One of the most read bloggers and columnist writing about Wall St is Joshua M Brown – The Reformed Broker. His latest column was superb so I thought I would repost it for those who have not had a chance to read it ….
The rat runs left and reaches the cheese. He is rewarded by the maze. Guess which direction he runs the next time through. And the next. And the next.
Run left, get cheese. Run left, get cheese.
Another rat is dropped in and proceeds to run right. No cheese. He gets an electric shock instead. Guess which direction he never runs in again.
The longer this goes on for, the more ingrained the conditioning. Tentative dip-buying gives way to confident leaps into the breach. This is why the dips become short and shallow while the recoveries become v-shaped. No time to lose!
This is when the first wave of doubt sets in and the conditioning wears off. There are less buyers coming in because the reward is no longer instantaneous. Where's the cheese?
Peaks are formed in a given investment market as the realization slowly dawns that the good feelings are not automatic anymore. They say that bottoms are an event (no one left to sell!) and tops are process. They're right. Which makes the term "peak" itself a misnomer. Markets top in a hill formation – a gradual course of persistently lower highs alter the slope of the market and round it downward as investor enthusiasm fades.
One of the least understood things about the stock market crashes of 1987 and 1929 is that they did not begin from all-time record highs. They each happened several weeks after record highs had been established. In '29 the Dow Jones topped out during the week before Labor Day. The months of September and October went by in a sort of suspended animation – investors bought more stocks but the automatic gains – the instant karma – of the prior few years failed to materialize. Where's the cheese?
In the case of 1987, the Dow Jones hit its high in late July and then for weeks and weeks investors sat there wondering where the reward was for their latest purchases. There wouldn't be a reward. It was an electric shock instead, occurring ten weeks or so after the positive feedback loop ceased to hold up its end of the bargain. I buy stocks, they go up. I buy stocks they go up. I buy stocks they…wait a minute, what gives? This thing isn't working right anymore.
I use the examples of '87 and '29 not because I believe they are a good analog to now, but because they are extreme examples and highly illustrative of the breakdown in conditioning. The automatic, predictable gains stop showing up and confusion sets in. And then frustration. Finally, fear.
Which brings us to the present. The S&P 500 sits just a few percentage points from its all-time record high. And although we're elevated, it is important to note that the major averages have made no upward progress since Thanksgiving 2014. This after years of compound annual returns of around 20%. We haven't fallen, but with every passing week, more and more investors are asking themselves where's the cheese?
Beneath the surface, there is a very different picture forming. The average S&P 500 stock is down 15% from its 52-week high. The positive feedback loop has been broken across vast swathes of the US stock market. Energy, Materials, Utilities, Technology, IPOs, REITs, Small Caps – one by one, our hearts are broken. The feedback is all negative. I buy stocks, they go down. I buy more stocks, they go even lower. Shock, shock, shock.
What is a rat to do? Can't run left because there's no cheese anymore. Can't run right because it hurts. Fear sets in. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
We're not quite there yet. There is real fear but the anger part hasn't manifested itself. Although the individual losses are piling up and the gains in the overall market are failing to offset them, it is far from resolved.
The maze is closing in on us.
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Q: Check cells emptiness of a certain column, if all of them are, hide whole column I'm trying to check if s with class 'checkthisone' are empty, and if they are hide whole column. I am trying to do this via jquery. The table is created in loop from a wordpress page so I could not find a way to do that with php.
The table HTML is like this:

            header
            header
            header

            info

            info

            info

            info

The PHP code that displays the table is here: https://paste.ee/p/yrQpg
I want to check cells with class 'temizleme' in this code. The relevant section is:
while ( $query->have_posts() ) : $query->the_post();
    ?>

            <a class="mangaep-episode" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'kacinci_bolum', true );  ?>
            <?php $bolum_aciklamasi = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'bolum_aciklamasi', true);
                if ( ! empty ( $bolum_aciklamasi ) ) {  ?>
                <?php echo $bolum_aciklamasi;  ?>
                <?php } ?>

        <?php if(function_exists('the_views')) { the_views(); } ?>
        <?php echo get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'cevirmen', true );  ?>
        <?php echo get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'editor', true );  ?>
        <?php echo get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'temizleme', true );  ?>

                <?php $indirme_linki = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'indirme_linki', true);
                if ( ! empty ( $indirme_linki ) ) { ?>
                <a target="_blank" href="<?php echo $indirme_linki;  ?>" class="mangaep-down">İNDİR
                <?php } ?>

A: Exclude the
 in your PHP
To exclude an entire row:

*

*get the post_meta value(s) at the start of the while loop

*Check if it is empty or not

*If it isn't empty, display the row.

For example, to check the value in the temizleme in the post_meta:
<?php
while ( $query->have_posts() ) : $query->the_post();

   /* 1. Get the post_meta value of temizleme */
   $temizleme = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'temizleme', true );

    /* 2. check if temizleme has a value */
    if (!empty($temizleme)) {

        /* 3. if temizleme isn't empty, display the row */
        ?>

                <a class="mangaep-episode" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'kacinci_bolum', true );  ?>
                <?php $bolum_aciklamasi = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'bolum_aciklamasi', true);
                    if ( ! empty ( $bolum_aciklamasi ) ) {  ?>
                    <?php echo $bolum_aciklamasi;  ?>
                    <?php } ?>

            <?php if(function_exists('the_views')) { the_views(); } ?>
            <?php echo get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'cevirmen', true );  ?>
            <?php echo get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'editor', true );  ?>
            <?php echo get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'temizleme', true );  ?>

                <?php $indirme_linki = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'indirme_linki', true);
                if ( ! empty ( $indirme_linki ) ) { ?>
                    <a target="_blank" href="<?php echo $indirme_linki;  ?>" class="mangaep-down">İNDİR
                <?php } ?>

    <?php  } /* 3. end if (!empty(temizleme)) */  ?>

<?php  endwhile; ?>

Check more than one value
The code you linked to is different to the code you included in your question so I'm not sure exactly what you need to check.
So if you want to check more than one value, just get all of the values at the start of the while loop and check if they have values.
If they ALL must have a value use && in your if statement, if ANY can have a value use ||. e.g.
<?php
while ( $query->have_posts() ) : $query->the_post();

   /* 1. Get the post_meta values to check */
   $temizleme = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'temizleme', true );
   $kacinci_bolum= get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'kacinci_bolum', true );

    /* 2. check that BOTH have a value */
    if (!empty($temizleme) && !empty($kacinci_bolum)) {
    ?>

            [... display your tds the same way as above...]

    <?php  } /* end if (!empty...) */  ?>
<?php  endwhile;   ?>

To Hide a Column in your PHP
To check the values of a column, you will need to:

*

*Loop through the posts, saving the values into an array

*Check all the values of "temizleme" in the array, and if any of them have a value, set a flag to use when displaying the table (e.g. we set $bTemizlemeColumnIsEmpty to false in the example below)

*Loop through the data array to display the information in the table. If our flag indicates the column is empty (i.e. $bTemizlemeColumnIsEmpty is true), then don't display the  for "temizleme"

For example:
<?php

$postdata = array(); /* array to save data for ALL posts */

while ( $query->have_posts() ) : $query->the_post();

   /* 1. Save all the post data in an array */
   $row = array(); /* array to save data for THIS post */

   $row["temizleme"] = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'temizleme', true );
   $row["kacinci_bolum"] = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'kacinci_bolum', true );
   $row["bolum_aciklamasi"] = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'bolum_aciklamasi', true );

   [etc...]

   $postdata[]  = $row; /* add this data to the $postdata array */
<?php  endwhile;   ?>

/* 2. check the values of temizleme */

$bTemizlemeColumnIsEmpty = true;
foreach ($postdata as $row)
    if (!empty($row["temizleme"]))  $bTemizlemeColumnIsEmpty = false;

/* if any of the cells have a value, $bTemizlemeColumnIsEmpty will be false after we finish this loop */

/* 3. now loop through all the row to display the table */
foreach ($postdata as $row){
?>

                <a class="mangaep-episode" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo $row["kacinci_bolum"];  ?>
                <?php if ( ! empty ( $row["bolum_aciklamasi"] ) ) { ?>
                    <?php echo $row["bolum_aciklamasi"];  ?>
                    <?php } ?>

            <?php if(function_exists('the_views')) { the_views(); } ?>
            <?php echo $row["cevirmen"];  ?>
            <?php echo $row["editor"];  ?>

            <?php
            /* 4. only display this td if  $bTemizlemeColumnIsEmpty is false */
            if ( !$bTemizlemeColumnIsEmpty ){
            ?>
                <?php echo $row["temizleme"];  ?>
            <?php  }   ?>

                <?php if ( ! empty ( $row["indirme_linki"] ) ) {    ?>
                    <a target="_blank" href="<?php echo $row["indirme_linki"];  ?>" class="mangaep-down">İNDİR
                <?php } ?>

<?php  } /* end foreach */  ?>

A: Try this approach:
$(document).ready(function(){

   $(".checkthisone").each(function(){   // check each class
      if($(this).text() == ""){         // if the  has nothing in it, enter this condition
         $(this).parent("tr").hide();   // hide the entire

      }
   });
});

$(document).ready(function(){

   $(".checkthisone").each(function(){
      if($(this).text() == ""){
         $(this).parent("tr").hide();
      }
   });
});

            header
            header
            header

            info

            info

            info
            stuff
            info

A: The simplest solution is to make use of :empty selector

$( "#checking-tds-header" ).hide();
$( "td.checkthisone:empty" ).hide();

            header
            header
            header

            info

            info

            info

            info

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HomeBasketballInstant Juice: Syracuse 84, Eastern Michigan 48
Instant Juice: Syracuse 84, Eastern Michigan 48
November 29, 2011 Wes Cheng Basketball
A quick take on Syracuse's 84-48 win against Eastern Michigan:
WHAT HAPPENED: The Eagles started the game shooting 9-of-14 from the field, and led 21-18 with 8:01 left in the first half. From there, the Orange took over, going on a 20-3 run that extended into the second half. The run was capped by a Kris Joseph 3-pointer, one of three shots beyond the arc on the run. Joseph's shot put SU up 39-24 with 17:33 left in the game, and the Orange would lead by double-digits the rest of the way. It was a robust shooting game for the Orange, as SU shot 50 percent from from the field and 13-for-30 from 3-point range.
ANALYSIS: The Orange showed no ill-effects in its first game following the dismissal of long-time Syracuse assistant coach Bernie Fine. Like Syracuse's game against Colgate, a large contingent of media including USA Today and the New York Times were on hand, but it proved not to be a distraction as far as the game was concerned. Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim received a loud ovation before the start of the game from the fans and enjoyed a nice moment during warmups with former assistant coach Rob Murphy, now head coach of Eastern Michigan.
On the basketball court, the Orange struggled for the first eight minutes of the game, as Murphy's team employed a 2-3 zone of their own. SU frequently settled for jumpers in the early going before finding cracks on both baselines. The same could be said of Syracuse's own defense, which was late on several rotations in the early going before finding its stride. For the game, Syracuse forced 17 turnovers and outrebounded Eastern Michigan 36-26.
HERO: After playing just seven minutes and scoring zero points at Madison Square Garden, James Southerland made an auspicious return to the Carrier Dome, tying a career high 19 points. While it was a nice night for the junior, Southerland's performance to date have been directly related to the quality of the opposing team. It doesn't bode well for him heading into the Big East season. Darrell Lampley led the Eagles with 19 points.
ZERO: One game after leading the Eagles with 14 points in a loss to Michigan State, guard JR Sims struggled against Syracuse. He scored seven points on 2-for-14 shooting from the field, and missed all five of his 3-point attempts.
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Q: Imaginary quadratic extensions in characteristic 2 Let $\mathbb{F}_q$ be finite field with characteristic 2 and consider the polynomial ring $A=\mathbb{F}_q[T]$. Denote $F=\mathbb{F}_q(T)$.
Let $f(x)=ax^2+bx+c\in A[x]$ be irreducible. I'm trying to prove that if $\deg(a)+\deg(c)$ is odd, then the splitting field $K$ of $f(x)$ is imaginary, i.e. $f(x)$ remains irreducible over the completion $F_\infty$. I've done a few examples, but I'm not really seeing a pattern that would help me prove this. Any hints?


January was a brilliant month for Bristol DAWG with seven dogs finding their forever homes and we still have adoptions in the pipeline for February.
We are getting busier and busier and travelling further afield to home our hounds which is greyt. Keeping spreading the word.
We would like to say a massive "thank you" to Amy Wilson and her team at Support Adoption For Pets for the following cheques which we have received from the Santa Paws Appeal in December 2016. Thank you also to everyone who very kindly helped collect in store during this period.
Thank you to all the staff at all three stores for making us so welcome.
We would like to thank Jane Crow for her very generous donation on Justgiving to help with Sassy and Milly.
Thank you Jane you are extremely kind. We promise these two little girls won't want for anything now they are in our care.
Sassy is going back to the vet tomorrow so we should have an update, and Milly going back to the vets in two weeks. Both dogs need to improve substantially before they can be vaccinated.
Nicky Bromhall and her amazing team at Animal Health Centre, Bristol, (vets used by Bristol DAWG for foster dogs and trustees own dogs), are undertaking a fundraising event to raise funds for the charity.
Nicky and her team will be undertaking the 5k and 10k night run in Leigh Woods on Saturday, 25th February starting at 5.30pm. If you are around please pop along, all the trustees will be there with our collecting buckets and dogs to cheer them over the finishing line.
If you would like to sponsor everyone at Animal Health Centre this can be done by logging onto our Justgiving page on our website. Just a couple of pounds will make a difference to the dogs in our care. Please mark donation so we know it is for the Night Run.
Thank you Nicky and the team for the brilliant veterinary care you provide to Bristol DAWG.
Sassy has been back to the vets today to see if she is well enough to be vaccinated, check her ears and examine her skin.
What a brilliant job Ann and Barry have done with this little girl. Sassy has put on 2kg this week, three small meals a day seems to be doing the job!! Her ear infection has completely cleared, she has had her first vaccination, her skin is so much better and 95% of the sores on her body have now stopped weeping. She just has some antibiotic cream for the few areas which still look a little red and angry. What a long way this sweet little girl has come in a short space of time. She doesn't need to return to the vets for a month now as they are so pleased that she is moving in the right direction.
Thank you to everyone who has asked about this lovely little girl.
Massive thanks to Anne Maddox, Community Champion at Asda Filton, for supporting the work we do. We have today received a cheque for £200 from the green token scheme. Thank you Anne you have always been very kind to Bristol DAWG.
Congratulations to Nicky Bromhall, who has been nominated for Vet of the Year in the Petplan Veterinary Awards and to her practice, the Animal Health Centre, a nominee in the Veterinary Practice of the Year category.
Thank you to Zelah Ellis who invited the Worth Gang along to visit Beaufort Hall today. I think the residents enjoyed the dogs. Malcolm was especially generous with his kisses.
We have been advised today that Ice and Nano will be leaving Spain to travel to the UK on the 17th May - another two lucky galgos.
The hunting season has now finished in Spain and there will be hundreds of unwanted galgos who will suffer greatly, so although we are only able to help two dogs at the moment, Nano and Ice have a lot to look forward to.
Quick update on Milly, the sweet little girl who arrived with Bristol DAWG just over a fortnight ago in very bad condition and extremely thin. Her owner said that he couldn't keep any weight on her and that she suffered from separation anxiety!!!
Denise Smart to the rescue, super foster mum, Milly went back to the vets today for a check up and she has put on 4kg - she now weighs 23kg, all her pressure sores have nearly disappeared, and she was well enough to have her first vaccination today.
She also has to have a dental, which is planned shortly.
As for separation anxiety - Denise says she is the perfect house guest.
Massive thanks Denise you do an amazing job with your fosters.
Bella (formerly Marie) has settled in amazingly well with the Sainsbury family, they reckon she's been reading "How to be the Perfect Dog"!
She loves her walks, her garden, her food, her bed, everything!
More good news, Tommy has found his forever sofa in Cheltenham with Tamandra. Tommy is now called Sponge and looks extremely happy to have been chosen.
Lovely, lovely boy - another lucky dog to have been saved by Eila Moloney.
Thank you to Sarah Kendall, who very kindly drove to Cheltenham to do the home check.
Gerry spent a lovely hour this morning with Gaye in Pucklechurch. Gaye has adopted the lovely Robin who is now living with four other dogs, two border terriers, a springer spaniel and a bull lurcher and is having a really good time!! Gaye has a massive paddock attached to her property so loads of space to run and play - what a lucky boy.
Thank you Gaye for giving Robin a wonderful new home.
Massive thanks to Nick and Sharon Foulger for fostering Robin whilst he was waiting for his forever home - another brilliant job.
What a long way this little lad has come since being thrown from a car on the ring road!!
More dogs coming from our very good friend Eila arriving Saturday morning. As always very grateful to Kristie and James Davies for getting up in the early hours to settle the dogs in.
The trustees would like to say a massive, massive 'thank you' to Megan and Kim for all their hard work in organising yet another successful charity auction. Lots of hard work goes on behind the scenes to organise such an event - well done girls, as always we are soooooooo grateful, as are the dogs we care for, but they can't tell you!!
Thanks also to all our wonderful supporters who bid so generously to help us with the work we do. This month our vet bills will be higher than normal, so thank you for every penny you bid.
We will have a final figure later today but we are hoping that it should be over £1,000, which is amazing.
Every month we have to find between £3,200 - £3,500 to keep the charity running, and some months it definitely isn't easy, especially if we have extra big vet bills, so as you can imagine this money is very gratefully received.
Bristol DAWG will be represented at a table top sale at St Peter's Church, Frampton Cotterell on Saturday 4 March between 14.00 and 16.00 hrs.
Thank you to Jan Lazenby for arranging this and manning the stall.
Lovely news to end the week, our sweet little Sorcha has found her forever sofa in Tewkesbury, Gloucester with Martin and Mandi. Sorcha (now renamed Mouse) has gone to live with the very handsome Juke (Saluki x) who Martin and Mandi adopted from Bristol DAWG a little while ago. The dogs are getting on well and Mouse has settled quickly, thank you for giving her a lovely home.
We must also say a massive "thank you" to Suzy and Charlie Roberts (not forgetting Teddy) for fostering Mouse while she was waiting to be adopted. You did an amazing job, thank you so much.
Bristol DAWG trustees and other halves attended the Wild Night Run at Leigh Woods in support of Nicki and the girls of the Animal Health Centre, who ran for DAWG. Thank you ladies so very much. It was a chilly wet muddy night and we took eleven dogs along as additional support!


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The Battle of Boroughbridge and Myton
When Edward II (1307-1327) came to the English throne he looked every inch a Plantagenet – but there any resemblance to his father (Edward I) or his son (Edward III) ended. Regarded by most historians (and by most of the population of the time) as a fool and a fop, he chose fools and scoundrels as his advisors and favourites. He half-heartedly, and disastrously, continued the bloody dispute with Scotland but was, in addition, beset by unrest in England where the most persistent of his opponents was his powerful cousin Thomas of Lancaster, who held five earldoms and maintained a large army.
The crushing defeat of Edward's armies by the inferior force of Robert Bruce at Bannockburn (1314) was largely attributable to Edward's ineptness and his failure to listen to good advice, but a contributory factor was the refusal of Lancaster to go to the aid of his monarch.
In the years immediately following Edward's humiliation, Lancaster became the power behind the throne. Unfortunately he was neither wiser nor braver than the king he controlled. In particular, he allowed the Scots, flushed with victory, to mount ever more daring, plundering raids into England's northern counties.
In 1318 the Scots stormed over the border burning and looting Northallerton, Knaresborough and Boroughbridge. Ripon escaped burning by paying a ransom of 1,000 marks but the church at Aldborough was destroyed (the present one dates from 1330). The Scots returned north driving cattle and prisoners before them and burning Skipton on the way.
The following year, while Edward was besieging Berwick, a Scottish army under the Earl of Murray and Lord James Douglas pushed south into Northern England with sword and torch as far as the gates of York. Boroughbridge was once again among the towns pillaged and burned during the incursion.
Having failed in their intention to capture the English Queen, then in residence at York, the Scots turned north again. The Archbishop of York meanwhile raised an "army" of 10,000 untrained men – mostly peasants, monks, priests, choristers and the like – and set off in pursuit of the Scots.
AmbushedLearning of the chase, the Scots lay in wait at Myton-on-Swale, less than three miles from Boroughbridge, where the River Ure joins the Swale. They tempted the English rabble onto the triangle of land between the two rivers and, cutting off the possibility of retreat across the bridge over the Swale, fell upon them. Many panicking Englishmen were drowned, more were slaughtered, including over 200 monks whose corpses were left on the field, their white habits drenched with their blood – which is how it became known as "The White Battle".
Meanwhile the troubles between Edward and the English barons continued. The king's popularity continued to wane and, in the aftermath of his successive humiliations at the hands of the Scots, Lancaster decided the time was ripe for full scale rebellion. But a group of nobles led by the Earl of Pembroke, disillusioned by Lancaster's incompetence, joined the king and turned the tide against the rebellious Earl.
Nothing truly decisive occurred until February 1322 when, hearing that his enemy was besieging the castle of Tickhill near Doncaster, Edward ordered his army north. Lancaster, heavily outnumbered, and having lost most of his stores and much of his force, retreated to his castle at Pontefract. Here he hoped to stand against the king but his allies urged (at dagger point according to one account) further retreat to his castle at Dunstanburgh in Northumberland where they hoped Robert Bruce would come to their aid. Lancaster reluctantly acceded and he and his knights set out with their small force of 700 men but on reaching Boroughbridge they found Sir Andrew Harcla, Governor of Carlisle, in possession of the bridge and the ford.
Harcla had deployed his knights and a number of pikemen at the north end of the bridge – a wooden structure on the site of the present bridge over the Ure. More pikemen were placed on the Milby side of the ford just down river from the bridge. Archers were placed on slightly higher ground just behind with orders to keep up a constant rain of arrows as the enemy approached.
Lancaster had either to force the river or turn south to face the advancing forces of the king. Fighting Harcla seemed the lesser of the two evils. The battle took place on 16 March and is described in The Lanercost Chronicles (which account is here slightly abridged):
"When the enemy saw that Sir Andrew held the north side of the bridge, they formed the plan that the Duke of Hereford and his son-in-law Sir Roger Clifford should go on foot with their men and seize the bridge while the Duke of Lancaster should take up his position by the ford with the rest of the mounted troops, and capture the river crossing from the pikemen.
"When the Duke of Hereford preceded by his standard-bearer, Sir Ralph Applinsdene, and Sir Roger Clifford started boldly across the bridge and rushed bravely on their enemies, the Duke was pierced by pike-thrusts from every side and killed upon the bridge."
One of these thrusts, from a Welsh pikeman who had craftily stationed himself underneath the bridge, came up through a chink in the decking. Sir Roger was also gravely wounded and barely managed to escape.
Meanwhile Lancaster's cavalry, attempting to cross the river at the ford, were kept back and thrown into confusion by the hail of arrows discharged by Harcla's archers. By now many of Lancaster's men were deserting as were the leaderless men of Hereford and Clifford.
Suing for peace"The Duke (Lancaster) then sent envoys to Sir Andrew seeking a truce until the next morning when he would either join battle or surrender himself. "
The next day Harcla – now reinforced by Sir Simon Ward, Sheriff of Yorkshire, and 400 men – crossed the bridge into the town where they began rounding up the remnants of Lancaster's force. Lancaster himself sought sanctuary in the church (which was then on St. James's Square where the fountain now stands) but Harcla's men broke sanctuary and dragged him out, stripped off his armour and dressed him in the clothes of one of his servants. He was then sent by river to York.
Edward took Pontefract Castle without resistance and ordered Lancaster to be brought to him there and "had him sentenced to be drawn, hung and beheaded; he did this without the consent of Parliament and without taking weightier and more rational advice."
Because of the condemned man's royal connections the first two parts of the sentence were never carried out and he was merely beheaded, according to some accounts, facing north in recognition of his traitorous alliance with the Scots. The prior and monks of Pontefract are said to have asked for and obtained his body which was buried on the right of the high altar of the Priory Church where miraculous cures were later claimed by those who came to regard him as a martyr and saint.
Some thirty of Lancaster's knights and barons were executed and their heads or bodies displayed in various parts of the country as a warning to others. More had to pay ransom to the king but some escaped to France (and were later to play a part in the downfall of Edward at the hands of his Queen Isabella and her lover Robert Mortimer, another old enemy of Edward's). All the escapees were outlawed — including one Robert (later Robin) Hood of Wakefield.
Only months after the Battle of Boroughbridge, Edward was again attacking, retreating from and (at Byland Abbey) being defeated by the Scots. Harcla, who had been summoned to Edward's aid, dawdled with his force at Boroughbridge. He was captured, tried, found guilty of collusion with the Scots, and (as foretold by Lancaster it is claimed) executed. Edward himself was murdered at Berkeley Castle in 1327 while being held prisoner by his wife Isabella and his son Edward III (although Mortimer is credited with being the man behind the deed). And so all the principal characters of the Battle of Boroughbridge, victors and vanquished alike, died violent deaths within five years of each other.
According to Alex Leadman (Battles Fought in Yorkshire) "A clustered column of freestone was erected to commemorate the Battle. It is eighteen feet in height, formed of shafts banded together, and enriched with foliage – evidently fourteenth century work. For over 500 years it stood in the market place of Boroughbridge [the Butter Market at the foot of the High Street] until 21 April 1852, when this venerated and weather-worn landmark of history was removed to Aldborough where it now stands."
Ronald Walker, Boroughbridge Historical Society
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Action Theatre's journey into personal, political and theatrical memories continues, taking in Mafia Transvestites in Berlin on the eve of Chernobyl, the beginning of AIDS, the fall of the Greek colonels, the outbreak of the first Gulf war, while working in Hollywood, flying carpets, flying elephants and horses with wings, and ask the questions: were Hansel and Gretel obsese Capitalists, Socialists or psychotic, incestuous serial killers? And are Test Tube Babies also addicted to violent, Internet Pomography?
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Bismillah Housing Scheme is located near G.T Road Manawan Stop, Lahore. It offers 3 Marla to 1 Kanal commercial, residential plots and houses for sale or rent. It features mosques in its different blocks, Bismillah Housing Scheme main park, schools, hospital, graveyard, green belts, restaurants, cafe and shopping centers. It has all the basic and luxurious facilities like electricity, gas, water, sewerage system, swimming pool, jogging track, playground, security staff, fitness club and community centers.
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E-Shram Card: Know all about key features, benefits and registration process here
A total of 37,23,639 registrations took place on the portal from all over the country in the last 24 hours, as per the data shared by the Union ministry of labour and employment. With 52.83 per cent registrations, women applicants are ahead of men (47.17).
Publish Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2022 01:49 PM IST
New Delhi | Jagran Business Desk: The ministry of labour under the government of India launched the E-Shram portal in August 2021. The portal has seen as many as 20 crore registrations so far. E-Shram was launched to maintain a database of workers in the unorganised industries.
A total of 37,23,639 registrations took place on the portal from all over the country in the last 24 hours, as per the data shared by the Union ministry of labour and employment. With 52.83 per cent registrations, women applicants are ahead of men (47.17). The data was updated by the ministry and labour employment on Friday.
With a majority of 45.29 per cent OBC workers top the list of registration, then comes the general category with 25. 90 per registration. While scheduled caste was in the third position with 21.98 per cent and lastly the scheduled tribe with 6. 93 per cent registration.
Here's how to register on the E-Shram portal:
Step 1: Go to the official page -- eshram.gov.in
Step 2: On the homepage of the website, there you will find the 'register on e-SHRAM' link -- click on that
Step 3: Once clicked, you will land on a new page, which will be the registration page
Step 4: On the self-registration page, the user is required to enter their Aadhaar linked mobile number
Step 5: Now enter the captcha and select that if you are a member of Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) or the Employee's State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) option and click on send OTP
Step 6: The user will now receive an OTP
Step 7: Now the user has to follow the subsequent process by entering bank account details in order to complete the registration process.
Benefits of the E-Shram portal:
The workers who will register themselves on the E-SHRAM portal will receive a 12 digit unique number from the Centre. With the help of the portal, it aims to help various social security schemes of the central government easily reach the labourers and workers.
Documents required to register on E-Shram:
- Aadhaar Card
- Aadhaar-linked mobile number
- Valid bank account
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A voice/call-processing option for improving call center functionality and integration. It enables callers to have more flexibility to access information or leave messages. Use of this option can "offload" call volume from agents to the IVR or improve load balancing by having agents handle recorded messages during slow periods. A slowly growing number of IVR developers are now using speech recognition in their applications.


Casa Doña Susana is one of the few intimate boutique style adults-only hotel in Puerto Vallarta. Where exclusivity is felt right down to the smallest details. However you spend your time, a vacation at this hotel is sure to be wonderful relaxing experience.
This cheerful and charming 19th century styled hotel is perfectly situated in the Beautiful Zona Romantica where you will find many tourist attactions such as the neighborhood restaurants, colorful shops and exciting nightlife. It is also a short walking distance from the heart of downtown Vallarta.
"Stay at one, Play at two" Guests may enjoy the Restaurant, Bar, Spa and Beach Club at our sister Hotel Playa Los Arcos, located just half a block away.
Casa Doña Susana Boutique Hotel (formerly Los Arcos Vallarta Hotel) is perfectly located in a romantic section of Vallarta with lush tropical vegetation on the mountains. This Mexican colonial styled hotel, with a touch of Spanish architecture, offers 40 newly remodeled rooms including color TV, Cable, A/C, small refrigerator and some with panoramic view of the city. As a sister property of the Beachfront Playa Los Arcos Hotel, guests are invited to enjoy the facilities of that hotel, located just a half block away.
At Casa Doña Susana, Find the escape from the ordinary, this is a place where service and style come together just for Adults.You'll enjoy friendly personal service and authentic Mexican hospitality.
Nestled between the majestic Sierra Madre Mountains and the beautiful Bahia de Banderas bay, Puerto Vallarta boasts a picturesque setting that has long attracted visitors from around the world. It's friendly and hospitable people help create the warm ambience that makes this lively vacation destination one of the most inviting there is. Enjoy its golden-sand beaches or take advantage of the many shops, restaurants and bars along the famous "Malecon" Boardwalk by the sea.
Our boutique style hotel is strategically located in Vallarta`s south downtown hotel zone in an area known as "Zona Romantica" where you can find all types of residences, the best restaurants, cafes, art galleries, boutiques, discos, night clubs, and recently renovated pedestrian passage lined with restaurants and shops. Only 25 minutes from the International Airport and we have challenging golf courses nearby. Zona Romantica is very safe and friendly, visitors can enjoy everything the area has to offer. The Malecon and Downtown are located a few blocks away.
Each one of our rooms and suites are beautifully appointed with hand carved wood furnishings and traditional Mexican art. Each room was personally decorated and offers a different touch and feelof the colorful Mexican folk art placed in every room, among other amenities to make your stay as comfortable as possible.


Growing, having and nourishing a beard is a feeling in itself and it is absolutely great. For beard men, who have a long-lasting love with his beard, cannot afford to disregard his beard any more than he can disregard his career. If you have had a beard for a long time, you probably know those windy months can be an absolute struggle for beards. Things start to get even worse if you live in cold temperate regions. Due to the low humidity and freezing conditions, the health of your beard can be adversely affected.
It is probably that time of the year when winter hits and coincidentally you have decided to grow facial hair to sport a bearded look. December is the time when winter hits most regions of the world. Of course, there are countries which remain windy and freezing throughout the year. And with movements like No Shave November and Movember, it is really tempting for a newbie to grow a beard. And with each colder morning, you are certainly not in the mood to get up for shaving. All you want to do is snuck under your comforter and sleep.
For newbies, who have just started to grow a beard in winter, you must know that beard can be a great companion in cold season. Beard protects your skin from drying out and wind burns. Albeit, if the beard does not have good care during winter, the temperate conditions can be harsh on your facial hair and can dry out your beard.
Thus for people who already have awesome looking beards and for newbies who are looking forward to having a great beard, following are the few tips which can help you nurture and nourish your beard in times of winter. A little extra effort of care for beard and skin can definitely help to combat the drying effects of winter.
Using too much shampoo and harsh soaps during winter can strip your beard of the natural contents and oil in the beard. Shampoo and soap aren't bad for the beard, but its overuse can and will definitely harm your beard by stripping the oil and turning it dry rather sooner than later. Avoid washing your beard daily with soap and shampoo. Though you can still do it at least 2 – 3 times a week. However to keep it clean and tidy, rinse your face and beard daily.
You can also replace your shampoo session by a good quality conditioner. Conditioner also gives you a soft and clean feeling. It is packed with natural contents and doesn't strip off the oil that prevents beard from drying up. In other words, it doesn't affect the health of your beard as much as a shampoo would do.
Beard oil and beard balm help to keep the beard moisturized. Due to this, the beard does not dry up and the skin underneath beard is protected. Flaky skin, beard dandruff, and hair loss are amongst the most common problems faced by bearded men. All these issues can be dealt with a great quality beard oil and balm.
Its property to hydrate the beard avoids your skin drying up, which ultimately results in beard dandruff and hair loss.
Thus, regular use of beard oil and balm must be maintained to avoid such issues all-round the year, but especially in winter. If you think that the beard oil you have is too greasy, you can apply it during the night. Or you can simply look for alternatives that aren't too greasy. There are plenty of products available on the market. Depending on the dryness of your beard, you can apply beard oil daily in the morning and once more during the night, if it is too dry and clumsy.
Beard balm is yet another cure that can avoid your beard from getting damaged during winter. You can use beard oil and beard balm on top of each other. Beard balm is a great product that helps the beard to maintain shape and style. It avoids the beard from getting messed up and tangled.
Yes, a shower in hot water is a great way to fight cold and winter. But too much of cleaning and beard exposure to hot water is not good for your beard health. Hot water deprives the skin underneath your beard with natural oils. Due to this, the beard will turn brittle, and the skin beneath will become flaky and dry.
For people who are wondering why they have beard dandruff, it is probably because you have exposed it to a lot of hot water. Also, the water that we use to have a shower contains hard minerals, which is not beneficial for the health of your beard. Do not let the water to sit on your beard after you take a shower. Make sure you dry it out completely.
If you let the water dry out itself, it will affect the moisturized contents of your beard and will lower your beard hydration level. Cleaning your beard with cold water can be a good way to prevent all of this, but fighting the cold with cold isn't a good way, I suppose. Thus, the time when you are taking a shower, avoid hot water getting in touch with your beard. Yes, you can do clean it once or twice in a week with hot water, but do not do it regularly.
Trimming a beard regularly is a must for bearded men. If you want your beard to look good, classy and awesome, trimming it, is one of the important things that you must know and learn. I say learn because visiting your barber each week won't be cost-effective and will certainly dig a hole in your pocket.
It is important to run the blades in one direction rather than going back and forth. Running the blades in one direction will prevent skin irritation and ingrown hairs. A well-trimmed beard will certainly have more attention, than the one where hairs are grown all over the place and doesn't have proper shape and style.
Brushing and combing your beard has a galore of benefits. For one, it helps to keep your beard dirt free, tidy and in good shape. Also, brushing the facial hair after you apply beard oil is a good way to spread out the oil evenly on the beard. This will ensure hydration of beard throughout the region and no part of the beard will turn brittle and flaky.
You can brush and comb the facial hair anytime you want as much time you want. Though ensure that you use high-quality products, otherwise cheap and plastic quality combs and brushes will rip off a lot of facial hair.
For people who live in snowy regions of the world, and someone who loves to hang out in the snow, it is better if you expose less of your beard to snow. Yes, the snow on your beard might be the right picture for your Instagram handle and will also get you a lot of appreciation, but it is definitely not good for the beard you worked so hard to attain. It can do serious damage to the condition and health of your beard. Your beard will turn brittle in no time and will be more prone to damage in the days to come by.
If your beard gets wet by rain and snow, try to wipe off the wetness as soon as possible. Otherwise, the beard will dry out and disturb the health of your facial hair. So if you are someone who likes to go out during snow, covering it with a scarf will be in the best of interest for your beards health and state.
There is no better disgrace than to let your beard fall victim to the cruel winter. After all, you have worked so hard to achieve the beard of yours and to let it get damaged by winter, is absolutely not acceptable. And in order for you to win the battle against the monstrous cold and windy climate, you must definitely follow all of the beard winter care tips mentioned above. And in no time, you will be able to achieve a lovely and well-moisturized skin underneath your beard. So fight your beard battle against the winter and keep your beard nourished and burgeoning.


This very important judgement was sent to you on May 19, 2016. A copy of the opinion is enclosed hereto for ease of reference and the short introductory note is also reproduced hereunder.
Once the ADR proceedings were finished, the Arbitral Tribunal resumed the arbitration and issued two procedural orders. An appeal was then made to the Federal Tribunal against the procedural orders, again on jurisdictional grounds.
The appeal was filed on September 14, and on September 20 – a full six days later – the Federal Tribunal took the rather unusual step of rejecting the appeal summarily as Swiss law allows. The opinion interestingly refers briefly to the traditional distinction between awards (final or partial), interlocutory awards, and mere procedural orders.
1.1. An international arbitration proceeding is pending in a three-member Arbitral Tribunal seated in Geneva, constituted in accordance with the Arbitration Rules of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) between A.________ Ltd (hereafter: A.________ or the Defendant), a company registered in the British Virgin Islands, active in exploring for and producing hydrocarbons in Algeria on the one hand, and B.________ S.p.A. (hereafter: B.________ or the Claimant), an Algerian law company active in exploration, production, pipeline transport, processing, and marketing of hydrocarbons and their derivatives on the other. The ad hoc request was submitted by B.________ on January 16, 2015, after the aforesaid company took the view that the request for preliminary conciliation it filed with the competent body of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), on September 8, 2014, did not enable the parties to settle their dispute amicably with the help of a conciliator.
Denying that the conciliation proceedings could be completed, the Defendant raised a jurisdictional defense.
In a jurisdictional award of October 13, 2015, the Arbitral Tribunal found that it had jurisdiction over the dispute between the parties. It rejected the jurisdictional defense raised by A.________ and held B.________'s claim admissible.
On November 16, 2015, A.________ filed a civil law appeal to the Federal Tribunal with a request for a stay of enforcement, with a view to obtaining the annulment of the aforesaid award and a finding that the Arbitral Tribunal had no jurisdiction ratione temporis in this matter. At its request, a stay of enforcement was granted ex parte by decision of the presiding judge of November 24, 2015.
In a judgment of March 16, 2016, which was published in part at ATF 142 III 296,2 the First Civil Law Court accepted the appeal, annulled the award under appeal and stayed the arbitration until the end of the conciliation proceedings according to the ICC ADR rules.
1.2. On March 31, 2016, the Arbitral Tribunal issued Procedural Order No. 5, by which, with reference to the aforesaid federal judgment, it ordered a stay of the arbitration proceedings and invited the parties to resume the conciliation proceedings.
It is established that, on May 31, 2016, the attempt at conciliation ended without the parties reaching an amicable settlement.
3.7. The solution upheld by the Federal Tribunal demonstrates unequivocal will to preserve the autonomy of the Arbitral Tribunal and above all to ensure the continuity of the proceedings which, whilst they were stayed, will nonetheless resume where they had stopped. For its part, the Arbitral Tribunal was deprived neither of its jurisdictional mission nor of its powers to organize the proceedings and neither of the power to organize the conditions of a stay procedurally. The annulment of the award, therefore, did not call into question the procedural decisions taken by the Arbitral Tribunal.
3.8 the scope of the sanction is thus limited. Indeed, it allows for a procedural parenthesis during which the case is stayed without calling into question the previous decisions of the Arbitral Tribunal and without depriving the Arbitral Tribunal of its jurisdictional mission.
In Procedural Order No. 7, dated August 11, 2016, and notified to the parties on the same day, the Arbitral Tribunal – to which the Defendant sent a legal opinion of Professor X.________ on July 28, 2016, concerning the impact of the aforesaid federal judgment – rejected the Defendant's request asking for reconsideration and amendment of Procedural Order No. 6 in the light of this legal opinion. Confirming its decision – notified to the parties by email on July 28, 2016 – to not hold a hearing and to decide as to the request for termination of the contracts on the basis of the briefs filed by the parties and the exhibits related thereto, including a witness statement by Mr. Z.________, it closed the proceedings in this phase.
1.3. On September 14, 2016, A.________ (hereafter: the Appellant) filed a civil law appeal, at the outset of which it asked the Federal Tribunal to annul Procedural Orders Nos. 6 and 7 and then to hold that the Arbitral Tribunal had no jurisdiction ratione temporis between May 22, 2015, and June 1, 2016. Moreover, the Appellant seeks an ex parte stay of enforcement, to be confirmed after hearing the other party, and seeks an order, whether ex parte or not, staying the arbitration proceedings until a judgment is issued in the appeal.
B.________ and the Arbitral Tribunal were not asked to file an answer.
2.1. The civil law appeal pursuant to Art. 77(1)(a) LTF3 in connection with Art. 190 to 192 PILA4 is admissible only against an award. The act capable of appeal may be a final award, which puts an end to the arbitral proceedings on the merits or on procedural grounds, a partial award dealing with a limited part of the quantum of a claim in dispute or with one of the claims at hand, or putting an end to the proceedings as to some of the co-defendants (ATF 116 II 80 at 2b, p. 83), or an interlocutory award disposing of one or several issues as to the merits or procedurally (as to these concepts see ATF 130 III 755 at 1.2.1, p. 757). However, a mere procedural order which can be modified or withdrawn during the proceedings is not capable of appeal (judgment 4A_600/20085 of February 20, 2009, at 2.3). The same applies to a decision on provisional measures pursuant to Art. 183 PILA (ATF 136 III 2006 at 2.3 and references).
The procedural decisions of the arbitral tribunal, such as an order to stay the proceedings temporarily, are procedural orders not capable of appeal; they may nonetheless be referred to the Federal Tribunal when the arbitral tribunal, by issuing them, implicitly ruled on its own jurisdiction (ATF 136 III 5977 at 4.2). In other words, when by doing so it issued an interlocutory decision as to its jurisdiction (or as to the regularity of its composition if it was challenged) within the meaning of Art. 190(3) PILA (4A_222/20158 of January 28, 2016, at 3.1.1).
Moreover, what is decisive to determine if the matter is capable of appeal is not the designation of the decision challenged but its content (last case quoted, ibid.).
2.2. In the case at hand and no matter what the Appellant says, the excerpt of the reasons of Procedural Order No. 6 reproduced above corresponds exactly to the scope the Federal Tribunal intended to give to its judgment of March 16, 2016, in the same case. As to Procedural Order No. 7, it is not different from the previous one. This obviously shows that one is not faced here with interlocutory decisions as to jurisdiction but to mere procedural directives which, as such, are not capable of appeal to the Federal Tribunal. Moreover, it must be pointed out that even according to Professor X.________, the steps and the decisions taken between May 22, 2015, until June 1, 2016, "are not voidable as such because only the award is capable of appeal in an arbitration but they may, if they remained, impact the future award because the award would be based on acts and decisions issued without jurisdiction" (legal opinion n. 85).
This is sufficient to establish that the matter is not capable of appeal. Indeed, the Appellant seems to have disregarded that while procedural orders may indeed contain some implicit decisions of the Arbitral Tribunal as to its jurisdiction, this does not mean that all procedural orders contain such decisions.
3.1. According to Art. 76(1)(b) LTF, the Appellant must have an interest worthy of protection to the annulment of the decision under appeal. The interest worthy of protection consists in the practical use that upholding the appeal would have for the Appellant by preventing economic, ideal, material, or other damage which the decision under appeal may cause (ATF 137 II 40 at 2.3, p. 43). The interest must be present, namely it must exist not only at the time the appeal is filed but also when the judgment is issued (ATF 137 I 296 at 4.2, p. 299; 137 II 40 at 2.1, p. 41). The Federal Tribunal holds the matter incapable of appeal when the interest worthy of protection fails at the time the appeal is filed. However, if the interest disappears during the proceedings, the appeal becomes moot (ATF 137 I 23 at 1.3.1, p. 24 f. and the cases quoted).
3.2. In the case at hand, the Appellant argues that by ratifying Procedural Orders No. 1 to 5 in Procedural Order No. 6, presently under appeal, the Arbitral Tribunal issued decisions directly impacting the Appellant's legally protected interests, despite the fact that in its view, it had no jurisdiction to do so.
One searches in vain for what interests may be involved in casu for lack of any demonstration by the Appellant other than the intent to postpone the resolution of the arbitral process even longer, as could be inferred from the fact that the Appellant waited until the last day of the time limit to appeal (considering the summer recess (Art. 46(1)(b) LTF)) to file its brief. It is obvious that such a will, if it corresponds to reality, would not be worthy of protection.
The absence of any demonstration of an interest worthy of protection to obtain the annulment of the two decisions under appeal is an additional reason for the matter not to be capable of appeal and sufficient per se. This being so, the obvious inadmissibility of the appeal requires the use of the simplified proceedings pursuant to Art. 108(1) LTF.
The Appellant fails in its appeal and shall pay the judicial costs of the federal proceedings. The Respondent is not entitled to costs as it was not invited to file an answer.
Holds that the matter is not capable of appeal.
Orders the Appellant to pay the judicial costs set at CHF 2'000.
Notifies this judgment to the representatives of the parties and to the Chairman of the Arbitral Tribunal.
1. Translator's Note: Quote as A.________ Ltd v. B.________ S.p.A., 4A_524/2016. The decision was issued in French. The original text is available on the website of the Federal Tribunal, www.bger.ch.
3. Translator's Note: LTF is the French abbreviation of the Federal Statute of June 17, 2005, organizing the Federal Tribunal, RS 173. 110.


Mademoiselle is a chair designed by Philippe Starck for Kartell. An innovative conception for an intelligent armchair and absolutely new by the associaton of two plastic matters: polyéruthane and polycarbonate. The marriage of the transparent and softness, aesthetic and color.
Mademoiselle is a chair designed by Philippe Starck for Kartell. An innovative conception for an intelligent armchair and absolutely new by the associaton of two plastic matters: polyéruthane and polycarbonate. The marriage of the transparent and softness, aesthetic and color. Proposed in different finishings, Mademoiselle is dressed of a seated one some foams covered with a united colored fabric effect checkmate or decorated in a trains restoration of the half of the XIX ième century. An elegant suggestion to decorate the whole house (room or linving-room). Mademoiselle finds equally his place in an office, a lecture lobby, a bar or a restaurant.


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What's That Food? This month's WTF is pitahaya. Botanically known as Selenicereus megalanthus, the fruits are also known as yellow dragon fruit, yellow pitahaya (sometimes spelled pitaya) or Pitaya Amarillo. A part of the cactus family, the fruit grows on stems that can grow to 20 feet long. It is native to Central and South America but is now also…
What's that food? This month's WTF is a familiar fruit in Indian cuisine. With its smooth green skin and elongated shape, tindora bears a resemblance to cucumbers, albeit a tiny cucumber. Like cucumber, tindora (Coccinia grandis) belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family and the fruit grow on vigorous climbing vines, native to tropical climes. The plant is commonly found in the…
What's that food? If you take an average size grapefruit and imagine it's been quadrupled, you will get an idea of this month's WTF. Pomelo (or pummelo, pomello, pumelo—each spelling is correct) is a type of citrus fruit native to south and southeast Asia. It's the biggest of all citrus fruit, can weigh between one and two kilograms, and grow…
What's that food? This month's WTF is an essential ingredient in both Worcestershire sauce and HP sauce—condiments that find places of honour on many chefs' and home cooks' shelves. Tamarind is a fruit that offers a sour yet sweetly acidic flavour, hence its use in these sauces. Tamarind is an evergreen tree native to tropical Africa but is widely cultivated…
What the food? This month's What's That Food is the appropriately-named star apple. A round fruit about the size of a large apple, when ripe it is usually purple-skinned with a faint green tinge on the outside. Cut it in half and a deep, rich purple-and-white coloured pulp with a radiating star pattern is visible—voila, there's your name! There are…
What's that food? Looking like a spiky avocado, the soursop fruit is native to the tropical regions of the Americas and the Caribbean, and it can be eaten in much the same way as an avocado. Its scientific name is Annona muricata, and is considered one of the 'custard apple' fruits. It develops on evergreen trees and can grow to…
What's that food? Look around the root vegetable section of your grocery store and you may come across this versatile vegetable. Jicama is also known as Mexican turnip, sweet turnip, Mexican potato, or Mexican yam bean and is, quite obviously from those names, native to Mexico. The 'Pachyrhizus erosus' is from the bean family and the vine grows best in…
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(What's that Food?) You will more than likely smell this large, tropical fruit before you see it, and chances are you will think you are smelling something other than what you are. Durian: some love it, and some love to hate it. It can be eaten raw when it is ripe or can be cooked. Enthusiasts and those familiar with…
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RECAP of LISTOWEL WRITERS WEEK 2008
June 06, 2010 By: Laura Category: 2008, creative writing, events, historical, journalism, memoir, novels, organisers, painters & paintings, participants, photographs, poet, poetry, poets, Reflections, short story, Speaker, theatrical plays
Listowel Writers' Week 2008 "Writing by Feale" Photos and Text by Laura Jean Zito laurajeanzito@gmail.com
Seamus Heaney opened the festivities of the Listowel Writers' Week 2008. And what a draw he is! Of course, the house was packed to the rafters and out onto the streets as he read from his latest volume, "District and Circle." He presided over the awards, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award going to Anne Enright for "The Gathering," her novel about a dysfunctional family that also won the Man Booker Prize in 07. The author, TV director and producer and mother from Wicklow County took the distinction over Joseph O'Connor's "Redemption Falls," James Ryan's "South of the Border," David Park's "The Truth Commissioner," and Julia Kelly's "With My Lazy Eye."
Nuala O Faolain, who died a few weeks before on May 9,was given a wonderful tribute by her many friends in attendance. Just last year I took this pic of her here in Listowel, where she was teaching a workshop, and was judge for the MemoirPrize, set up in her honor. She awarded it to Jennifer Farrell as the inaugural recipient. I remember when we met at Barnes & Noble in Bryn Mawr a few years back now as she was signing "Are you Somebody?" She was the somebody who validated so many people's personal experiences with her example, including my own.
The doting audience got the real prizes, the living presence of these important authors among them, just milling about the Listowel Arms, always the setting for the hub of Writers' Week, having conversations left and right as the evening wore on. I remember the first time I came here, and Bryan McMahon stopped me in the street and said, "Never feel shy!"I promised I wouldn't and then he hired me to fill in for a lecturer that had failed to show up!
Cliodhna Ni Anluain topped off the morning with the annual Sunday Miscellany event for which she is famous as the RTE Radio program's producer, and editor of several of its anthologies in book form. Another one is due out in October featuring 2006-20008 excerpts from Seamus Heaney, Anne Enright, Colm Toibin, and Joseph O'Connor, mixing anecdotal tales and topical treatises with their compatriots in a potpourri of texts for readers to savour.
Readers got readings galore as the day progressed. I entered the hushed ballroom of the Arms, and was drawn to sit by an artist, sketching John Banville as he spoke about identities in a new global and technological synthesis of culture that we are all subject to of late.
I found his simple old-fashioned method of depiction refreshing. So few people draw or paint from life anymore. As a photographer I find it much more interesting than sketching from photos, where one's viewpoint is already formed. So often I am disappointed at art galleries lately where artists just seem to be copying information from photographs rather than creating something completely different. Seems techno tools cause laziness!
Gemma Billington's expansive Kerry landscapes display none of those downfalls. On exhibition at the St. John's Theatre I enjoyed them with a glass of wine, and that was something I could identify with. They were amorphous, undetailed, foggy, vibrant in color, suggestions of fences and rooftops scratched into the fields of hue. Her favorite was "Through the Gap," she said about the gap between South and North Kerry, or the gap between one level of consciousness and a higher one. Or was that a stroke to the festival organizers and attendees? After her vernissage, Joe Murphy made the customary announcements in customary good humor, and then introduced Martin Lynch, who put on a one-man
show, "The Humours of the Troubles," about the North, of course.
Julien Gough read next, writing from two points of view, in "The Orphan and the Mob," a prologue to his novel "Jude: Level One." He won the BBC Short Story Competition with this first person and third person perspective, about a guy who had two penises apparently. Having it both ways? Losing identity? Deliberately? Seems to be the theme this year. Defining identity and its importance in the larger scheme of things.
In the audience I met my flat –mate, an English teacher from Sydney, who invited me for an apple tart and a glass of Merlot at the Arms. She speaks fluent French and Italian, is 67 and has the body of a teenager, running a mile every morning. She told me she'd whispered in Julian Gough's ear he had to take responsibility for his characters. He didn't like that and immediately got up from the signing table, flicking the ankle length thin silver scarf over his shoulder as he departed.
Later outside, I asked for his autograph I had missed, and he signed with tongue in cheek the polaroid his father had given me as we chatted there, that he took of an orange sunset, "To Laura Jean Zito, We will always have our memories of those sweet Morocco nights…..Love, Julian" Maybe the teacher was right, but the organizers were giving out about her remarks to him. All stroking, no poking for them, I guess. The American hostess, our mutual landlady, had already gotten wind of it through her grapevine by the time I got home after midnight. The Australian said through the wine, "When going to the opera, expect the Italians to have the best parts." She doesn't understand why everyone wants so badly to homogenize. Why they are building a highway through the hill of Tara? Why Julien is pissing on the past, writing about orphans without identities pissing on monuments of historical figures from generations back as they make their way to traditional celebrations? It annoyed her that the young Irish girls in the audience were laughing along with him, and that she felt they didn't know what they were laughing at.
Our landlady, on the other hand, doesn't go to the literary events, calling them incestuous. She seems lonely and needs attention as I type. I was writing to my sweetie about everything that was going on, my only chance being after midnight since every day at Listowel is so jam-packed with events. I was trying to find another love poem to send him.
After that glass of wine earlier with the teacher from Sydney I had met Galway poetess Caroline Lynch at the Arms. Turned out she knew Elizabeth Spires,
had been her protégé of sorts, as we discovered when I sought her advice about which poem I should send my new amour for flirts. She recognized the lines of the one he sent me as Elizabeth's "In Heaven It Is Always Autumn" in seconds, and then I revealed that my heartthrob had studied under her at Vassar. She didn't have any love poems of her own in her repertoire that I could send off though…not yet, anyway…Off we went to her launch at the Plaza for her new book "Lost in the GaelTeacht."
Later that evening, at St. John's Theatre, I saw "The Faith Healer," by Brian Friel, performed by members of AC Productions, also about point of view. Friel's intriguing play, some say his most transcendant, is built on four monologues by three characters, the husband, Frank Hardy, his wife, Grace Hardy, and his agent, Teddy. Each monologue is a different view of the same life path. By not meeting up on stage, the characters reinforce the isolation that each human's mental and emotional life must by definition abide, despite all effort to be connected to each other. I got curious and discovered that Ralph Fiennes had made this part his own and was said to be remarkable in it.
Here is a still from another drama I saw during the lunchtime theatre agenda at
St. John's. Can anyone tell me which one it is? O.K. Admittedly, Listowel Writers Week is known for its late nights, where people might stay up in the lobby of the Arms till five in the morning, singing and reading aloud and playing the piano and all sorts of special performances taking place…all with great quantities of alcohol imbibed by almost all…
Points of view abounded in the Film Club's offering of Todd Haynes' "I'm Not There," in which Bob Dylan tells his life story through the renderings of a variety of characters, most touchingly Cate Blanchett.
Saturday David McWilliams spoke about an altogether different point of view, how important it is for Ireland to wake up and sniff out its own genetic progeny in whatever country they emigrated to and grant them Irish passports, before the offspring of Chinese immigrants get granted more rights in Ireland than someone who is actually Irish by blood. He has many important economic points to make and I will have a look at his books, "The Pope's Children," "Follow the Money," and "The Generation Game," which he obligingly signed for all those interested.
Paddy Bushe, living locally in Kerry after years in Australia, read from his recently published, "To Ring In Silence: New and Selected Poems" in which he had translated his own poems from his previous collections as well as classic Irish poems.
poems. He has won the Listowel Writers Week Poetry Prize, the Strokestown Poetry Prize and the Michael Hartnett Award, among others. He's known for setting up poetry workshops in foreign locales for all those interested in combining their writing desires with gadding about the planet.
Weeshie Fogarty launched "The Essential Gabriel Fitzmaurice" at the Plaza.
Gabriel is known for leading historical tours about the local area. Until I have time to develop the actual film I shot of Seamus Heaney strolling about the Square with Gabriel, a Listowel native, here is the only pic I have digitally from the Healing Party at John B's in 2007. There's that technology, taking over again, just like John Banville said!O.K. It was after another very late night! That's why it's called a healing party after all! There is a lot more to expound about Writers' Week 2008 but I will beg off until I have developed all the film. Please return again here and I will update this article with more pics and text! For more about Listowel Writers' Week in general, please read my recap of Listowel Writers' Week 2007 and 2009 on this blogsite, listowelwritersweekfringe.com
"Writing By Feale" Copyright 2008 Laura Jean Zito All Rights Reserved For use of any photos and/or text contact laurajeanzito@gmail.com
Tags: Anne Enright, Brian Friel, Caroline Lynch, Cliodhna Ni Anluain, David McWilliams, Gabriel FitzMaurice, Gemma Billington, Joe Murphy, John Banville, Julien Gough, Listowel Writers Week 2008, Martin Lynch, Nuala OFalain, Paddy Bushe, Seamus Heaney
June 03, 2010 By: Laura Category: 2009, creative writing, events, historical, journalism, memoir, novels, painters & paintings, participants, photographs, poem, poems, poet, poetry, poets, Reflections, short story, songwriting, Speaker, storytelling, theatrical plays
"Poet's Life" by Laura Jean Zito (Photos and text) laurajeanzito@gmail.com
"Where's your husband?" yelled the man exiting the theatre, St. John's Church, in the main square in Listowel, Ireland.
"Do I care, if Gabriel Byrne's about?" retorted a woman as I passed her.
Gabriel Byrne himself had expressed surprise as to just what an object of female adoration he was regarded here in Listowel, where he opened the 39th Annual Writers Week Wednesday, May 27th, 2009. Inside the theatre he had been reciting a poem he penned for the "Sunday Miscellany" program that is aired on RTE radio every Sunday morning. His oratory the night before for the opening night ceremonies made less reference to writing and more to film, as he recounted an amusing anecdote about a cab driver in Dublin who, upon recognizing him, pitched his own script about a cocaine dealer that he insisted Gabriel would be perfect for, along with fellow "gang" members Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell. "And what about Stephen Rea?" he asked. You can see this speech on You Tube.
Gabriel talked about how the only reference to 39 that came to mind was the film and recent play from John Buchan's novel, "The 39 Steps," about the archetypal "man who knew too much" that had launched Hitchcock's career in 1935 and spawned several remakes, including a 2008 BBC television production.
Gabriel delighted the crowd by reminding them of the warm welcome he never forgot when he had first come to Listowel many years ago, cast as the lead in "Dev," by GP Gallivan and directed by Peter Sheridan of the Projects Theatre in Dublin. Later I heard Gabriel elaborate on an RTE radio interview that his love affair with Listowel was deepened by an actual "romantic liaison," as he put it, set in the town here. He went on to say how honored he felt to be asked to return to open the world-renowned literary festival on this eve when the winners of so many important literary competitions would be announced.
In his Intro, Michael Lynch had already pointed out that 2009 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bryan MacMahon, Writers' Week founder, along with John B. Keane. John B's play
"Sive" was enjoying via the Listowel Players the 50th anniversary of its first staging in 1959, a year before it won the All Ireland finals. 2009 also marks the 30th anniversary of the last taping of an episode of the Reardons, in which Gabriel Byrne got his start as a sheep farmer before appearing on Bracken, and the morrow would bring with it the performance of "Sive" in St. John's Theatre on the seventh anniversary to the day of John B.'s death.
Another writer died this year, beloved by many, David Marcus, an Irish Jewish writer and editor of fiction and poetry who hailed from Cork. The ee cummings poem he loved the most that Niall MacMonagle read at his funeral, "what if a much of a which of a wind" was shared with the audience by Colm Toibin, President of the Festival.
The Euro 15,000.00 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award was taken by Joseph O'Neill for "Netherland," a book that Barak Obama himself was quoted in the NY Times to have said was, "wonderful," (without specifically pinpointing what appealed to him.) Seamus Heaney's wife even made a copy of "Netherland," her 09 anniversary gift to her husband, adding to its aura.
Thursday morning O'Neill read from his tome, followed by others.
David Park, although a Protestant from Belfast, by developing the Sinn Fein character in his novel, "The Truth Commissioner", noted that he developed sympathies he didn't know he had. To paraphrase, he said something like 'Truth is relative to whoever is considering it.' When you seek out truth some of it is probably going to be damaging to one's own political point of view. When his teenage daughter asked him "Are the troubles coming back in?" he said "No," as the groundswell against the atrocities had grown so big that it was hard to conceive such a notion. He failed to mention the most recent atrocities, those of the night previous, in which an innocent Catholic man was beaten to death by eight Protestants, who then targeted the dead man's son.
The themes of love and death seemed to carry all through the festival, right up to the reading of Colm Toibin from his recent novel, "Brooklyn." He drew inspiration for the novel's main character, a female emigrant to Brooklyn from Wexford in the fifties, from a woman who came to visit at his house after his father died when Colm was 12. She spoke about her one daughter who had also died, and another who had emigrated to Brooklyn, a word that then took on mythical proportion.
After was heard a witty interview by Billy Keane of George Kimball,
American sports writer for the Boston Herald, who now writes the "America At Large" column for the Irish Times. He read excerpts from his best-seller 2008 boxing classic, "Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran and the Last Great Era of Boxing."
Rebecca Miller, the daughter of playwright Arthur Miller and photographer Inge Morath, read from her first novel, "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee," published in 2008, currently being filmed. She won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance for a screenplay adaptation of her own short story collection "Personal Velocity." She also directed Daniel Day Lewis, her husband, in her film "The Ballad of Jack & Rose." The film is screened in the Festival's film club in its nightly screenings at the Classic Cinema.
"All About Eve" was performed by the Classic Revival Theatre from Dublin in a remake of Joseph L. Mankiewicz's classic directed by Pegeen Coleman.
After a spectacular recitation of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" by Conor Lovett of the Gare St. Lazare Players, I was filled with admiration for the actor's talent at interpreting the text as well as expressing it. This performance is not to be missed.
Other theatre pieces in the nightly lineup of plays included a treatise on incest that is bounding continents, "On Raftery's Hill" written by Marina Carr and performed by the Allen Little Theatre from County Kildare.
Also noteworthy, I found Ballinrobe's Benny McDonnell's
"Bondi Beach Boy Blue," about attaining goals in the sports world, and other worlds, as two hurling teens hurl themselves Australia to represent Kilkenny.
After a wonderful art exhibition opening reception at the St. John's Theatre of splendidly painted landscapes by ,
Joanna Keane O'Flynn, the daughter of Ireland's most celebrated playwright,
John B. Keane, introduced John Montague, who announced it was his birthday. The audience received the presents of many of his poems read aloud by himself, and then his books readily signed thereafter.
Dermot Bolger, famous for his plays, poetry volumes and nine novels, as well as his associations with Trinity College and the Abbey Theatre, rounded things out on Sunday, the final day of the Festival.
The last word was had by Carol Drinkwater, known as Helen Herriot in the BBC's "All Creatures Great and Small." She wrote a best-selling award-winning children's novel, "The Haunted School." She is filming a documentary series around the Mediterranean Basin with UNESCO about the history and culture of the Olive Tree, based on her series of memoirs.
Most everyone could be found after at the "Healing Party" in John B's Pub, an annual tradition to top off the oratory on the last day of Writers' Week. The last
night was filled till the wee hours with memorable melodies, several by James Sheehan of the Dubliners,
sung and strummed by the Listowel Arms Hotel stayers and savourers of every last crumb of culture of the 2009 festival.
Certainly this all bodes well for the life of the Listowel Writers' Week and for the celebrations of its 2010 40th Annual.
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Arriving in Listowel
June 03, 2010 By: Patrick Stack Category: 2010, Reflections
Arriving in Listowel this morning feels different to my other arrivals for previous Writers' Weeks, mainly, though not exclusively, due to my having company in the personages of poet and long-time friend John MacNamee and of my daughter Deirdre.
John is signed up for the Songwriting workshop with Mick Hanley. Deirdre has signed up to this year's expanded blogging team.
On our way in John remarked on the memorable walk to Duagh we shared in the early hours of a moon-flooded night a quarter of a century or so ago at another Listowel Writers' Week. The same thoughts were coursing through my mind.
Dropping John off at St Michael's College reminded me of the morning two years ago when I arrived for my first Novel Writing workshop with Carlo Gebler. On that occasion, I parked the car and walked into a building which didn't exist the last time I had been to St. Michael's College as a student in the mid-1970s. This morning we drove out again, parked the car behind the presbytery, and walked to the Listowel Arms Hotel where we are currently enjoying a pot of their excellent coffee and writing this.
I am reminded of new beginnings and that every morning in our seemingly interminable and eternal living affords us a precious opportunity for renewal.
LWW Takes a Great Leap Forward for 2010
January 20, 2010 By: Paul O'Mahony Category: 2010, blogs, connections, events, historical, organisers, preparations, Reflections, starting up
Today Listowel Writers' Week joined the new world. The Festival published its revamped website, which looks great.
But it had a good website last year.
The great leap forward is the simultaneous launch of its Facebook page and Twitter identity. This change is significant. It's just in time for the 40th anniversary of LWW Literary Festival. I've immediately sent a request to be admitted as a Facebook Friend.
In my opinion, it would have been better if the Festival set up its Facebook presence differently – made it possible to become a "Facebook Fan" of Writers' Week. But the big step it to get out where the public is.
The Festival is in Listowel for a few days every year, but there is a whole world of people who can't make it to Listowel. There are so many who would be interested to know what's going on. This Facebook presence give everyone a chance of linking up with the spirit of Listowel Writers' Week. John B Keane and Bryan McMahon would have approved. They always wanted the Festival to break the boundaries of the parochial.
The Twitter move is dramatic.
Once you go on Twitter, you have to engage. People follow you, and you can't afford to ignore them – it damages your reputation if you offer nothing to your followers. You have to tweet. People can see how serious you are about sharing, linking, engaging… Twitter is a medium which exposes a lot of your soul.
As soon as I got alerted to @writersweek on Twitter, I followed. I urge you all to do the same. Nothing will do more to raise the profile of LWW, all round the world, than a really good presence on Twitter.
It's still not clear to me what this blog's plan for LWW2010 is to be.
We are completely independent of the Festival Committee. We love the Festival. We'd love the Committee to love us, but we have no right to expect it. During 2009 Festival, the organising committee were civil to us. But if they liked anything we did, they didn't let us know.
I have huge emotional attachment to Listowel Writers' Week Festival.
It would be wonderful to continue to blog it again. I am completely convinced that all Festivals that are any good should be blogged. It's all about making the hard work of organising the Festival visible to the audience of the future. All valuable Festivals deserve to be out there, reaching round the globe.
We've heard a lot about the Irish Diaspora, what about the Listowel Writers' Week Diaspora?
This is surely a day for celebration. May the Fesitival of the Future be a credit to the joyful spirit of its founders…
Tags: "Bryan McMahon", "festival of the future", "Irish Diaspora", "Listowel Diaspora", facebook, fans, friends, John B. Keane, Listowel, lww09, LWW2010, tweet, twitter
A Rumour about
September 24, 2009 By: Paul O'Mahony Category: blogs, organisers, Reflections
I've heard a rumour that Writers' Week has appointed a person to produce an official blog of the 2010 Festival, the 40th one …
Anyone heard any more?
Since 2009 Writers' Week, we the bloggers have unfortunately had no contact with the Organising Committee of Writers' Week.
This has saddened me. But it may be the sort of world we live in, sometimes…
Tags: #lww10, blog, bloggers, lww09, Paul O'Mahony, rumour
This is the holiday season – so don't make rash decisions
July 24, 2009 By: Paul O'Mahony Category: connections, historical, Imagining, Reflections
Better give plenty of time to ensure everyone has a chance to have a say on the future of this blog…
Tags: future
The future of this blog
July 22, 2009 By: Paul O'Mahony Category: connections, Imagining, Reflections
Ever since the idea of developing a blog around and in honour of Listowel Writers' Week came to me, I've been thinking about the future of this blog.
Is it to live?
Is it to carry on after Writers' Week 2009?
Or is it to be given a decent wake, burial & obituary?
If it is to live, in what form?
If it is to carry on, what form should it take, and in whose hands?
If it is to be closed down, how best to do that, and when?
I would like to invite views…
I would like to give everyone who is interested a chance to have their say?
There may be other future-oriented questions: if members of the audience, the community, the 'tribe', would like to put fundamental questions on the table, please do.
There is only one now, and now is the time to have your say…
Tags: audience, community, future, lww09, thinking, tribe
The height of the Irish Summer?
June 20, 2009 By: Patrick Stack Category: localinfo, Reflections
This weekend sees the arrival of the Summer Solstice 2009 for the northern hemisphere, or the Winter Solstice if you happen to live south of the equator. As I write in my office in Kilmaley, Co. Clare I can see that it is quite windy outside and the sun is shining from a partially clouded sky. It doesn't feel at all like what I think the longest day of the year should feel like with the temperature around 15C. WolframAlpha tells me that the story is similar 40 miles south across the Shannon Estuary in Listowel – the temperature is 16C with a relative humidity of 72%, a wind of 8m/s under a cloudy sky. What became of the glorious summer days we experienced at this year's Writers' Week festival I wonder?
Like most Irish people, I'm eternally hopeful that one of these years we will get a proper summer – you know the kind I mean: long warm sunny days with little wind and blue skies, and the very odd light shower of rain to keep the plants from wilting altogether. The last one was in 1995, and the one before that 1984. Beyond that I can't tell, though I do remember some very wet summers in the 1970s when it was impossible to save the hay or draw out the turf from the bog. The worst summer on record was definitely last year's when we had rain day after day often puntuated by torrential downpours, rarely by extended sunny spells. I don't want to go through another "summer" like that one.
So on this Solstice weekend I pray the meteorological deities will look kindly upon us and grant us a proper summer in 2009.
Tags: summer, weather, Writers' Week
If I ever meet a spammer in person I'll …
June 18, 2009 By: Patrick Stack Category: blogs, poetry, Reflections
… kick their teeth in, and that is a promise. I don't mind the odd comment spam in Cryllic from some Russian with nothing better to do, but when we get flooded by rubbish from that bastion of rabid capitalism, the, in this case, not-so-good old U S of A, trying to sell everything from cheap insurance (automobile and home) to pharmaceuticals (a minority of which claim to increase the girth of one's manhood) to College degrees, my normal sanguinity in the face of computer problems goes to white hot, and I have this overweening urge to shove their spam up their virtual rear ends which of course I never get to do as they remain untraceable apart from an IP address.
Now I know, as ever blogger does, that one of the downsides of blogging is that it brings with it the unwanted attentions of the bottom-feeding spammer scum (those self-styled "bulk marketing consultants") which rarely amounts to no more than a passing, if daily, annoyance.
However, it does become a major problem when the number of spam posts dramatically increases making it nigh-on-impossible for the blog admin. (the person who oversees the proper running of the blog) to stem the tide of filth.
Some years back I suffered one such attack on my first blog and was forced to close the blog down while I searched for a solution. Not being sufficiently skilled at php coding at the time I could not implement any of the solutions I found on the web, nor could I afford to pay somebody else to do it for me. I kept a record of the IP addresses of the offending posts over a few days. The vast majority of the relevant IPs originated in China. So I banned entire ranges of IP addresses associated with China by adding them to a .htaccess file on the server. A bit extreme I know, but it worked!
Why am I telling you all of this? Firstly I'm writing it as an extension to Paul O'Mahony's contention, in his Literary Festival in Digital Age post, that we writers ignore the tools brought to us courtesy of the Web Revolution at our peril. Secondly, because I love Web technology every bit as much as I love writing. For me the two are inextricably intertwined. There is a web site devoted to poetry written in or using the Perl programming language – Perl Monks. There has even been a Perl Poetry Contest. According to its inventor, Larry Wall, Perl stands for either Practical Abstraction and Report Language or Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister depending on his mood at any particular time!
Any good programmer, mathematician, musician, or indeed scientist will be familiar with the idea that a solution, formula, function, theorem, piece or proof must have beauty if it is to be considered great. The concept of coding as poetry has always appealed to me, ever since I first came across it in Larry Wall's classic Learning Perl or it may have been Programming Perl. What matter which?
Tags: coding, Larry Wall, Patrick Stack, Paul O' Mahony, Perl poetry, poetry, programming, writing
Quantitative Comparison of Listowel Writers' Week & West Cork Literary Festival programmes
June 13, 2009 By: Paul O'Mahony Category: competition, connections, events, Reflections
After the flurry of challenging comments, comparing Listowel Writers' Week with West Cork Literary Festival (WCLF), isn't it time for some measuring?
I've gone through both programmes and offer this quantitive comparison – for what it's worth. I suspect it's meaning is extremely limited: I haven't yet found a way to measure atmosphere except by total immersion.
(Numbers in brackets relate to WCLF)
Length of Festival: 4 days & about 2 hours (6 days)
No. of readings: 20 (28)
Seminars/Talks: 0 (10)
Public interviews: 2 (4)
Number of Workshops: 15 (14 [3 for children])
Children's Programme of Events: 11 (6)
Open Mic poetry, music & song: 4 (5)
Open Mic song only : 1 (0)
Art Exhibitions: 7 (1)
Films: 5 (0)
Lunchtime theatre: 3 (o)
Evening theatre: 4 (0)
Book launches: 5 (1)
Writing Competitions: 11+ (3)
Storytelling competition: 1 (0)
Youth Poetry Slam: 1 (0)
Photographic exhibition: 1 (0)
Radio broadcasts: 1 (o)
Tours: 3 (2)
Prose: 60% (58%)
Poetry: 40% (42%)
Tags: listowel writers week, listww09, marketing, Paul O'Mahony, WCLF, West Cork Literary Festival