members couldn't understand that these people they were so afraid of were also a part of their community. They were too caught up with what the community in their heads looked like. It looked like themselves, and no one else.
I go to numerous literature events, and more often than not they are exclusively white. White writers speaking to a white audience. I talked about this in my discussions on Thursday, about how so often creative events are inaccessible. There are huge swathes of people they simply do not reach. "Who do you think isn't being reached here?" I'm asked. I think.
On Tuesday I'd seen people drawn into conversations on their lunch breaks while walking past TEZA participants. When I sat on Cobham Court with Pip Adam, writing an article for 'The Made Up Times', people were able to offer a quick headline as they passed by. In less than a minute, while on their commute they had been given the chance to participate, to contribute. Pip went into some of the surrounding shops to talk to the local business owners and their staff. The workers who couldn't get away from their stores had TEZA brought to them, made accessible.
On Thursday morning I sat in while groups from Corinna School made salads with Rosalind McIntosh. Children are one of the most disenfranchised groups of society. They are rarely welcome at creative events unless those events are catered to them specifically. They are so often a forgotten, invisible portion of our communities, and yet here they were, involved.
That afternoon I took part in the Raps & Monologues workshop run by Pikihuia Haenga, Amelia Espinosa and Te Kupu. After introductions and some quick writing exercises we adjourned to work on our pieces while Te Kupu headed off to pick up his seven year old daughter from school. When they returned she participated in the workshop, reading her own original writings along with the rest of us. Children were not confined to a quiet corner until their parents were finished partaking in the day's activities. Parents were not restricted by childcare hours. Everyone was welcome. Everyone was catered to. Accessibility.
But I don't want to paint a picture of a utopian community. I can't ignore that TEZA is taking place in Porirua, and yet the vast majority of people I interacted with had come from out of town specifically for the event. Does that even matter? As the day began to wear on me I headed over to North City Shopping Centre to try and distance myself from the critical thinking and analysis that TEZA had inspired in me. Compared to the outlying shopping strips where TEZA has set up camp, the mall is full of the hustle and bustle of life. I'd been tricked into thinking of Porirua as a dying community, but inside the mall I saw that it is thriving. I thought about all of these people going about their business, and wonder why TEZA isn't aiming to draw them in as its audience. Surely these locals are a valid arts audience.
That evening I realised I'd got it all wrong. TEZA is not primarily about creativity. Creative thinking is a major foundation of the week, no doubt, but the clue is right there in the name: Transitional Economic Zone of Aotearoa. This is about economics, a fact I have managed to conveniently ignore because I thought I had no interest in economics. I'm as guilty as anyone of creating an imaginary community, blind to what I don't want to see.
At the Creative Summit on New Economy Thinking I discovered that I'm more interested in economics than I thought I was. I listened as people shared their desire for a new economic system, one that values things such as time, knowledge and even mood over money. The conversation was unsettling. I couldn't help but think of the book Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? by Katrine Marçal, which discusses how Smith, the father of modern economics, neglected to take into account his mother, who prepared his meal every night when constructing his economic theories of food production and labour. I thought about who we might have been forgetting in our discussions. I heard about the supposed "poverty of soul, mind and spirit" that people are suffering from, and then heard about the large amounts of labour that people are already performing free of charge. I heard about how beneficiaries are supposedly "rich in time" and wondered why we were talking about, and not to. There was hope in these conversations, but there was also a sense of the enormity of the task at hand. No one seemed to have the answer we were all so desperately searching for.
From what I can tell, TEZA isn't about finding answers. It is about asking questions. It is about suggesting alternatives. And it is about bringing together a community. Not necessarily a geographic community, but a community of like minds. I wanted to write about the community I saw in my head before experiencing TEZA. Instead, I am grateful for the community that I built for myself with each conversation I had, each question I asked, and each workshop I participated in.
Day 6 TEZA in images
Photographers: Gabrielle McKone, Amanda Joe, Georgina Conroy, Sophie Jerram and Mark Amery
Serious salad making began on Thursday, with artists from Corinna School working with mixed vegetable media.
In the kitchen at the bread-making workshop.
Hair play at the All Good? Pop-Up Hair Salon.
Mark Harvey worked with the Corinna School kids to construct cardboard and tape costumes for street performances.
Barbarian Production's Thomas La Hood awaits customers.
Shay Green, artist for the day makes bread as part of his exchange with Ash Howell.
Clothing upcycling at the Sharemart.
Ash Howell's Ako Ako role swapping project continues. Ash started as a politician on Monday and worked his way up to stable hand by Thursday.
At the end of the day, Ash debriefs with his day's stand-in. Here with artist-for-a-day, local MP Kris Faafoi. The projection is in a backspace behind Sharemart until Sunday night 29 November.
Ash at Wellington Riding for the Disabled.
Strong Pacific Families had a busy day with the continuing exhibition of Pacific arts and crafts and a screening of Koa o Tokelau – a collection of film clips from 60 years of Tokelau's history.
Jung Shim Krefft, Georgina Conroy, George Staniland (Massey interns and TEZA photographers), David Cook and Leala Falesuega installing Young Visionaries at the Old McDonalds.
The OMD windows contain the student's portraits and visions – these can be viewed online here.
Pikihuia Haenga and Kerry Ann Lee from the Porirua People's Library before the Free Range Raps and Monologues workshop kicked off at the TEZA hub, with guest Te Kupu.
Shay Green with Chiang Mai-based Belgian writer and activist Michel Bauwens who joined TEZA for a discussion on "New Economy Thinking".
Michel with local film director and writer Wiremu Grace at Titahi Bay.
Richard Bartlett from the worker-owned Loomio collective, facilitated a wide-ranging discussion on economic alternatives to the cash economy.
The day ended with Cycle-Powered Cinema out in the mall, care of Gapfiller in Christchurch who joined us via Skype from their fifth birthday celebrations (happy birthday you stunners!). We screened a documentary about Gap Filler's Pallet Pavilion, all powered by bikes.
Big thanks to Deb Fisher, Marcus McShane, Rich Bartlett, John Poppleton and crew for making this happen.
Response #5: Max Rashbrooke
What do artists know about economics?
Max Rashbrooke
"The only reason to learn about economics is to stop economists pulling the wool over your eyes."
– David Norton, Emeritus Professor, School of English Literature, Victoria University of Wellington
WHAT IS ECONOMICS? What is it for? And how much of it do we want? These questions lingered, like an irritating aunt, throughout my day at the Transitional Economic Zone of Aotearoa (TEZA) 2015. It was hard to avoid economics, given the way the word, and therefore the concept, were embedded right within the thing itself. And there were suggestions, hints, thoughts about new ways of doing economics scattered everywhere in the TEZA programme.
The artists were asking questions, as artists do, and should, rather than searching too hard for immediate answers. But I did wonder if other questions needed to be asked. A question can be a bridge between you and the person you disagree with. And I think that many people cynical about TEZA's purpose – the people who aren't at all convinced about volunteering, the sharing economy, post-capitalism, or the wider project of redefining economics – would have bridged the gap between TEZA and themselves by asking, in a slightly hostile tone: yes, this is fine, but how is it all to be paid for?
EVEN THOUGH THE TEZA SPACES WERE IN A SHOPPING PRECINCT, surrounded by layers of concrete, they felt like spring. Ideas were popping up everywhere, and not in a central, organised structure like a tree trunk, but independently, unpredictably, like blades of grass.
Very often the ideas were right in line with TEZA's mission of thinking about new forms of exchange, new kinds of economics. I test-tasted bread with Simon Gray as he talked about working on school gardening projects and trying to make schools self-sufficient. I helped Mark Harvey create bizarre, inventive cardboard and sticky tape costumes for a bunch of schoolkids, as a way of thinking about volunteering and what it brings to people on both sides of that exchange. I visited Sharemart, which promised "a new economic model" for clothing, based on exchange, repair and reuse. I went out to the old Porirua mental hospital grounds and talked to Tim Barlow about artisanal workers, industrial workers and the now-defunct Todd Motors plant.
All these projects were joyous, and creative,and clever. They stood on those merits alone. They were all also questioning the dominance of market systems, the exchange of buying and selling in our modern lives. But there were other questions that I felt needed asking. I also felt that free-market economics would have posed some difficult questions for them.
Getting schools to grow more vegetables is something I wholeheartedly support, for its own sake and for its many spin-off benefits – the lessons it teaches about the environment, the earth, the growing process. But there is a good reason that schools and other small groups don't invest much time, often, in growing vegetables. Anything done by amateurs in small chunks will produce less of what we want in a given time than something done by professionals at scale. Leaving gardening to the professionals – division of labour in other words – opens up the time for us to do other things that we might want to do.
Sharemart faced similar issues. One of its staff members noted that people coming there to have clothes repaired were supposed to stick around, so as to learn from the seamstresses and exchange something meaningful, but they would often just "drop and run". Again, it was about division of labour: leave someone to do something efficiently, and you can use that time to earn an income, or do something else that you value. It's also about cost: people often don't get clothes repaired because it's cheaper to buy new ones.
TEZA, of course, is arguing that we need a different kind of economics: but what kind, exactly? Clothes are cheap in part because when you throw away old ones, you pay almost no price, in rubbish bags or tip fees, to compensate for the environmental costs of this pollution (the externality, in economic terms, that you impose on everyone else). So is TEZA saying that if we put a proper price on pollution – and, not incidentally, carbon – then throwing away clothes would, rightly, become more expensive than repairing them, and that would get us to our desired outcome? Is the answer, in other words, to be found in extending the reach of economics, applying price mechanisms to more things in a fairer way?
Similarly, with self-sufficiency in schools, one could argue that the many benefits of growing your own vegetables outweigh the efficiency benefits of leaving it to the big boys. But how do we quantify those benefits? Could we somehow measure them in a concrete way, put a number on them that could be added into a matrix of traditional economic calculations to evaluate the best option? Again, this would be extending the reach of economics. Or, conversely, should we simply assert that those things cannot be measured, and that non-economic concepts – learning for its own sake, protecting the environment, ideas from other disciplines such as sociology and philosophy – have primacy? That would be a deliberate plan to re-orient economics around different goals.
Tim Barlow's mobile community centre sparked even bigger questions, thanks to the fact it was towed by, and paid homage to, a Hillman Hunter from the old Todd Motors factory. Todd Motors used to be an essential part of Porirua life, employing thousands of people, and its disappearance still reverberates harshly through the community. But it disappeared because New Zealand simply couldn't produce cars that were as cheap and reliable as Japanese imports, and the country overall chose – and benefited from – those imports, even if Porirua suffered.
Barlow isn't suggesting that we revert to protecting a car industry (not that we could anyway, given the free trade agreements we have signed). But then what do we do? Again, do we try to concretely measure the benefits of having local industries – the spillover effects, the savings from not having people unemployed, and so on – in a way that allows us to better make the case for them? Or do we say that we, the people, acting through government, have a better view of how the economy could work than when we, the people, act as consumers, buying and selling things? If so, how would we have that knowledge, and how could we articulate it?
THESE ARE ALL DIFFICULT QUESTIONS, and I'm not saying that TEZA could have answered them alone. But if we, the broader movement in which TEZA is embedded, cannot answer them, cannot come up with a new and coherent economics, we will probably be unable to explain to the skeptics how everything is going to be paid for.
At one point during my day at TEZA one of the artists said to me: "Economics is so cool. It seems like an imaginary system." And to some extent it is. Its supposed precision and predictive power are certainly illusory, and, as my old English lecturer David Norton suggests in the epigraph to this piece, it's good to be able to challenge its more ridiculous claims. But the non-imaginary part of economics simply helps us answer the question of how we can best do what we want, given limited resources. And that is one of the hardest questions to answer.
Programme, TEZA 2015
TEZA What's On: Sunday 29 November
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8.30am – 3pm (Hongoeka Marae, Plimmerton). The Conscious Roots hui brings gardeners, healers, whānau and kaumātua together to celebrate and strengthen our connection to Papatuanuku and each other. There will be music, stories, creativity, film, workshops, dance, rongoā, karetao, mirimiri, fire, hangi, and laughter in the spirit of community. Presented by Wiremu Grace and Linda Lee and hosted by Hongoeka Marae. (FULL HOUSE)
1pm – 2pm (TEZA Hub, 10 Lydney Place South). Citizen Funeral: Funeral for TEZA
5.30pm (TEZA Hub). Poroporoake/Farewell.
TEZA What's On: Saturday 28 November
All events are free and open to the public to participate.
9am – 9pm (TEZA Hub, 10 Lydney Place South). Pop in anytime to get involved and have a cuppa.
10am – 5pm (Hongoeka Marae, Plimmerton). Powhiri at 10am. The Conscious Roots hui brings gardeners, healers, whānau and kaumātua together to celebrate and strengthen our connection to Papatuanuku and each other. There will be music, stories, creativity, film, workshops, dance, rongoā, karetao, mirimiri, fire, hangi, and laughter in the spirit of community. Presented by Wiremu Grace and Linda Lee and hosted by Hongoeka Marae. (FULL HOUSE)
12pm – ongoing (The Old McDonalds, 1 Cobham Court). Young Visionaries: Photographic artists David Cook and Leala Falesuega have worked with students of Russell School in Cannons Creek and Discovery School in Whitby to visualise their shared visions for the future. Building on Cook and Tim J Velling's acclaimed Freeville School Project (TEZA 2013), Cook and Faleseuga present a collective documentary process using photographs, moving images, words and drawings, to produce large scale presentations of the work as a whole in the windows of the old McDonalds site.
12pm – 1pm (TEZA Hub). A gathering of those who have swapped roles as part of Ash Howell's Ako Ako Role Swapping Adventure over the week. A chance for a small group of highly diverse local community members to come together to reflect on and celebrate an intense collective experience.
12.30pm – 1.30pm (Hartham Place). Lunch at Sharemart.
Day Five TEZA in images: Ako Ako, Workshops with Corinna school students, Strong Pacific Families, Sharemart, Volunteer Refinery, JIT, Creative Summits and
Images: Gabrielle McKone, George Staniland and Sophie Jerram
As part of his Ako Ako role-Swapping adventure, Ash took on the role of Tracey Wellington, CEO/co-founder of Kiwi Community Assistance, a food and resource recovery agency to assist people in the community.
The TEZA Hub morning began with a visit from a group of young students from Corinna School who participated in workshops, including salad making with Ros McIntosh, breadmaking with Simon Gray and cartooning with Zac Mateo.
Volunteer Refinery worked with Corinna Students finishing with a street performance.
Strong Pacific Families have been busy running a pop-up exhibition full of art and craft workshops showcasing the Tokelau community in Porirua.
The Corinna students getting in on the action.
Meanwhile Tim and the Just in Time Community Centre headed to Te Rito Gardens in Kenepuru for the afternoon.
As midday came, the first of the two Creative Summit sessions was happening back at the TEZA Hub with artist presentations by Kemi and Niko, Andrea Selwood and Kedron Parker.
All Good? – Pop-up Hair Salon's hairdresser Jason Muir visited local hair salons where he spoke with hairdressers to chat about the intimacy of the act of cutting someone's hair and the implicit role of the hairdresser as an unofficial counsellor. Here artist Faith Wilson gets a special cut at Zils in the CBD.
Meanwhile visiting artist for the day thanks to Ash, Tracy Wellington gets stitching with Sharemart shop manager Lotte Kellaway to make a bag.
Here's Tracy embracing being Ash Holwell, the cyclist.
Simon Gray with 'mother'.
Barbarian Production's Thomas La Hood hawking for new haircut clients.
Some of the Porirua People's Library artists: Pip Adam, Faith and Lana Lopesi.
November 25, 2015 ameryzwartzatmospheres, Hakim Bey, Murdoch Stephens, Porirua, Sloterdijk, TAZ, TEZA Leave a comment
Image: Jung Shim Krefft
I am friends with more Transitional Economic Zone of Aotearoa (TEZA) participants than not. A day in the life was more catching up with old pals than digesting new ones. It feels rude to not nod their way, but there are just so many of them to list here. This reflection is not going to be about what happened in the space on that day, but more about the atmosphere surrounding TEZA, especially in the other, air-conditioned, climate controlled parts of Porirua.
I joked with the TEZA crew on Tuesday about my scathing/scything critique-to-come. But I have no blade to apply to this project. As with a number of contemporary thinkers I want to liberate 'criticality' from the idea of casting judgment. Being critical might imply negativity but doing critique is a whole other thing.
Doing critique is woven into the way Mark, Sophie and the Letting Space crew have constructed TEZA. These people are not dupes who we can deploy our critique against, as if flicking on a light and welcoming them to some new understanding. Those involved with TEZA are the first to ask the critical questions: who is the art work for? What's the role of class, race and space within the project? The TEZA crew have embarked on this project not in spite of these difficult questions but because of them: they want to participate in these discussions and don't mind being the flint on which others' critical knives are sharpened.
Out of some space. Around the corner. Over the seam. Nibbling at the edges. To something more like home.
Climate change is the big big big transition. A super-wicked problem. You think that wearing sunscreen in summer is a drag? Wait for this new mess: floods, hurricanes, storms. Water tables a-risin'.
I'm not a collapsitarian. I think we'll mostly all survive. It'll be one catastrophe after another. Always transitioning. No apocalypse. Crisis, crisis, softly, softly, slowly, slowly. Water tables a-risin'.
Retail spaces are being gutted and this is not going to change. Our city landscapes are fundamentally changing and there are going to be plenty of losers. These losers will be those who don't understand the new sensitivities of the economic zones of our urban centres. We saw it in the 1980s with the expansion of the mall – every product was available in one place. The Warehouse did to small NZ retailers as Walmart did to the Mom & Pop stores of America.
The big businesses – the Warehouses and Walmarts – have survived the transition to the digital age. But only just. They offer their wares online, but it may be too little too late. TradeMe and other nimble online retailers from abroad have captured significant market shares. Online sales will expand and expand, the big box stores wont last.
When I read Reuben Friend's analysis of the shop and business owners of Porirua's wariness of TEZA, I read of a group of people who could feel the steady decline in the value of their assets, who had no idea about what they could do to halt it. In times like that – as the boat is sinking – we cling onto what ever seems the most stable. For those with a stake in retail property this stable thing is a phantom: the idea that the 'downturn' is temporary. That all it takes is a little extra effort from real estate agents and vacant commercial spaces will be filled with long-term tenants.
We've seen this in Wellington too, where retail is on the way out and service organisations are taking over. If a new store is to open in the CBD odds are that it'll be there to provide food or drink.
I've been involved in running a community art space in central Wellington for three and a half years, in a space that all that time has remained open to be rented. Commercial clients who come in and want to rent the space almost exclusively want to set up a café or some sort of restaurant. With earthquake strengthening due, there has only been one really serious inquiry in all the years of our occupation. It is in spaces like this that the TEZA crew have honed what it means to produce good city atmospheres.
Retailers hate the Porirua climate. They want to welcome shoppers, not have them harried by wind and rain. They want doors wide open. But they don't want leaves blowing in.
They have seen the big boxes offering total climate control. But now virtual, www space outsources the climate control. Shop from the comfort of your own home. A rainy weekend is optimal the perfect time for online sales. Sunday evening is the optimal end time for the TradeMe Auction.
TEZA emerged as a concept in 2012 based on a parody of the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) where the laws of a country are limited in a prescribed area so that business may thrive. The most formal SEZs tend to be manufacturing zones near export hubs where taxes aren't paid and unions aren't welcome. But there are many other forms of less formal SEZs – consider the Duty Free section of the airport, where consumers pay no tax on tobacco and alcohol.
Porirua has North City. It is where the people are. There are scents – baking bread, perfume and disinfectant – and there is soft lighting. There's no wind and you can park free for 240 minutes. They're tender guests: no gang patches, no skateboarding, no photography and no list of these laws – if you don't know how to behave you're not welcome. It is the perfect site for those who play by unspoken rules.
Few come out onto the bricks of Cobham Court where the Porirua City Council have tried to make the atmosphere lighter by taking away the canopies. Now it is lighter but also windy. It would be safer to take the car.
Once upon a time there were city-states; fortifications. These became nation-states, built on wonky unity work (some islands are exceptions) and blurry boundaries. In each of these types of states there have been different exclusions, different ways to protect the common air. If climate change does indeed make an enemy of the atmosphere, then new fortifications will be needed. North City is a model of this kind of climate control.
But TEZA is nothing at all like a SEZ. It is a parody of those sites of privilege and exclusivity. TEZA is more like the Temporary Autonomous Zones (TAZ) chronicled in Hakim Bey's book T.A.Z. where he offers a history of 'pirate utopias' – small, temporary enclaves that attempt to claim and use a space for a small period of time. As Bey writes, "The TAZ is like an uprising which does not engage directly with the State, a guerilla operation which liberates an area (of land, of time of imagination) and then dissolves itself to re-form elsewhere/elsewhen, before the State can crush it".
For TEZA there's no such feeling of being about to be crushed: access to the empty, shopping spaces has been negotiated for a limited period of time; the liberation in question is a gift from those who own the buildings; the guerrilla operation is the benign promise of Art.
Some shop owners understand that they are in the business of creating atmospheres – they welcome attempts to lively up the space. But others are like those libertarians who want nothing to do with collective living, imagining their responsibility ends at the front door.
TEZA does not have the technology or resources of North City. Would it be better for it? Or is there something necessarily windswept and wastrel about the project?
of AOTEAROA
By count of open doors to the atmosphere TEZA wins out over the enclosed, planned space of North City. I couldn't even find my way out of North City – exits are bad for business, threatening to atmospheres of contentment.
If North City is the air-conditioned, domesticated future city-state then TEZA has set up in the wastelands of those banished from the city. Not everyone fits into the curated pseudo-commons of the mall.
Outside the mall are buildings that are depreciating in value. I counted five 'dollar shops' though a few were closed, signs left up like omens warning of quicksand: GOOD 2 U, CATCH A BARGAIN, DA DEALS, THE MIGHTY $ SHOP, 123 MART. There are some food stores, some barbers, Instant Finance.
It might not seem like a big deal to walk to these dim hutches outside North City, to navigate the wind and sun. But know that those inside North City do not want it. There are few exits – quite literally – to the North City. We can take the escalator up and down, we can walk around the building's gentle curves. But search for an exit and you'll soon find yourself lost. The building whispers, "why leave, why leave?" It is right: the atmosphere inside is just right.
Soft, seductive, sleepy: "Blessed are the sleepy ones for they shall soon drop off".
When I do find the exit, I'm on the opposite side of where I thought I was. I walk down car ramps, traverse empty streets, am once more aware of the elements on my skin. Cruel exile! Oh to be back in the food court.
Well, we of the thick skin might be of the mind to say 'its not so bad outside' but most of the population are a long way from wanting a life that is not so bad. North City doesn't advertise that. They advertise the best of all possible worlds.
We're becoming accustomed to curated atmospheres. Sloterdijk asks us to think of the rules of the human zoo. Climate control will be the applied science of the 21st century. Domestication and house training await.
Images: Gabrielle McKone, Jung Shim Krefft and Amanda Joe
Tuesday was our busiest day yet, with 100s of people through the TEZA Hub. By lunchtime we were thrilled to see how we could accommodate no less than six different activities in the Hub at once, all exchanging with one another, while at the same time around the corner in Hartham Place there were another four events happening. Here's a video of the Hub at lunchtime yesterday.
Meanwhile Ash Holwell was on his second role-swap day as part of Ako Ako, taking the role of Nick Lambert, a machine operator at wallpaper manufacturing company Aspiring Walls.
Nick joined in with activities as an artist at the hub in the morning. Working on Tim Barlow's lime rendering as part of Just in Time and Salad Making at lunchtime with Alicia Rich.
In the afternoon he completed his own project, installing a basketball hoop in the Lydney Place Laneway, where the young folks like to hang.
Here's Sharemart on Tuesday morning, with our writer for the day Murdoch Stephens, and Daphne Swinton from Whanau Kotahi across the road (joining the zone for the week in the Old Flower Workshop) making a Christmas tree from pallets and fabric.
Mark Harvey continued to work in the mall with locals.
And Tim Barlow brought Just in Time to the Laneway setting up his lime rendering workshop with people starting to add their designs to his giant figure.
Strong Pacific Families in Hartham Place hosted a Health Day.
In Cobham Court Pip Adam began her lunchtime 'Made-Up Times' workshops inviting people to create the newspaper they want to read.
At the hub Kawika with Korowai Aroha ran a weaving workshop, working with native plants sourced from the laneway as part of their project Mai ngā kôrero ô neherā, e hui pālua.
Awhina Mitchell
Bread was woven at the workshop for Simon's Breadmakers project.
Alicia for her salad making workshop at lunch collaborated with students from Trade and Commerce hospitality training further down the laneway. Shared lunch followed.
As part of the Porirua People's Library, People's Radio has seen Access Radio in the Hub recording local stories. Here with the Columbian community involved in Sharemart. An audio archive can be found here.
Meanwhile All Good? hair salon opened for the first time. One customer a mother of 11 had never had a professional haircut before.
The Volunteer Refinery meanwhile moved to Pataka next to Ai Weiwei.
At 4pm The Breadmakers project held a launch at the Hub of 'the Porirua Loaf'.
After the launch Awhina Mitchell led a Rongoa session.
And the day finished with a great Creative Summit session in the evening, 'Making Home in a New Land', discussing our own and others migration, with speakers including visitor Aaron Packard (co-founder of 350 Aotearoa) and Moses Viliamu, fresh from getting the Tokelau exhibition next door installed.
The Fruit of Diversity
For some strange reason, the vast and ever expanding universe that is Porirua is forever being swathed in the old brown cloak of 'poverty, diversity and ghettoisms". It baffles me that we live in a country which in attitude juxtaposes the affluent and the stricken, yet we seem ironically surprised when a community is able to nourish both.
Meet the new face of Porirua. His home has brick walls covered in 'tasteful graffiti art' or vibrant murals, a reliable public transport system to weave through ever expanding roads, the white hill of Whitby that hides behind a brown Creek of Cannon, a stinking inlet that adds a few million to his property view but robs his grandparents of the taste of home, 'the tūturu locals', as he calls them.
His face is clean shaven and fresh, lips curled to a smile, his eyes gleam the reflective dance of a sunny wave as it wafts on the Whittakers breeze. His shirt is stained with the grease of a pie from Waitangirua, his jeans streaked green from a childhood of skidding down hills in Titahi Bay.
This young man would be intrigued by the TEZA project. He might have taken his Aunty to Whānau Kōtahi in the Porirua CBD this week and dropped off bags of clothes. They would have stopped and chatted and discussed the developments. His eyes may have wandered across the rocks to behold a strange man… a man currently being covered in cardboard and duct tape.
He certainly wouldn't have approached, but he would have listened and watched. He would have heard the man call "Can you give me a hand?" to the strangers walking past. He might have laughed quietly, both dismissive and admiring but appreciating the call for volunteers. His Aunty would hurry him away as the TV3 camera's showed up, another 'uplifting brown communities through art' angle for the masses. Perfect shot.
That afternoon he may have called his sister, the purple haired, green eyed goddess currently of Aro Valley. Her conversation with him, his pleas for a visit and that degree in Social Economics might lead her to the TEZA Hub of a Porirua afternoon, partaking in a lunch time discussion pertaining to the struggles of living and thriving in the artistic realm.
She may have sipped on a guava/banana/acai berry smoothie as her tummy rumbled for the real taste of home and her mind reveled in the encouraging messages of the people still seemingly trapped within it. She may even have asked herself why she needed to leave… was it to be free? Her wanderings may take her along the pink pathway in Sharemart, she may have held hand sewn bags equal to the best of the Cuba boutique. 'My instagram followers would love this!' she'd snap, sharing the joy of rediscovering pride in her home.
After dinner with the family that night, the siblings may decide to detour on their way home, eager to participate in another of the summits to be held in the TEZA Hub: a solid serving of environmentalism on the degustation menu. They may have smirked at the constant polite references to the darker of the two as a representative of 'the mana whenua'.
The pair may have nodded in agreement as a room full of enlightened strangers discussed the meal of every hui-ā-Iwi they had attended since birth. They may have even been relieved and proud that this conversation was happening in places other than the Marae, because they knew that these people would be listened to, when they claimed the faces of change.
Theirs may be a true reflection of the need for a TEZA project. I am confronted by the thought that communities aren't as black and white as we might like to assume. When the roaring greens of Paekakariki met the slow waves of Elsdon we were treated to a diverse spectrum of art. Porirua should be proud of the seed it has planted and the fruit it has on display this week, if only because it depicts the true projection of its diversity.
These projects each contain unique aspects of human character and expression, regardless of social standing, race or financial distribution. Porirua is a nest of creative hives and to celebrate it as such is so refreshing, especially in the face of what I would deem to be traditionally monotonous ideals. In a hopeful country where the middle ground is white, it excites me to see Porirua utilised as the azure hub on a brilliant horizon.
Tino nui te mihi kia TEZA.
Nāku noa,
Rangimarie Sophie Jolley


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Born in Barcelona, Spain, he is one the most important flamenco singers of the new generation. Although his initiation was the flamenco, he has explored different genres like ballad, tango, boleros, and rancheras, showing his versatility.
He has participated in main festivals of national and international music, singing at the Paris' Odeon, Barcelona's Liceu, Teatro Real in Madrid, Carnegie Hall, Vienna Wiener Koncerthaus, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Maestranza in Seville, and Lincoln Center in New York.
Poveda has garnered awards and distinctions including the Medal of Honor in Andalusia (2012), the Award for Best Spanish Song Album (2011), and Gold Record for selling over 30,000 copies of his album Coplas del querer (2009).
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Earlier in 2020, KCB had announced the intention to discontinue Mobiloan by the 23rd of December 2020, but this transition was moved to April 2021 with anxious customers flooding the lender with questions about their borrowing history and credit limit.
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The good news for customers previously using Mobiloan is that the credit history and loan limits previously applicable under Mobiloan have been transferred to the new service - effectively remaining unchanged.
Further, in addition to being able to access mobile loans via the KCB App, the new service comes with a Vooma App and an SSD option *522#.
Vooma has been around for a while as a mobile wallet competing with industry leader Safaricom's M-Pesa and Airtel's Airtel Money with several Vooma agents in urban centres. It allows users to send and receive money, pay bills, buy goods, buy airtime, make deposits or withdrawals and apply for loans. The service is available to non-KCB Bank account holders.
Costlier Credit
The decision to discontinue Mobiloan comes with an added expense for customers as the service, arguably, offered the lowest interest rates when compared to other mobile lending platforms.
At about 4.08% in interest per amount, Mobiloan was preferred as an inexpensive loan option as compared to KCB's alternative credit offering KCB M-Pesa which charges an interest rate of 7.35% per amount.
With the transition to Vooma, customers will now be parting with 5.91% in interest per one month loan, which is still one of the lowest interest rates (if not the lowest) among the mobile lending platforms available in Kenya.
Customers will also have to contend with a capping of the repayment period to one month on Vooma. This is in comparison to Mobiloan which allowed some flexibility/extension for loanees to repay their outstanding loans beyond one month without being considered in default.
In a text notification to its customers last week, the lender said, "the loan will be for a period of one month at a cost of 5.91%. You will continue to access and pay for VOOMA loan on *522# or the KCB App."
The Vooma App now has over 100,000 downloads on Google Play since its launch with a rating of 3.2/5 from over 1,000 reviews.
This is in comparison to the KCB App which has over 1 million downloads and a rating of 4.0 on Google Play.
A majority of the complaints include problems logging in, frequent crashing, authentication error and failure to update transactions promptly.
KCB has been providing feedback to complaints about the app which is for sure one of the innovations to watch as the mobile lending industry edges towards an era of regulation by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK).
It is important to note that mobile lending services offered by commercial banks fall under CBK's regulation. However, several other lenders who are typically non-deposit taking are set to be regulated by the CBK if a bill before Parliament is adopted.


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from preggy import expect

from tests.base import FilterTestCase

class BlurFilterTestCase(FilterTestCase):
    def test_blur_filter_with_sigma(self):
        image = self.get_filtered('source.jpg', 'thumbor.filters.blur', 'blur(4,2)')
        expected = self.get_fixture('blur.jpg')

        ssim = self.get_ssim(image, expected)
        expect(ssim).to_be_greater_than(0.99)

    def test_blur_filter_without_sigma(self):
        image = self.get_filtered('source.jpg', 'thumbor.filters.blur', 'blur(8)')
        expected = self.get_fixture('blur2.jpg')

        ssim = self.get_ssim(image, expected)
        expect(ssim).to_be_greater_than(0.99)

    def test_blur_filter_with_max_radius(self):
        image = self.get_filtered('source.jpg', 'thumbor.filters.blur', 'blur(500)')
        expected = self.get_fixture('blur3.jpg')

        ssim = self.get_ssim(image, expected)
        expect(ssim).to_be_greater_than(0.99)


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Q: How to access Hasura session_variables in PostgreSQL triggers I want to limit inserts into a PostgreSQL table department for individual users(business) using a trigger function. Each business should be able to create a maximum of 5 departments. I am trying to access Hasura session_variables also, which contains identifier x-hasura-business-id for identifying the business.
The console shows an error about a non-existing postgres function to, which I don't think I'm using.
The code for the SQL function I am trying to create is
--- Create function to check business's department count
CREATE FUNCTION check_dpt_quota()
RETURNS trigger AS $$
    DECLARE department_count INTEGER;
    DECLARE session_variables JSON;

    BEGIN
        session_variables := current_setting('hasura.user', 't');

        SELECT count(*) INTO department_count FROM "public"."department"
            WHERE business_id = (session_variables ->> 'x-hasura-business-id')::uuid;

        IF department_count > 4 THEN
            RAISE EXCEPTION 'Error: Department Quota Exceeded';
        END IF;

        RETURN NEW;
    END;
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

--- Create trigger to run function before INSERT
CREATE TRIGGER insert_department BEFORE INSERT ON "public"."department" FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE check_dpt_quota();

And the error I'm getting while creating the SQL function through Hasura console is
[
    {
        "definition": {
            "schema": "public",
            "name": "to"
        },
        "reason": "in function \"to\": no such function exists in postgres : \"to\"",
        "type": "function"
    }
]

I don't know what I'm doing wrong and the error message is not descriptive enough for me to understand. Can someone help me with this code?

A: Finally figured it out!
There were two mistakes I made.

*

*I checked out the Track this option while running the SQL query
Trigger functions are not to be tracked

*I didn't cast the value current_setting('hasura.user', 't') to type json before assigning it to session_variables
The corrected version of the code will then be (just the modified part)
...
BEGIN
    session_variables := current_setting('hasura.user', 't')::JSON;
...

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Iran Military Facility Rocked by Explosion That Officials Say Was 'Unsuccessful' Drone Attack
Leaked: Twitter Employees Have a Meltdown Over Elon's 'All-Hands' Call
On Thursday, Twitter held an "all hands" virtual meeting for employees to hear from Elon Musk about his plans for the company as they move toward finalizing the deal for him to take over the platform.
Musk has said that he wants to eliminate bots and try to ensure freedom of speech on the platform. Yet that has prompted months of a liberal meltdown over him buying Twitter because they're afraid that not having someone completely in line with their narrative will cost them their media control.
Their reaction seems to have furthered Musk's awakening down the path to voting Republican for the first time as he did this week, going for Mayra Flores to represent the 34th District in South Texas. He also said that he was leaning toward Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for president in 2024.
Project Veritas leaked Musk's remarks to the employees where he said it was essential to have "free speech," it was "important to represent multiple opinions & not driving a narrative," and that there needed to be transparency if people were to trust the platform. Musk concurred, showing that yes, he is likely to inhibit the driving of the "narrative."
But that didn't stop the employees who were hearing his remarks from throwing a tantrum on their private Slack channel. Reuters reported that they were posting memes and complaining about Musk. Project Veritas then leaked the complaints. What's funny about the comments is that they're so concerned about the comments and disinformation that people might make on Twitter, yet the stuff they were posting was such a font of misinformation and liberal bias, that it was easy to see why Twitter has been so left-wing up to this point.
BREAKING: Leaked Internal Slack Messages Show Twitter Employees Reaction to @ElonMusk's #TwitterAllHands Call pic.twitter.com/VMZ1Uoxu4E
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 16, 2022
How out there were they? They were upset that Elon voted for Mayra Flores with some calling her a QAnon supporter and one even saying Musk was a supporter. There is no evidence at all to support that, just a leftist smear on Twitter. They also attacked Elon's claim he was a moderate. Yes, he's not a "moderate" in their eyes — moderate for them probably means someone much further left. If he's leaning toward DeSantis, he's also not a moderate in the way we conservatives might use that term as something of a pejorative. The employees of course demonized his leaning toward DeSantis. One accused him of "homophobia and transphobia" and another called DeSantis' bill the "Don't Say Gay bill" and said he was the worst person. They asked if he was going to continue to combat misinformation when he took over. Maybe they need to check their misinformation because they surely were spewing a lot of it.
They also personally attacked Musk saying things like he said "you know" too much on the call, one mocked that he was called a genius, and one compared what he was saying to the "very fine people" lie (the lie about what Trump supposedly said about Charlottesville Neo-Nazis). Some also had a meltdown when Elon allegedly said: "all lives mattered."
Probably the employee who won the award for stepping in it was this guy.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1537578465813217281
Looks like Twitter Employees are allowed to spread misinformation in their Slack chats but demand that users who post things they disagree with be censored on their platform.
But a reckoning may be coming and this was the thing about which the employees were most concerned.
"There needs to be some rationalization of headcount and expenses. Right now, the costs exceed the revenue. Anyone who's a significant contributor should have nothing to worry about," said Mr. Musk. But they're going to be cutting people.
It's going to be an interesting takeover.
Cavalryman says:
I'll believe it all when I see it. For all we know this might just be a play to get Twitter exposed and then Elon backs out.
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Achill Island Field Report 16: Two Shipwrecks Under Two Lighthouses, 17-18 July 2006
Our final team member has arrived. Dr. Sam Turner is the Director of Archaeology for LAMP (Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program) and also the President of IMH (Institute for Maritime History), two of the institutions sponsoring this research project. He flew in from Florida last night to work with us for our final two weeks on Achill.
On Monday we cannot dive because our boat was already chartered for a group of sport fishermen, which is just as well because Sam will be dealing with jetlag and everyone should be in top condition for these dives, which will be relatively deep (90 feet or 26 m). Instead we stay the night at our friends the Shanleys in Westport, and allow Sam to sleep in Monday morning. In the afternoon, the crew decides to climb Croagh Patrick, the holy mountain which has been a pilgrimage site for thousands of years. Here is Sam near the top of the mountain.
The evening view of a mist-shrouded Clare island from the top of Croagh Patrick. Our first dive the following morning will take place just off this island, which is directly south of Achill.
The next morning dawns and we are in Achill. We are meeting our boat at Kildavnet pier, right next to the tower house built by the powerful O'Malley clan, whose most famous member was the 16th century Pirate Queen Grace O'Malley. Here Sam chats with our captain, local boatbuilder John O'Malley, a descendant of the original owners of the tower.
The Clare Island Fish Farm, whose facilities are located on the former site of a 19th century Coastguard station on Achill at Cloghmore, has agreed to let us use their banks to fill our scuba tanks. Their underwater salmon pens are close to the first shipwreck we will be diving on each day. Every morning we arrive early, drop off our gear at the pier, drive down the road to the Fish Farm to fill the tanks, and then return to the pier to meet the boat for our dives. Then we set off for our first dive on the shipwreck we have nicknamed the "Train Wreck." Here LAMP archaeologists Chuck Meide and Sam Turner prepare for the first dive on this wreck shortly after anchoring off Clare Island.
The wreck is located in an anchorage under the Clare Island Lighthouse.
This light station was established in 1806 to mark the safe route between Clare Island and Achill Island. Entering Clew Bay below Clare Island was a much more dangerous route, fraught with barely submerged rocks. The area to the southwest of the lighthouse was a safe anchorage with sheltered from the prevailing winds by the bulk of the island.
The shipwreck below, unlike the Jenny at Achill Beg to the north, is intact and appears to have foundered while at anchor. It is believed that the ship was plying a coastal route and sprung a leak. It probably made it to this anchorage, where repairs were attempted, but due to the heavy cargo the bottommost part of the ship was inaccessible and, probably after hours at the pumps, she sank to the bottom in 90 feet of water. Local divers discovered the site and noticed that the ship was loaded with a cargo of what appeared to be train parts. Railroads came to this area in the 1880s, and the ship might date to this period.
Anchored over the site, we are excited about seeing this shipwreck for the first time. Norine Carroll and Captain O'Malley help Sam gear up for the first dive.
At a depth of 90 feet, the divers will only have 30 minutes of working time to descent to the wreck and accomplish their goals. Staying any longer will put them at risk of developing decompression sickness or the bends, which is caused by a build-up of nitrogen in the divers' bodies. We are using U.S. Navy diving tables, which help us plan safe dive times depending on what depth we will be working at. Once geared up, Sam enters the water.
The divers submerge and descend down stout line which is anchored on the bottom somewhere near the wreck. Sam's buddy for this dive is Kevin Cullen, graduate student from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Their task for this first dive is to locate the wreck, which they will do by swimming a circle search. This is done by hammering a stake of iron rebar into the bottom, stretching a tape measure out from it and swimming in a circular search pattern, hoping to either see or snag the wreck. Here Sam has set up the search line, and is taking a compass bearing so that he will know when they have completed a full circle.
But the divers are lucky, and they come upon the wreckage almost immediately! Spread out before Sam and Kevin is a large pile of debris, including a wide variety of iron objects covered with a layer of concretion and sea growth.
Most of these objects are not easily recognizable, but the divers do think much of this sunken cargo might be train undercarriage components.
Sam and Kevin slowly explore the large, oval-shaped mound of wreckage, which is over ten meters in length.
At the far end of the wreck, believed to be the stern end, Sam notices wooden hull timbers protruding from the sand.
This certainly confirms that this ship was a wooden-hulled vessel, and closer inspection of the hull remains will help us better understand its construction and possibly let us date the vessel. There is still enough time for Sam to start a scaled drawing of the hull remains, which he will end up finishing on his dive tomorrow.
Sam's drawing of the hull remains as sketched after his first dive.
After the completion of the first dive, Chuck Meide and Norine Carroll enter the water. Our task is to first move the heavily weighted buoy line to the wreck and tie it off to the wreckage, and then if time allows to set in a baseline over the wreck in order to accurately map its dimensions and layout on future dives. Dragging the buoy line underwater is a more difficult task than initially envisioned, as its weights are heavy and pulling over 90 feet of line and two buoys through the water column is a significant task. But the task is completed and the line is tied off to the wreck, so that we will have a direct line from the surface to the shipwreck for descents and ascents.
During our dive we notice an abundance of marine life, including several conger eels like the one pictured here. These cold-water cousins of the moray eel can deliver a dangerous bite if provoked.
Our final task is to lay in a baseline. After struggling to deal with the buoy, we have burned a lot of air and are limited on time, but we manage to use a hammer to pound in two rebar stakes, one at each end of the wreck. Between these we string a tape measure directly across the center of the shipwreck's cargo pile. From this baseline we will be able to measure offsets from known points on the line to the edges of the pile, or to individual objects, to produce a map of the shipwreck.
After every dive, we pause on our ascent line at a depth of around 15' for a safety stop. This allows the divers to off-gas some of the nitrogen that has built up in their system during the dive. We have decided to conduct a 7 minute safety stop after every dive on this wreck, which would be the mandatory stop time if we were to stay on the bottom for longer than the prescribed 30 minutes. Here is Norine at the safety stop.
Back on the boat, we relax for a bit after the dives. Everyone is excited after this dive. This shipwreck is intriguing, very intact, and simply a great dive! We are also pleased that we have accomplished so much on the first day of diving on it. After two dives, we have located the wreck, established a buoy line to it, begun recording the wreck, and set a baseline in place for further mapping operations. We consider this a very successful start to the investigation of this mystery wreck. But now it is time to leave Clare Island for our second dive, on the 1894 wreck of the Jenny.
Located only about 4.1 km or 2.6 miles away from the Train wreck, the wreck of the Jenny is in a completely different environment, and that has drastically affected the site formation processes that have made this a scattered spread of wreckage over a rocky, high-energy, multi-depthed bottom as opposed to an intact deep-water wreck on a flat sandy bottom. It is challenging but fun to be working on two such different shipwrecks at the same time. Because of its depth, we could not do a second dive on the Train wreck, but as the Jenny is in only 35 feet of water it is well-suited for our second series of dives each day.
Our vessel the Naomh Davnait maneuvers in the waters over the Jenny, under the sight of the tall cliffs of Achill Beg and the Achill Beg Lighthouse to the east.
Here Sam and Kevin are deploying a buoy on some more of the scattered wreckage they have identified.
From that point they are swimming a search transect using a buoy to keep in a straight line at an angle of about 310 degrees. They stretch out a tape measure to act as a guideline, because it is very easy to get lost in all of these kelp-swathed gullies even with a compass.
They then search back and forth on either side of the tape measure line, marking any wreckage they find with flagging tape, such as these pieces of partially buried logwood.
One interesting artifact they come across is an intact hull timber with a large copper-alloy bolt. The bolt appears shiny and new because of the sand with is constantly moving back and forth across its surface with the surge, effectively polishing it. This would have been a large hull timber such as a section of the ship's keel or a frame.
An even more exciting discovery awaits. Sam and Kevin have found a large brass fitting with wooden remains attached to its inner surface. Sam immediately recognizes it as one of the rudder's pintles. This was a large, brass strap that wrapped around the rudder, featuring a sturdy pin on the inboard surface. This pin would have fit into the gudgeon, a similar strap that was attached to the stern of the ship, with a loop to accept the pintle pin. The rudder was hung onto the stern of the ship by these pintles, which allowed it to pivot and steer the ship. This find, located over 30 meters from the main cluster of wreckage which has been buoyed, marks the approximate location of the stern of the ship, though of course this vessel has broken up and lies scattered about. On a subsequent dive, Chuck measures the dimensions of and makes a detailed sketch of the pintle.
A buoy is tied off to the pintle so that it can be easily relocated, and so that we can see its position in relation to our other buoys once on the surface.
Chuck's sketch of the pintle.
This is a photograph of the cove where we are diving, showing our boat at anchor near the site of the Jenny.
This detail of the above photo has been enlarged and labeled to show the boat in relation to the two buoys denoting the main cluster of artifacts, and the third buoy over the recently-discovered pintle.
Smiles are on everyone's face after such great dives. The forecast is calling for good weather all week long, which is quite a rarity on Achill. With the acquisition of a good diving boat, the arrival of our full crew, and a week of good weather, things have really come together and we are expecting to accomplish a lot this week. As we motor back to the pier, we pass under the Achill Beg Lighthouse. It was built in 1965 to replace the light at Clare Island which went defunct when the light station passed into private hands. Our captain, John O'Malley, is not only a third generation boatbuilder but the keeper for this lighthouse. Sam and I also work at a lighthouse, back in St. Augustine, Florida with LAMP, so we are delighted to be diving on two shipwrecks under the reassuring gaze of two lighthouses.
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Just yesterday Football Leaks stated that FIFA had intervened in Financial Fair Play matters for Manchester City and PSG not to get affected by restrictions. Now the highest international body of the sport has responded to these allegations with a statement on their website.
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Listen to executive director, Amy Amador, share about how Mercy Education Project helps women and girls improve their education on Destination 313 on WJR 760 AM. Click here to go to the Destination 313 website to download the podcast.
Mercy Education Project (MEP) has recently completed its Strategic Plan for 2012-14. Using a process led by Board and Administration and relying heavily on input from MEP Staff as well as a large number of internal and external stakeholders, this Strategic Plan is embedded in two critical concepts: Sustainability and Scalability.
Watch a video of one student's struggle to overcome illiteracy.
We are Reading Works -- an organization of diverse leaders from the business, education, media, civic and faith communities -- dedicated to significantly boosting adult literacy in metro Detroit.
We recognize a sad truth: Metro Detroit has far too many functionally illiterate adults, people often reading below a fifth-grade level, unable to complete a job application or read to their children.
Thirty-eight-year-old Luvanis O'Neal kept her secret for more than 20 years by hiding in silence behind a sweet, demure smile. It was easier being quiet. Nobody asked questions of the shy girl.
She was short and rail thin, a size 4, and made herself even smaller by blending into the crowd, never causing trouble and never speaking out, using all kinds of tricks to keep that secret.
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On a larger scale, Michigan's literacy issue is about losing hold of the future: losses in workers' earning potential, an eroded tax base, a drain on social services and higher health care costs.
Detroit — You wouldn't it know from looking at the Mercy Education Project's unsuspecting brick building in southwest Detroit — but there's a story of educational magic that happens within its walls.
Sister Maureen Mulcrone and colleague Amy Amador, a social worker, brought an important message to Plymouth March 15.
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"She had a child and then she had another child," Sister Mulcrone said. Embarrassment came when Melissa couldn't help her children with schoolwork.
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Mercy Education Project Hosts "Doorway To The Future"
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"Eighty percent of the women who complete our program, get the GED, will go on to college, job placement or full employment," says Amy Amador -Executive Director of the Mercy Education Project.
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