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Review: The audience dividing Scenes from an Execution
Fell a little bit in love with Fiona Shaw's character Galactia on Friday night. OK so she's sharp and honest to the point of tactlessness at times but I admired her intelligence, unwavering and brave (some might say foolish) determinism and her freedom of spirit and physical being.
She's not to everyone's taste and neither is the play - two friends left at the interval - but I was rather taken. Galactia is an artist in renaissance Venice commissioned by the Doge (Tim McInnerny) to paint a depiction of the Battle of Lepanto in which the Venetians were victorious against the Turks but at great cost to life on both sides.
What the Doge has in mind is something that shows the glory of victory but Galactia, in the course of researching the battle, wants to present it as it was: a carnage that turned the sea red with spilt blood and gore and left hideous wounds.
Her undeniable artistic talent versus her unconventional life - her lover, the needy Carpeta (Jamie Ballard) is a less talented artist, married and younger - causes a lot of angst for her benefactor. His position is political and backing the wrong art, so to speak, could be damaging for his career.
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Posted on 30/09/2012 at 09:09 PM in National Theatre | Permalink | Comments (0)
Review: A lot of Love but too much Information in Caryl Churchill's new play
Caryl Churchill's new play at the Royal Court, Love and Information, gets the accolade of being the first play to give me a headache. A combination of bright lights, bright white box 'set' and the pace of the 58 vignettes that make up the whole, I think.
There is lots that is not just amazing but astounding about this play. It is, after all, 58 mini plays in one, staged in the aforementioned white box with darkness and a dark screen - you can't see it but you can hear it - shielding the swift scene and actor changes between each.
Every character is different, some scenes have no props others full blown pieces of furniture. As the lights and 'invisible' shutter reveal each new vignette, for the briefest moment it is as if you've happened upon a tableau of ordinary people in an ordinary situation.
When you look at the playtext, which serves as the very good value programme, you get an idea of the task faced by director James Macdonald. Churchill has presented a blank canvas, it is all dialogue but no characters. How each scene is played and by whom - male, female, young, old, gay, straight etc - is all open to interpretation. Macdonald could be forgiven if he felt just a little bit daunted by the task and it's testament to his skill and judgement that there isn't a decision that doesn't feel right.
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Posted on 27/09/2012 at 08:33 PM in New plays, Royal Court | Permalink | Comments (0)
Review: Approval for A Chorus of Disapproval?
Have experienced Rob Brydon turning a dull corporate awards ceremony into something quite fun and jolly so he certainly has comedic talent. But how does he fare in his first outing on a West End stage?
He's playing amateur light opera society director Dafydd ap Llewellyn who is putting on a production of The Beggars Opera.
Similar to Michael Frayn's Noises Off - although this isn't as clever - Alan Ayckbourn's A Chorus of Disapproval is about the lives and loves of the am dram group and how it might jeopardise their production.
The play opens with the final song from The Beggars Opera and the curtain call. Nothing much is said but it is obvious that not all is amicable among the performers particularly towards the Opera's leading man Guy Jones (Nigel Harman). As the play winds back the clock we see Guy arriving to audition for a minor role all bumbling, shy, awkwardness and so the tale unfolds of Guy's inadvertent rise up through the society's ranks to leading man.
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Posted on 26/09/2012 at 09:15 PM in Comedy, RS/BW - 6DS, West End | Permalink | Comments (0)
Review: Roundabout new writing season at Shoreditch Town Hall
My first theatre-a-thon: three new plays in six hours with three friends to share it with - @polyg, @jongilmartin1 and M.
But before I dive into my mini reviews (they are short plays) a brief explanation of the Roundabout Season. It's a collaboration between Paines Plough, Sheffield Theatres and the National Theatre. The venue for the London leg is a temporary theatre in the round constructed in the grand Shoreditch Town Hall - the auditorium reminded me of when I saw Cock at the Royal Court Upstairs.
It's unallocated seating but you choose a coloured button (pictured right) before you go in and are directed to a portion of the auditorium that matches your colour. (Tip: Choose yellow if you want to be closest to the exit/loos). A nifty way of getting the audience to spread out but as no one was collecting buttons I'm wondering how long it will be before they run out.
#1 One Day When We Were Young by Nick Payne, directed by Clare Lizzimore
Story: It's 1942 and young couple Violet (Maia Alexander) and Leonard (Andrew Sheridan) decide to consummate their relationship before Leonard heads off to war. What happens that night shapes the rest of their lives but the consequences are only revealed as we revisit the couple at two later points in their lives.
Impression: It's a lovely idea and had some really nice moments in it. There was a wonderfully portrayed awkwardness to the couples first liaison but the plot seemed a little too mechanical and obvious. And there was a class gap between the lovers that is never explained and as I result I just wasn't convinced about their feelings for one another which is kind of important for what happens later on.
Wasn't my favourite: 3/5
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Posted on 23/09/2012 at 07:47 PM in Fringe/pub theatre, National Theatre, New plays | Permalink | Comments (0)
Review: Dramatic politics in This House, National Theatre
The National Theatre has had more than its fair share of drama this week and I'm not talking about the plays. On Wednesday Simon Russell Beale tripped and broke his finger during a performance of Timon of Athens with his understudy hastily called to fill in for the final scenes.
Then last night, at a preview performance of James Graham's new political drama This House, after being let into the theatre rather late we were informed that Phil Daniels who plays labour whip Bob Mellish was indisposed. The producers could have cancelled, it being a preview after all, but decided instead that the show must go on and an unrehearsed understudy stepped in, script in hand to take the role.
He did a sterling job and, in what was a nice touch, finished his last line throwing his script into a box of belongings his character was moving, as if it was part of the performance.
But what of the rest of the play? Well for someone who knows little about the inner workings of Parliament today let alone in the 1970s pre-television days when this was set, it was fascinating.
Graham has created a fictional story based loosely on some real accounts and anecdotes from those in Parliament at the time. Then, it was unique situation: a hung Parliament followed by a very slim Labour majority which left the latters power precarious at best.
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Posted on 22/09/2012 at 10:28 AM in National Theatre, New writing | Permalink | Comments (1)
Review: The Busybody and the but...
Bit of a tricky one this because there was much to enjoy about the revival of this early 18th century comedy by Susanna Centlivre.
Its plot is standard fare: young people being kept from their beaus and/or inheritances by their parents/guardians except to add to the comedy, as the name suggests Busybody has a busybody - Marplot - who is nosey, gets the wrong end of the stick and generally makes things worse by trying to help.
The acting is a little obvious at times from some of the less experienced cast members but there are some genuinely funny moments and it is simply and effectively staged with just a few pieces of stage furnishing being worked very well. And, it will shock those who know of my views of musicals, there are also some nice little musical interludes (I'm not adverse to the odd song in a play I just don't want a whole album's worth).
Jessica Swales, who adapted and directed, adds effective little modern flourishes such as the opening 'number' which is about asking the audience not to run away because the play is written by a woman and goes on to name check a whole gamut of talented women playwrights right up to Anya Reiss.
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Posted on 19/09/2012 at 09:00 PM in Comedy, Southwark Playhouse | Permalink | Comments (0)
List: You know you go to the theatre a lot when...
You are relieved to find out that the play is only 90 minutes long
You know which 'restricted view' seats are actually not very restricted
You know the quick route to the loos to beat the interval queue or in the case of the National, which loos to go to where there is never a queue
Some of the actors you get excited about seeing on stage your non-theatre friends have never heard of
You join discussions on Twitter about the various merits of the different theatres membership schemes.
You share membership schemes with theatre friends to save money.
Getting into town to sit on the cold step of a theatre for two hours or more to secure a day seat doesn't seem mad.
You'll jump on a train for two hours to attend a matinee outside London
You buy tickets for whole seasons in one go and get a little bit stressed
You discuss ticket buying trials and tribulations on Twitter.
Actor/director spotting in the audience becomes an almost regular occurrence and you have at least one story to tell about when you sat next to/behind/in front of someone famous
You recognise the theatre critics.
OK what have I missed, there must be loads more?
Posted on 17/09/2012 at 06:52 PM in Lists | Permalink | Comments (5)
Was there something in the water at the Dursley house: Another star turn by Harry Melling in I Am A Camera @swkplay
It is quickly becoming a joy to see Harry Melling on stage. Aside from Daniel Radcliffe he's probably made the most successful transition from a 'Harry Potter actor' to an accomplished actor in his own right.
I first saw him at the National Theatre in Mother Courage and All Her Children, ironically playing son to his Harry Potter screen mother Fiona Shaw and then he stole his scenes in Women Beware Women, also at the National.
Last year he got his first lead in the wonderful When Did You Last See My Mother at the Trafalgar Studios and I was hooked. So much so that I couldn't miss seeing him play Christopher Isherwood in I Am A Camera at the Southwark Playhouse.
And he didn't let me down. Once again he carries off a role with such confidence and skill it is easy to forget that he is only 23 - there must have been something in the water in the Dursley house.
Set against the back drop of the rise of the Nazi's in 1932, a young Isherwood is living in Berlin, barely earning his keep tutoring the daughter of a rich Jewish family. Forced to take a smaller room at his lodgings by his financial situation he quickly becomes friends with rebellious posh girl Sally Bowles (Rebecca Humphreys) who takes his old room and who survives earning money singing in clubs and eating out on rich men.
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Posted on 16/09/2012 at 11:26 AM in Southwark Playhouse | Permalink | Comments (0)
Critics review round up: Hedda Gabler, Judas Kiss, Three Sisters
September has kicked on in fine style with a mixture of traditional (Hedda) and modern (Three Sisters) takes on classics and wonderful Wilde (Judas). The press nights are now over so the critics review are in.
Always curious to see how their opinions compare so here's a round up:
Hedda Gabler, Old Vic
This was my first Hedda and a Brian Friel version of the play so I had nothing to compare it to. I loved it for the story and the complexity of the protagonist, the acting and the production but not all of the critics agreed and it seems that that Friel's tweaking of the text hasn't suited everyone's taste:
Paul Taylor, The Independent ***
"Sheridan Smith's high stake Hedda gamble hasn't paid off"
Charles Spencer, The Telegraph ****
"The productions real strength is the top flight cast led by Sheridan Smith in the title role"
Michael Billington, The Guardian ***
"That final moment, as well as Smith's accomplished performance, makes up for some of the production's textual infelicities."
Henry Hitchins, The Standard ****
"Mackmin's interpretation succeeds in feeling both Victorian and urgently modern. More than ever the play comes across as a study of a woman doomed to be a misfit. Smith's admirable performance is its beating heart."
The Standard also allows readers to rate plays and the audience rating is *****
Michael Coveney, What's on Stage ***
"There's a swing and facility to the script that might go better with the Irish inflections, but many of the great passages sound new-minted, and there's a glorious elaboration of Tesman's paean of praise to his own slippers that prefigures the burst of excitement with which he greets the discovery of the notes for Loevberg's lost masterpiece."
The What's on Stage audience rating is ****
Rev Stan's rating 4/5 (average with other audience ratings 4.6/5)
Average critics rating 3.4/5
So one for the audiences not the critics then.
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Posted on 14/09/2012 at 07:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Mud, Nirvana and swearing: Three Sisters, Young Vic style
It's Ibsen vs Chekhov south of the river in traditional vs modern productions. The Old Vic's version of Hedda Gabler is rooted in the plays origins while the Young Vic has taken one look at that and said 'nah' not this time.
For a start a thrust stage is made from square tables all painted grey which protrude from a mound of earth at the back of the stage. When we are introduced to the three sisters they are all dressed to reflect their personalities rather than the period.
Olga (Mariah Gale) is sat at one of the stage/tables marking school work, dressed conservatively 1940's style. Masha (Vanessa Kirby) is draped on a chair in an elegant, backless 1920's dress languorously smoking and not saying very much. And the youngest, Irina (Gala Gordon), is all excited energy in a frou-frou white dress. It's the day of her 18th birthday and her life is before her.
Their language has been modernised - the play doesn't shy from expletives - and as they talk the stage is continually active with preparation for a luncheon. Friends of the family pop by - Chetbutykin (Michael Feast) a doctor who can't remember anything he learnt at medical school, Baron Tuzenbach (Sam Troughton) who fancies Irina, Masha's husband Kulygin (Adrian Schiller) a dull and hardworking teacher together with various associates from the army encamped in the town all dressed in combat fatigue.
Some arrive walking over the mound of mud, others just climb up onto the stage having entered through the audience. There is little of the formality you'd expect of the period. This is a very much a relaxed affair with snatches of modern tunes including a cast singalong to Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit.
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Posted on 12/09/2012 at 09:13 PM in RS/BW - 6DS, Young Vic | Permalink | Comments (0)


This Bulletin details the findings of the first phase of a study into the way in which health boards carry out their role as commissioners of health services. The first phase of the study focuses on how contracting has worked in practice. All health boards and the majority of trusts in Scotland participated in the study which was carried out during 1996/97. Subsequent bulletins in this series will cover: good practice in contracting; the information needed to contract effectively and the changes which health boards are making in light of the Shields report, on their roles and responsibilities.


There's a new haircut on the block—and it turns out it's not new at all. While the classic bob and blunt lob have seen their fair share of the attention recently, it's the new shag that's taking over salons everywhere. Before you lose yourself flashing back to Stevie Nicks, Jane Fonda, David Cassidy, and Mick Jagger with their choppy shag cuts, we want you to instead envision a new, more flattering shag everyone is going to be rocking this fall. This modern nod to the shag cut that reigned supreme in the 1970s is just as mussed and layer-heavy, but a little softer in approach. And it's so flattering.
While getting a layer-packed cut like this can be intimidating once out from under the wings of a professional stylist, the new shag is approachable, softer, and not one-size-fits-all. An old-school shag cut hits traditionally between the collarbone and chest, but face shape and hair texture should dictate your most flattering length instead. The bangs are still eyebrow-grazing and longer on the sides, and oodles of layers give the midsection major volume and body (but ask for softer layers that aren't choppy!). The best way to get started styling this look is to use a great mousse while the hair is wet to encourage texture, but apply a smoothing oil or serum once almost dry for a slightly sleeker look. We're telling you—there are so many ways to style a modern shag that we know you'll be feeling adventurous on your next trip to the salon.
Give this new cut a try.
So, the new shag is all about using softer layers to create a less choppy, more feminine cut that still maintains the shape and feel of a classic shag with bangs, waves, and plenty of layers. You can vary the length to whatever you want, and this style is a great example.
This French-inspired bob is ultra short on the length and bangs, which gives it that choppier shag look. This style flatters oval faces better than round or heart.
We love this modern approach to the shag cut with less messiness and sleeker locks, while keeping the tousles and bangs. This is definitely wear a smoothing serum or oil comes in handy after the hair is dry.
We love this modern crop cut that gives the choppy layers and bangs of a shag cut, but in a slightly stacked, longer crop length. It's easy to style, but makes a statement.
This is the closest we think anyone should get to the retro shag, and it's a pretty good resemblance with the slightest modern edge (which we might just chock up to way better hair products!).
We're giving a nod to an original shag expert here, especially with this particular shag style that keeps the top half of layers very short to get that volume and shape (helmut-esque!). It still works!
This side-parted shaggy bob with thick bangs looks classy and chic and is perfect for those that don't want to dive into a center part. The length frames the face perfectly, and the short layers give major body.
If you want to give a quieter nod to this cool cut, then go for a subdued style that still emphasizes the characteristic center-part bangs and layers of the shag cut in a softer, sleeker way and with a longer length.
This is definitely a more modern cut that gets its characteristics from the shag cut, such as the bangs, wavy layers, and effortless look. The balayage highlights give so much movement and definition to this style and make it ultra-trendy and fresh!
We're loving this natural curly-hair approach to a shag cut. With the layers creating major volume at the midsections of the hair, it's giving the classic shape. Get some major curling mousse in this hair to enhance that curl!
We know the whole thing about a classic shag was its mountains of layers and choppy look, but we like the rebellious bluntness of this style that somehow still veers shag-like in shape and cut. Ask for blunt ends, rather than all the layers.
The shag is typically no longer than the just below the collarbones, but this style doesn't sacrifice length for the layer-packed, tousled shag look. The bangs sweep away from the face, and we love the subtle highlights that add definition.
If you're more into blunt bangs than center-parted bangs, then go for a full bang on a shag cut to make it look a little more classic and elegant. You still get the eyebrow-grazing length bangs, but just more!
This shag-esque take on the trendy lob-length cut makes for one stylish head of hair. There are plenty of layers and body, but the bangs are a little more subdued than a traditional shag.


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'We just keep checking off historical wins': Tuttle, tough defense lead Indiana to statement win on the road
Jack Ankony
MADISON, Wis. — Indiana and Wisconsin punted more times than they scored Saturday. But that doesn't matter to Tom Allen and the Hoosiers. Allen has preached a 1-0 mindset before each game this season, and that is all that mattered Saturday.
"Indiana is tough," Jack Tuttle said. "Plain in simple we're just tough...Every single guy on this team fights, and will never stop fighting. That's the message we sent today."
Saturday's 14-6 Indiana win was an old-fashioned, grind-it-out Big Ten football game. Through one quarter, both teams punted on each possession. And then, with 51 seconds left in the first quarter, Kane Wommack decided to dial up Tiawan Mullen's number.
We've seen Mullen succeed at the corner blitz other times this year, but this bone-rattling sack on Graham Mertz might have been his best one yet.
"It sounded like a gunshot on the field for sure," Micah McFadden said.
Stop us if you've heard it before: The @IndianaFootball D will turn you over.
Well, it just did it again. ? pic.twitter.com/Ole9wYlMtp
— Big Ten Network (@BigTenNetwork) December 5, 2020
It forced the football to pop out of Mertz's hands, and Indiana recovered it.
"I knew I was going to get one going into this game," Mullen said. "I knew he didn't see me, and I knew I had a clean shot. I wanted to get the ball out for the offense to go down and score."
It took nearly a minute for the officials to determine that Indiana had recovered the ball, as the ball could have switched hands multiple times with both teams fighting in the dog pile. But this play defined the kind of football game Indiana won Saturday. Tough, hard-nosed, and yes, as Allen says at nearly every press conference, gritty.
"A lot of times, to the fan that's not as exciting to watch," McFadden said. "As a defensive player that's real fun... It's man-on-man football, that's where we're at. We like that."
Following this turnover, Tuttle marched Indiana down the field on his best drive of his college career. Tuttle completed four of six pass attempts, and capped the drive off with a perfectly-placed ball to Hendershot for a touchdown to go up 7-0.
Without starting quarterback Michael Penix Jr., Indiana had to adjust the style of football it played, but really didn't skip a beat.
"Most people wrote us off because we lost Michael Penix, a tremendous player," Allen said. "We are a football team. That team showed up tonight."
With Tuttle under center, the Indiana offense wasn't quite as explosive as it has been with Penix, but it didn't need to be Saturday. Wisconsin actually outgained Indiana on offense 342 to 217.
Tuttle completed 13 of his 22 passes for 130 yards and two touchdowns. In his first collegiate start, Tuttle led Indiana into Camp Randall Stadium to claim a 14-6 victory. With this win, Indiana moves to 6-1 on the season and clinches a second place finish in the Big Ten East.
"We just keep checking off historical wins," Allen said. "This team just keeps fighting."
L.E.O.
Love Each Other is contagious with @IndianaFootball
This is exceptional ❤ pic.twitter.com/4RmWxHB1q9
— Holly Rowe (@sportsiren) December 6, 2020
The Hoosiers ran out of the tunnel with the same confidence and swagger they portrayed in big wins over Rutgers, Michigan State and Maryland. And if you didn't know that it was Tuttle's first start of the season, you surely wouldn't have been able to tell based on his composure and leadership qualities.
This belief, coupled with strong play from the run game and a stellar defensive performance, helped Indiana accomplish things that would have been unheard of against Wisconsin before the season.
Wisconsin was allowing roughly 30 yards fewer on the ground than any other Big Ten defense before this game, and Hoosiers eclipsed this average by 20 yards. Indiana's offensive line and run game have been the Hoosiers' biggest area of concern this year, which makes it even more impressive that they were able to succeed against the statistically-best run defense in the conference.
Over the past two weeks, Indiana has become more creative with the run game, which is a reason for its success. Indiana has shied away from straight runs up the middle with Stevie Scott, and has incorporated more outside runs, direct snaps and a variety of backs.
Indiana's 87 rushing yards don't jump off the page, but is impressive because of Indiana's past offensive line struggles and Wisconsin's shut-down run defense this season. It also allowed offensive coordinator Nick Sheridan to keep the Wisconsin defense guessing and not play one-dimensional football.
Scott rushed 18 times for 57 yards and David Ellis rushed five times for 22 yards. Going into this game, Tuttle wanted to keep his own running game a secret, but was productive Saturday rushing six times for 11 yards, including a crucial quarterback sneak on a key third down.
The Hoosiers also benefited from offensive tackle Caleb Jones returning to the lineup. Jones started at right tackle Saturday after playing left tackle every other game this season due to Tuttle being right-handed and Penix being left-handed.
Indiana's running game has really grown over the past two games, but one constant has remained all year long: the Indiana swarm defense, as defensive coordinator Kane Wommack calls it.
Micah McFadden during last year's Gator Bowl in Jacksonville. (Jared Rigdon/HN)
"All the credit to Kane and his staff," Allen said. "I don't tell him what to call during the game. I never liked it when I was in that position."
Indiana forced two turnovers Saturday — the Mullen sack-fumble and a Jamar Johnson interception. Heading into the game, the Hoosiers led the nation with 16 interceptions, and now have 20 total takeaways on the season.
The biggest flaw of Indiana's defense has been allowing big-play penalties such as roughing the passer and pass interference, but was nearly flawless in this respect Saturday. On defense, the Hoosiers' only penalty was a 15-yard pass interference call on Jaylin Williams.
Indiana's secondary also kept Mertz uncomfortable for most of the game. Mertz completed just 20 of his 34 passes for 202 yards and one interception.
"Our defense always shows up," Mullen said. "We don't turn it off for anybody. It's on for everybody and anybody."
The most important defensive stop of the day came on Wisconsin's final drive of the game. On first down, Micah McFadden went down, grabbed his leg in pain and was checked on by the Indiana medical staff.
It was a loss Indiana couldn't afford, as he has served as Indiana's defensive anchor this season. But McFadden shook it off and returned to the field the very next play.
Mertz looked to catch the Indiana defense sleeping with a draw up the middle on second down, but McFadden crushed him. He was clearly fine. He defines what grit means for Indiana.
"I stayed alive and spun off a block and [Mertz] was right there," McFadden said.
This forced a third-and-10 situation, followed by fourth-and-10, which allowed Indiana's secondary to play its game. Indiana only rushed four men, which allowed the Indiana defense to play to its biggest strength.
The Hoosiers locked in and forced incomplete passes on both plays. And after a few kneel-downs from Tuttle, he looked up to the sky to celebrate his first collegiate win as a starting quarterback.
"It feels amazing," Tuttle said. "So happy for this team. There's things we need to fix, but right now, it feels great."
This win was different than any of Indiana's previous wins in 2020, but was also the most impressive. Before this game, Indiana's best win was a 24-0 blowout of Michigan State, which does not wow any of the top-25 voters, College Football Playoff ranking committee or bowl-game schedulers.
"Coach, this is what I told you we were gunna do."
Freshman Tiawan Mullen continues to improve each game. He even grabbed Tom Allen during the game and told him this is why he came to Indiana. #iufb pic.twitter.com/fmAWpGW6WH
— The Hoosier Network (@TheHoosierNet) November 3, 2019
It was an important win because Indiana proved it doesn't need Penix to compete with the top teams in the conference. Allen said before the game that football is the greatest team sport and that every aspect of the team needed to improve by one percent. It's safe to say Indiana answered the call.
"When you ask what looks like a team win in our program," Allen said. "I'm going to point to this."
Evan Gerike · December 5
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How We Met/
For These Partners In Healing, God Wrote The Ultimate Love Story/
For These Partners In Healing, God Wrote The Ultimate Love Story
A couple that heals together, stays together.
Aley Arion
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How We Met is a series where xoNecole talks love and relationships with real-life couples. We learn how they met, how like turned into love, and how they make their love work.
Everyone loves a Cinderella love story. In fact, when most of us daydream about love, there's usually a Prince, a Princess, and a happy ending. As lovely as it might sound, what these fantastical stories have failed to highlight is what happens in the "in-between". The days when romanization meets the sobering realities of when love looks less like a fairy tale and more like sacrifice. Truth be told, that might actually make a better story. Still, this alt-fairy tale may not be too far off script as one could imagine, just ask Kyle and Kobe Campbell.
When Kobe and Kyle first met, most people would think that the environment where their initial attraction sparked wasn't exactly conducive for what would later come out of it. The two met in college and lived in the town where Kyle's father leads the largest Black church in the community. "Think Greenleaf," shared Kobe, 27, to describe the church they both attended. When the two met in college, Kyle, 26, was the guy that all the church girls in town were convinced would be their husband. And as their courtship progressed, Kyle's social status and Kobe's introduction to it, began to take a strain on the early days of their courtship. Still, in the midst of their rocky beginnings, they knew that what they were experiencing was all a part of the greater plan and love story that God was writing for them.
Courtesy of Kyle and Kobe Campbell
Now the couple works to bring light to mental health, faith, and relationships through their podcast, The Healing Circle, and have founded a non-profit, The Healing Circle Therapy Fund. Through their work, the two are showing the world what love looks like when two people are committed to each other's healing. "God dispelled so many myths for us, the idea that the things God called you to [were] meant to be and come easy and that just isn't true. Don't give up on love just because it's hard."
In this installment of How We Met, we learn about the power of healing, growing (up) together in love, and how God can write the ultimate love story.
How They Met
Kobe: There are two sides to the story. I met Kyle coherently at bible study, through some mutual friends, my sophomore year of college. Kyle, would you like to tell your side of the story?
Kyle: OK, there's what she said and then there's the truth (laughs). The truth is, a year before that bible study, "B.C." (or before Christ), I met her at the club. She was throwing it and I was catching it. We danced all night and I went home and told my brother, "I met the woman I'm going to marry." And I didn't see her again for a year until that bible study.
Kobe: I didn't remember dancing with him at the club because I was very drunk, and when we got married, he kept telling people that we met at the club. I thought it was a joke at first until I realized he was serious and I was like, "Stop telling people that." Especially at church because it's embarrassing. Then he was like, we're going to hash this out right now and started telling me how my hair was, the dress I was wearing. I had a That's So Raven moment and was like, 'Oh my gosh, I remember the night I wore that dress because I had only worn it once.' And all my friends were like, "Get off of him, you've been dancing with him all night," and I was like, "I'm grown!" Turns out, he was my husband. God works in mysterious ways.
Kyle: So, I don't know if you've ever seen Kobe, but I'm sure you're well aware that she's ridiculously good-looking. Gotta be the top 2-3% most beautiful people in the universe. I always thought she was beautiful, even when we first met. I don't know what she thought about me. When we met a year later at the bible study, it was very much so platonic because I was dating someone else. I thought she was beautiful, but I wasn't interested in her in that way. I remembered her from the club!
Kobe: Well, I knew whoever I was dancing with at the club was fine! When I met him at bible study, I thought he was really handsome and just who he was and how much he loved the Lord, was something that was really attractive. But similarly, he was dating someone, and I was like, 'I'm just going to go about my business.' I thought he was a little bit arrogant. He's a PK (Preacher's Kid), so he was the guy that all the girls thought were going to be their husband. I wanted no parts of such foolery, so I very clearly drew the friend line and we just moved forward from there.
Navigating Insecurities
Kobe: It was really difficult. Where [he] lived and went to college, Kyle's dad is the pastor of the biggest Black church, so think of it like Greenleaf. It was a very close-knit family and in the minds of the people in the church, Kyle was already married off to the daughter of the assistant pastor. And here I was, this 21-year old girl, like, "Hi, I like this boy and I want to date him," and it brought out my insecurities. I'm a darker skinned woman and I have a twin sister who's fairer skinned than I am, so I was always aware of colorism and comparison. In my childhood, I was taught that men don't marry women darker than them. So when this guy who's a couple of shades lighter than me wants to be with me instead of all these light skin girls who are intelligent and beautiful, it made me suspicious that there must be ulterior motives. But it highlighted the uniqueness that I have because being with Kyle was one of the first times I realized that I have something that no one else has. I didn't have to be the prettiest person in the room, I didn't have to be the skinniest, with the biggest butt or the longest hair, I just needed to be myself.
Kyle: Truth be told, a lot of those "well-meaning" women were actually really vindictive and mean. They would spread rumors about her, that she must have done something to be with me. Everyone thought she was a hoe and called her that to her face. Then I'd have to show up with the DMs from the same girls who were talking about how they would give it up if I gave them the chance. It was tough.
"In my childhood, I was taught that men don't marry women darker than them... being with Kyle was one of the first times I realized that I have something that no one else has. I didn't have to be the prettiest person in the room, I didn't have to be the skinniest, with the biggest butt or the longest hair, I just needed to be myself."
Kyle: I always say that we didn't fall in love, we walked into love and it was slow. We were committed to each other long before we ever liked each other. We didn't really "like" each other until we were engaged. We respected each other and saw value in each other but we didn't really have the honeymoon phrase. We were just out here holding hands and having hard conversations.
Kobe: That needs to be put on a t-shirt! Kyle has given me a physical reference for what it means for God to never leave me or forsake me. No matter what I do, Kyle always has the most kind and gracious response. If I say something to hurt him, his response is, "I know you're hurting right now and I want to walk with you in that." Just like the Lord, he disarms the shell that I'm so used to operating in and sees right through it. I can go off, and he's not going to speak to how I'm manifesting my anger, he's going to speak to the anger. And he makes me feel like I deserve love. And for a long time, I didn't think I deserved that. It's never an act, it's just who he is.
Making It Official
Kyle: The courtship was pretty interesting, we had an honest conversation and I told her that I felt like I really wanted to pursue a deeper relationship with her. She told me that she might be attracted to me all of a sudden, out of nowhere, but didn't want to talk about it again. Then she high-fived me and said, "Let's give it 30 days and it will go away." I took her advice and 30 days later I came back and my feelings hadn't changed, so I asked if I could pursue her and she said no. The next few months were just me asking her If I could take her out and going through more extreme lengths. I asked her dad before we were dating if I could marry her and he told me if I could get her to like me, he was all good with me marrying her. After that, it was really just me knocking at the proverbial door trying to get her to like me until I kind of just annoyed her into answering it.
Kobe: I think we went into things sober-minded, knowing that there wouldn't be a honeymoon phase. If I'm just being candid, the beginning of our relationship was the first time I had experienced depression that strongly before. It was a lot of what led me to become a therapist myself because that time was just so formative for me. The amount of social kick-back from Kyle saying that he wanted to be with me was just something that I wasn't used to. It felt like my life was not my own, but I knew God had called me to this person, but with his person came all these things I didn't like. There were a lot of women at our church who had known Kyle since they were like 12 years old, and they had an eye on him and were very upset [about him dating me] and were very vocal about it. That was the first time in my life I found myself being quiet; I was just the new girl who was really disliked because I was with Kyle which was really confusing because I knew I was called to be with him.
"I always say that we didn't fall in love, we walked into love and it was slow. We were committed to each other long before we ever liked each other... We respected each other and saw value in each other but we didn't really have the honeymoon phrase. We were just out here holding hands and having hard conversations."
Kyle: Love and marriage is not about happiness, it's about healing. Having one can bring you the other, but it doesn't work in reverse. Being happy won't make you healed, but after enough healing has been applied, you will definitely be happy. Our relationship was not filled with all the happiness in the beginning because it was really just focused on a lot of healing. We were in the type of relationship that most people would tell us to get out of. The world would say, "You don't owe this person this type of commitment, clearly something that hurts this much cannot be good." But we were encouraged in our relationship that this wasn't something we experienced before, but there had to be something at the end: and it was healing.
Kobe: It's OK to sacrifice for other people if you feel like it's worth it. People would say, "Stop sacrificing so much," but in my heart I knew [our love] could save his life. And looking back I lost nothing that mattered and gained everything that did.
Keeping The Faith
Kobe: Kyle and I made an agreement that we would do our best to love God more than we loved each other and anytime we felt like we loved each other more than we loved God, we had to check each other. The reference of me saying that it's OK to suffer for someone if you feel like you can save their life wasn't just something that I came up with, that's what I've experienced from Jesus. And I think sometimes our ideas of love look more like mutual convenience than it looks like sacrifice. Kyle says that the hard times feel like, "Day 2," and Day 2 looks like God's a liar and that every miracle Jesus did was in vain. But then Day 3 comes and now Day 2 looks like the liar. So for us, if we did not have the Lord, we would not be together.
Kyle: Our faith anchors us, it puts context into what it meant to be together. It wasn't about how happy we could make each other, God was like, "I have something really good for you if you trust me and move forward in faith." Since our commitment was to the Lord and not to each other, we got to a point where we were really freed up to love each other really well.
"Love and marriage is not about happiness, it's about healing. Having one can bring you the other, but it doesn't work in reverse. Being happy won't make you healed, but after enough healing has been applied, you will definitely be happy."
Kyle: Very easy for [me]. My favorite thing about Kobe is her generosity. People say they know generous people, but Kobe is different. If she sees a homeless person asking for money, not only does she give every single time, she'll go out of the way to go to the bank to give them money. There are folks that have a commitment to doing the right thing but there are some people who wouldn't have it any other way, it's just who she intrinsically is.
Kobe: I love how gracious he is. Kyle has never let something I've said or done define who I or anyone else is. He will always be the person who sees beyond the moment. He also has this child-like joy that I love. He's just so free, loving, and hilarious and that's not something I was able to see in Black men growing up. Now, I get to live with that every day.
Kyle: The biggest piece of evidence of, "Two different purposes combining to be more than they are separately," gets into our non-profit, The Healing Circle Therapy Fund, which addresses the economic side of the mental health care gap of POC, and the emotional aspect of people who need healing and the disparity in the number of African American therapists who can help them. I'm highly analytical and Kobe is the Einstein of emotional intelligence. She can't do math very well, she counts on her fingers sometimes, but emotionally, she is a genius. In this non-profit that we started it came out of her having a dream and seeing the need for people and her moving recklessly in that direction. She saw that she had clients that needed therapy, but just couldn't afford it, so she started her own practice. Six months in, we started losing money because she was paying for more therapy than she was being paid for. So I said, tell me what the problems are in your industry and he taught me about it and we put a plan together to help fix it.
Kobe: I think the more we became healed individually, the more we realized that our passions didn't match but they complement each other. For me, my passion is healing. I do consultations with Corporate American businesses but I primarily provide therapy for women of color who have experienced trauma. For me, healing is my thing. So for Kyle, his analytical mind marries my passion where he can make it logistically possible [to achieve] the dreams we have.
For more of Kobe and Kyle, follow them on Instagram @healingcirclepod and @urban_apologist.
Featured image courtesy of Kobe and Kyle Campbell
Originally published May 27, 2020
Aley Arion is a writer and digital storyteller from the South, currently living in sunny Los Angeles. Her site, yagirlaley.com, serves as a digital diary to document personal essays, cultural commentary, and her insights into the Black Millennial experience. Follow her at @yagirlaley on all platforms!


Nothing screams "Beam me up Scotty" like the UFO looking Lenticular Cloud!
Because its dramatic appearance and smooth, lens shape, people have been mistaking this cloud for a flying saucer or "visual cover" for UFO's for decades.
Technically known as "altocumulus lenticularis" clouds, these clouds are stationary and usually form over or downwind of mountain chains.
Saucer shaped lenticular cloud spotted over Patagonia, Argentina.
When strong upper winds carry stable but moist air over a mountains, a series of large-scale standing waves forms on the downwind side. These waves cause the air to lift and condense into smooth stratiform clouds.
Once the air descends on the back side of the wave, the air is warmed as the cloud evaporates.
This continual cycle of rising and sinking motion over the same area creates the appearance of stationary, and sometimes multiple stacked, lens shaped lenticular clouds.
The clouds can be seen as far as 60 miles downwind of the hills or mountains that led to their formation and they are believed to be one of the most common explanations for UFO sightings across the world.
Sometimes these clouds form directly over the summit of mountains dramatically altering thier appearances on an otherwise crystal clear day.
Bevan posted this time lapst video of the above scene on YouTube. It's well worth the watch!
If you have an idea for a CRAZY CLOUDS topic, you can email me at jkappell@wdrb.com.


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Judd Apatow wrote an episode for 'The Simpsons' in the '90s, and it's finally airing
Gina Vaynshteyn
Updated Jan 04, 2015 @ 8:28 am
More likely than not, you've probably had something rejected. A script, an essay, a story, a poem, a proposal, artwork. Most of us have crushingly experienced having our creative work turned down, but we're definitely not alone in this. Judd Apatow, executive producer of GIRLS, This is 40, The Five-Year Engagement, writer of Funny People, Pineapple Express, Knocked Up (and like a billion more titles) and overall very successful human, was initially rejected when he wrote a script for The Simpsons back in 1990. Yup. JUDD APATOW.
At the time, Apatow was a 22-year-old major Simpsons fan who was pining for a writing career in television. He stated,"At the time I was a fledgling standup comic and people said, 'If you want to write for sitcoms, you need to do spec scripts. Only six episodes of The Simpsons had aired at that point but I tried to copy the style and did a spec script." A spec script is an unsolicited screenplay usually written by someone who hopes their work will be picked up and purchased to be made into a film or TV episode. In Apatow's case, it surely wasn't.
"I sent it in —in fact, I sent it to all my favorite shows —and got no job offers," Apatow added. It's hard to believe that Seth Rogen's maker is not immune to failure, but it turns out he's mortal just like the rest of us. WHO KNEW?
Al Jean, the executive producer of The Simpsons, finally decided to air the episode after he saw Apatow give an interview at the LA County Museum, where the producer mentioned his spec script that never went anywhere.
The episode actually sounds super amazing, so I'm kind of surprised it was never picked up. According to Ace Showbiz, the episode titled "Bart's New Friend" (which airs Sunday, January 11th on FOX) revolves around Homer, who "gets hypnotized and thinks he's a 10-year-old. He has such a great time being Bart's friend that he doesn't want to become an adult again." Awww, 22-year-old Judd! We like the way you think. While the episode won't be untouched (Apatow revealed that parts have naturally been edited and retouched by the Simpsons writers), we'll still get to take a peak inside the mind of '90s Judd, and that's super rad.


Oh it's hot! Everything summer, all things summertime -- music, picnics, barbecues, lake swimming and berry-picking.
The wild profusion of bright fruit, golden mangoes, crisp blueberries, deep red watermelon, the yellow-pinkish hues of Rainier cherries.
The stark heat of the day, oppressive and warm, being melted away by a few moments in front of the chill of the AC.
Cold water straight from the fridge, so icy, it tastes of nothing at all, you can't get enough of it.
A long road trip with someone who doesn't need much from you, pleased just to exist near each other.
Running back up the beach after swimming, the molten hot sand of the beach burning your feet, hiding away under an umbrella as the warm air dries your hair and skin.
Early morning, the day already too hot, that first sip of iced coffee hitting the back of your throat and calming you down.
Escaping to the quiet cool of the movie theater, iced cold Coke in hand, ready to be not so in your head for few hours.
Braving the long lines at the local ice cream store, trying something new, something you wouldn't normally get.
The smell of the barbecue wafting into the house from outdoors, spicy sausage, corn being grilled in the husk, barbecue sauce - sweet and tangy.
Berry picking with friends, hidden away under the brim of your sun hat, the berries so ripe and warm right off the vine, better than you've ever tasted before.
The snazzy new swimsuit that fills you with pleasure, a suit that allows you to feel like yourself, to move and swim, play and rest.
Drinking late with friends on a patio, catching the last light of the sun through spark of stars, lights across the patio glowing warm and friendly, casting shadows.
The smell of sunscreen lightly on the skin of someone you loved an instant time travel device to summers at the community pool, long days at the beach.
Hearing that one song that seems to dominate for a few months, kind of pouring out of doorways and from the windows of passing cars, the soundtrack of summer.
When it finally cools off enough at night to remember who you are, to look around you, noticing the life that you were leading and remember how fast it all goes and to really enjoy the summer.
Watching everything in your garden grow, grow, grow, surprising you daily with the abundance of flowers, new leaves, sprouts from out of nowhere.
Sun tea, steeped outside for hours, mixed with homemade lemonade and ice, cold and so sweet, it almost makes your teeth hurt.
Catching yourself for one moment at the edge of the lake, the wind whipping your hair, your legs strong under you and feeling overcome with gratitude for who you are and with peace for where you are.


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Nation honors veterans' service, sacrifice on Nov. 11
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Troops conduct bayonet practice at Camp Bowie in Fort Worth, Texas., ca. 1918. (Courtesy of National Archives)
DENNIS C. DRAKE
U.S. Army Hawaii
U.S. Army Garrison Hawaii
Ninety-nine years ago this Saturday – Nov. 11, 1918, at 11 a.m. on the 11th day of the 11th month – the guns fell silent over the bloody battlefields of Europe after four years of slaughter, ending World War I.
On that day, an armistice was signed between the United States, the Allied powers, including Great Britain, France, Italy and others, and the defeated Central powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey.
Nov. 11 became known as Armistice Day, designated as a holiday in the U.S., signifying the end of the "War to End All Wars" – the greatest armed conflict the world had known.
More than 18.5 million military and civilians, including 117,000 Americans, lost their lives during the bloodshed. Four and a half million Americans served in its armed forces as the U.S. became a world power.
World War I ushered in the modern era of warfare – machine guns, tanks, airplanes, long-range artillery, submarines, chemical warfare and other deadly weapons.
Many U.S. units trace their lineage to the battlefields of France – the infantry patches of the Big Red One, the 2nd Infantry Division (ID), 3rd ID, 4th ID, I Corps, III Corps, 1st Army, 3rd Army and many others. In the years since World War I, many of the Army's installations, organizations and infrastructure we still use originated in the 1917-1918 era.
In 1921, Arlington National Cemetery became the focal point of reverence for America's veterans when an unknown World War I American Soldier was buried there.
As terrible as World War I was, however, the "War to End All Wars" was only a dream.
Just a scant 20 years later a rearmed Germany, now aligned with Italy and Japan, invaded Poland, Sept. 1, 1939, plunging the world again into global war.
After six horrific years, World War II ended, but not before over 72 million had perished in the largest war in history, including 6 million men, women and children systematically killed in the Nazi gas chambers. This time, the U.S. mobilized more than 16 million in the armed forces, 418,000 of them dying in service.
Armistice Day continued to be celebrated on Nov. 11, but the Second World War's VE Day, Victory in Europe, and VJ Day, Victory in Japan, overshadowed it. In 1954, Congress passed a bill proclaiming Nov. 11 as Veterans Day honoring all of America's veterans from all conflicts.
When World War II ended in 1945, peace was again short lived. The United States was thrust into a 40-year Cold War with the Soviet Union, erupting into very hot and prolonged conflicts in Korea in 1950 and Vietnam in 1961.
In 1958, two more unidentified American war dead were brought from overseas and interred in Arlington beside the unknown Soldier of World War I. One was killed in World War II, the other in the Korean War.
In 1984, an unknown service man from the Vietnam War was placed alongside the others, though later identified and exhumed for burial. To honor these men, symbolic of all Americans who gave their lives in all wars, an Army honor guard, the 3rd U.S. Infantry (The Old Guard), keeps day and night vigil at the Tomb of the Unknowns.
Christmas mail arrives for U.S. Soldiers in Bruvans, France, during World War I, circa 1917.
When the Soviet empire collapsed in 1991 and democracy spread throughout eastern Europe, it seemed for a short while that the dream of peace would finally ensue as after World War I. But armed warfare continued to involve the U.S. Army throughout the 1990s in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and elsewhere.
Then, Sept. 11, 2001, changed everything for America. The war on terror has now lasted for the past 16 years.
Though World War I ended 99 years ago this Saturday, this past century has been a continuum of war – intricately linking today's Army with the units, traditions, insignia, tactics, weapons and uniforms that have evolved over 99 years.
Think of the contrast between warfare over this period and the type of warfare fought 99 years prior to World War I. The modern era makes warfare from the War of 1812 to World War I seem like ancient history.
This Saturday, let us remember all our veterans of the past 99 years and before. Their service and sacrifice have given us the enduring freedoms of today. World War I Soldiers have now passed into history, and World War II veterans are quickly leaving our ranks.
Take a moment to thank a veteran. It's a small gesture, but well worth the effort.
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About Rebecca
Rebecca Connors graduated from Boston University with a BA in English. After graduation, she spent time roaming across the map. Raised in Bethesda, MD, she has lived in the small town of Shelby, NC and on the west coast, in San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA.
She is now back in Boston with her family, where she recently earned an MFA at the Solstice MFA program at Pine Manor College now at Lasell University. Along with her writing, she works at the New Art Center in Newton and volunteers at Lily Poetry Review. She and fellow poet, Lisa Allen founded The Notebooks Collective as a response to the isolation from Covid-19. Through this collective, she teaches workshops, curates events, and provides writing support.
In addition, she serves on the board of the New England Poetry Club and on the advisory board of the Solstice MFA Program.
She has too many plants and a weakness for regency romances, horror stories, and disease ecology. She also has a tuxedo cat named Lizzie.
Her work has recently appeared in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Menacing Hedge, Glass Poetry Journal and elsewhere. Her poems have been nominated for the Orison Anthology and the Pushcart Prize.
Her chapbook manuscript, Split Map, won the Dare to Speak Chapbook Contest and was published by Minerva Rising Press in Spring 2019.


It's so exciting for couples to see their sample table settings and centerpiece mock-ups. Today at Square Root Design, we held a sample table setting for a couple who will be celebrating their wedding reception at the St. Regis Monarch Beach, Club 19. The bride LOVES Pikake (AKA Arabian Jasmine) so we flew it in all the way from the Island of Maui for her to see… and smell! Pikake is a very fragrant flower which is one of the reasons she has chosen to have it in her bridal bouquet as well as throughout the ceremony decor. For the reception, they've selected a pallet of bright oranges, blacks, and deep reds. We will be creating their vision with the usage of black Bacarra Roses, black Manzanita branches and Pin Cushion Protea for their pop of orange. The reception theme of an 'up-beat fun nightclub lounge' will be brought to life with mood lighting, an array of different sized mirrors, fabrics, unique candle treatments and elements of stone.


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British vote 'yes' to egovernment
A study of 4,000 UK adults has found that 42 percent had used the internet to access information about government or local council services, or completed a government form or process online in the last year.
This shot up to 55 percent amongst adults with home internet access.
The study, conducted by OfCom also indicated that,
More than 70 per cent of those we surveyed online (and 60 per cent of the general population) said the web had made it easier to engage in citizen participation activities, such as contacting an MP or signing a petition.
But despite an increase in web-based activities, many people still want to keep traditional methods of contact.
For example, 33 per cent of those we surveyed online would rather deal with someone face to face, such as when contacting their MP.
However in areas of 'multiple deprivation', where people are more likely to be experiencing poverty, low employment, high crime, poor health and less access to services,
More than 70 per cent in those areas were also unaware of online citizen participation opportunities, almost half did not sufficiently trust the internet for these activities and 40 per cent said they lacked confidence to participate in citizen activities online.
In other people, poor and less educated people (who presumably also have less access to the internet) are less likely to realise the benefits they can receive from egovernment, trust the internet or be confident online participants.
These findings suggest that alongside education and employment access improvements, improving access to internet services can improve participation in egovernment - which makes sense to me.
They also suggest, in my view, that the internet is a great supplement and mechanism for expanding participation, but doesn't replace the need for face-to-face and phone services.
Finally the findings also suggested to me that, at least in the UK, the digital divide may still be a very wide one indeed, hence their initiative to roll out 100Mb broadband as a basic service alongside electricity, sewage and water supply.
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Elmore James is a giant of the blues. His work as a songwriter, singer and guitarist put him near the top of the short list of greats. The songs he wrote and revived— "Dust My Broom", "Cry For Me Baby" and "Rollin' and Tumblin'" —are revered as blues standards.
It's one of the most widely played songs in the blues, but not much is known about Robert Petway, the man who recorded the definitive early version of "Catfish Blues". The scant information that exists tells a familiar story of a Delta musician who headed to Chicago to make records.


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I am a female student from Burkina Faso University Teachings Hospitals (BUTH)Burkina Faso , Ouagadougou . My father died earlier eight months ago and left i and my junior brother behind. He was a king, which our town citizens titled him over sixteen years ago before his death. I was a princess to him and my mother is not literate enough to know my father's entire wealth.
He left the sum of USD4.350.000.00US dollars. In a security company, this money was annually paid into my late fathers account from the Gold mining company and Colton processing Company operating in our locality for the compensation of youth and community development in our jurisdiction.
I don't know somewhere in abroad to invest the money so that my father's kindred will not take over what belongs to my father and our family because I,m a female according to our African tradition.
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UCLA Football: Senior Josh Woods Is Happy to Be Playing Football Again
After suffering a season-ending injury last season, Josh Woods is happy to be back on the field.
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The UCLA Bruins were back at practice yesterday and it was the linebackers' turn to take the spotlight. After practice, Leni Toailoa and Josh Woods both met with the media. There were two bits of interesting news. First, Woods is really happy to be back on the field playing football after suffering a season-ending injury last season. Second, Woods is now playing outside linebacker rather than the more familiar inside linebacker position he's played the past few years.
But, before I get to Woods, let's talk about Leni Toailoa. That's because Toailoa was up first and he spoke about what it's like to have Woods back as a vocal defensive leader after losing him to a season-ending injury in training camp last year.
"It's just another vocal leader," Toailoa said. "We lost like [Adarius Pickett] last year as one of our vocal leaders and Josh would have been one too last year but, since he wasn't able to participate, he just stayed on the sidelines. But, now, he's back. You hear his voice. He's on the sidelines trying to get all the guys to bring some juice to the defense and stuff like that. So, it's kind of different. We needed it because we got another field general out there. So, that's good."
The first half of yesterday's practice wasn't up to par, apparently. Toailoa noted that the players were in shorts for the first half of practice, but, then, Chip Kelly had the players put the pads on. Toailoa explained:
The energy was low. You didn't hear nobody echoing team periods and stuff like that. There was no energy on our sideline or on the blue sideline. So, altogether, just low energy as well people kept falling. We can't have that in practice. It just wasn't up to our standard. So, he made us go put our pads on.
Josh Woods followed Toailoa and after making some jokes about his new hairstyle, he spoke about what it's like to be playing football again. "I'm just so happy," Woods exclaimed. "I'm just so grateful to be out here with my brothers again and just be able to compete. Being sidelined, you really don't want to take anything for granted and you just appreciate just being able to do what you doing. The daily...even the grind and times where people try to say camp sucks and all this and that. I'm just happy to be out here and not being in a yellow jersey and not be in a bed with my leg propped up, not being able to walk."
Woods also spoke about his transition from inside linebacker to outside linebacker. "I started there sophomore year," he said. "So, I have a little familiarity with it. I'm just still getting used to this new defense a little bit as far as sometimes being an edge rusher and things like that but, with help from Coach Kaufusi, Coach Azz and even having Keisean on the sideline helping me with the different calls and techniques, it's helped me out a lot."
Woods continued, "I think personally that I can do whatever they need me to do. I'm just gonna do whatever I can to help our team out. So, if they want me to play outside, I'll play outside. If they want me to play inside, I'll play inside. I'm just trying to be versatile."
Thanks to UCLA Athletics for sharing yesterday's post-practice video of Toailoa and Woods.
On the injury front, Ben Bolch of the Los Angeles Times notes that Alec Anderson appears to have suffered an unknown injury. Bolch writes:
A day after Kelly said he was pleased with his offensive line depth because of a relative lack of injuries, another player had gone down. Redshirt freshman Alec Anderson, the leading candidate to start at left tackle, was wearing a yellow jersey to signal he was recovering from an unknown injury. UCLA was already without backup center Sam Marrazzo, who recently hurt his leg and has been moving around on crutches.
Finally this morning, have you signed up for the new SB Nation Fan Pulse yet? The plan is to have our own Bruins Nation Top 25, but we can only do that if we get enough signups. Right now, it looks like we need a minimum of about 20 more sign-ups, but ideally about 70 more. So, please sign up now if you haven't already.
Go Bruins!!!


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Storm clouds lift over JMW Turner paintings at National Museum Cardiff in Wales
For the first time ever, visitors to National Museum Cardiff will be able to see Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales' seven oil paintings by one of Britain 's most celebrated artists, JMW Turner (1775-1851) displayed together, at a new exhibition which opened on Tuesday, 25 September 2012.
Until recently, Amgueddfa Cymru could claim to have only four Turner oils in the collection, but now after recent research and examination by Museum experts and with the help of the BBC's Fake or Fortune programme, which was broadcast on Sunday (23 September, 7.00pm, BBC One) it has been concluded that all seven are authentic Turner oil paintings.
The three paintings, which were in question and which were highlighted in BBC's Fake or Fortune programme are Beacon Light, Margate Jetty and Off Margate.
All seven of the paintings were bequeathed to the Museum in 1951 and 1963 as genuine works by Turner by Gwendoline and Margaret Davies. The Davies sisters of Llandinam are most renowned for their collection of impressionist paintings however Turner was undoubtedly one of their favourite artists and one of the first artists that they acquired. Between 1908 and 1926 the Davies sisters collected an impressive 13 watercolours and 9 oil paintings. Although bought at different times and from different sources, all of the oil paintings were thought to have come from the same small group of late seascapes.
Doubts about the Davies Turners were first expressed by the dealers Agnews, shortly after Gwendoline's bequest to the Museum. A memo from the Keeper of Art to the Director in 1955 states, 'I find it hard to understand this criticism, but since it comes from that particular source, we are obliged to take it seriously.'
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When we refer to online games, we usually mean video-type games that we play on a computer over the Internet. Some video games are played over the Internet using mobile phones and game consoles, but generally speaking, online games mean computer games that need an Internet connection to play. Simple text-based multiplayer games were the first of these types of games, as Internet connections were slow and expensive when these games were first introduced in the 1980s. Gradually, these games became popular in the 1990s, with today's online games featuring virtual communities, realistic graphics, and multiplayer games where people can even play one-on-one or in knockout tournaments for cash prizes. We all know that the Internet is the fastest growing market in the history of the world, but did you know that there is an online gaming sector that is growing 4 times faster than the Internet in general? Yes! and it is the "Online Skill Games" market.
There are many styles of online games
Some of the different types of online games that exist:
1. RTS Games: This type of game is all about strategy where in order for your army to fight successfully against the other players on the internet, you need to develop a game plan by creating lots of resources.
2. First Person Shooter: Here players compete against each other one on one. In most first person games, online play allows for Death Match or Arena style of play. In this style of play, the view you see is the view from your character's eyes.
3. Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs): In these types of games each person has to keep trying to reach the next highest level until they have reached the highest written for that game and these online games can simultaneously have , thousands of players from all over the world, playing in a giant virtual world interacting against each other. Players can keep playing these types of games for months or even years!
4. Browser Games: These are quick, simple, and small hobby games that are played in your browser. The popular Java and Shockwave technologies are used to develop these games.
5. Online Skill Games: An online skill-based game is a web game played in a tournament or one-on-one format. Each player pays a cash entry fee to play with a cash or merchandise prize for the winner(s). The outcome of each competition is based on the player's skill and performance, not luck.
How do online gaming companies make money?
All games today can be played online. How do we make money? This is the question that companies that make online games เว็บบอล must ask themselves. Most companies make single player games that are played at home and in this the player has to beat the artificial intelligence of the enemy. Today, these games usually include an online multiplayer version that can be played against or with other players on the Internet. Selling their game DVDs/CDs is how these companies make their profits, e.g. Warcraft 3 and Counter Strike. Advertising and promotions is how browser game companies make money. MMORPG companies usually charge their players a monthly fee and continue to add content by scheduling new scenarios etc. in their games, e.g. Everquest 2 and World of Warcraft. Some don't, but survive because their DVD/CD sales are high, e.g. Guild Wars.


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The Sharks Circling Around Corbyn Scent Blood
By Jonathan Cook | Dissident Voice | March 27, 2018
After a short reprieve following Jeremy Corbyn's unexpected success in Britain's general election last year, when he only narrowly lost the popular vote, most of the Labour parliamentary party are back, determined to bring him down. And once again, they are being joined by the corporate media in full battle cry.
Last week, Corbyn was a Soviet spy. This week we're in more familiar territory, even if it has a new twist: Corbyn is not only a friend to anti-semites, it seems, but now he has been outed as a closet one himself.
In short, the Blairites in the parliamentary party are stepping up their game. Corbyn's social justice agenda, his repudiation of neoconservative wars of aggression masquerading as "humanitarianism" – lining the coffers of the west's military-industrial elites – is a genuine threat to those who run our societies from the shadows.
The knife of choice for the Labour backstabbers this time is a wall mural removed from East London in 2012. At that time, before he became Labour leader, Corbyn expressed support on Facebook for the artist, Kalen Ockerman, known as Mear One. Corbyn observed that a famous anti-capitalist mural by the left-wing Mexican artist Diego Rivera was similarly removed from Manhattan's Rockefeller Centre in 1934.
Interestingly, the issue of Corbyn's support for the mural – or at least the artist – originally flared in late 2015, when the Jewish Chronicle unearthed his Facebook post. Two things were noticeably different about the coverage then.
First, on that occasion, no one apart from the Jewish Chronicle appeared to show much interest in the issue. Its "scoop" was not followed up by the rest of the media. What is now supposedly a major scandal, one that raises questions about Corbyn's fitness to be Labour leader, was a non-issue two years ago, when it first became known.
Second, the Jewish Chronicle, usually so ready to get exercised at the smallest possible sign of anti-semitism, wasn't entirely convinced back in 2015 that the mural was anti-semitic. In fact, it suggested only that the mural might have "antisemitic undertones" – and attributed even that claim to Corbyn's critics.
And rather than claiming, as the entire corporate media is now, that the mural depicted a cabal of Jewish bankers, the Chronicle then described the scene as "a group of businessmen and bankers sitting around a Monopoly-style board and counting money". By contrast, the Guardian abandoned normal reporting conventions yesterday to state in its news – rather than comment – pages unequivocally that the mural was "obviously antisemitic".
Not that anyone is listening now, but the artist himself, Kalen Ockerman, has said that the group in his mural comprised historical figures closely associated with banking. His mural, he says, was about "class and privilege", and the figures depicted included both "Jewish and white Anglos". The fact that he included famous bankers like the Rothschilds (Jewish) and the Rockefellers (not Jewish) does not, on the face of it, seem to confirm anti-semitism. They are simply the most prominent of the banking dynasties most people, myself included, could name. These families are about as closely identified with capitalism as it is possible to be.
There is an argument to be had about the responsibilities of artists – even street artists – to be careful in their visual representations. But Ockerman's message was not a subtle or nuanced one. He was depicting class war, the war the capitalist class wages every day on the weak and poor. If Ockerman's message is inflammatory, it is much less so than the reality of how our societies have been built on the backs and the suffering of the majority.
Corbyn has bowed to his critics – a mix of the Blairites within his party and Israel's cheerleaders – and apologised for offering support to Ockerman, just as he has caved in to pressure each time the anti-semitism card has been played against him.
This may look like wise, or safe, politics to his advisers. But these critics have only two possible outcomes that will satisfy them. Either Corbyn is harried from the party leadership, or he is intimidated into diluting his platform into irrelevance – he becomes just another compromised politician catering to the interests of the 1 per cent.
The sharks circling around him will not ignore the scent of his bloodied wounds; rather, it will send them into a feeding frenzy. As hard as it is to do when the elites so clearly want him destroyed, Corbyn must find his backbone and start to stand his ground.
This piece in the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz by their senior columnnist Anshel Pfeffer sums up a lot of the sophistry (intentional or otherwise) underscoring the conflation of left wing critiques of neoliberalism and globalism with right wing ultra-nationalism and anti-semitism.
Pfeffer writes:
The conspiracy theories of globalist bankers utilizing mainstream media and corrupt neoliberal politicians to serve their selfish sinister purposes, rather than those of ordinary people, are identical whether from left or right.
And on either side, most of the theorists will never admit to being anti-Semitic. They are just "anti-racist" or "anti-imperialist" if on the left, or "pro-Israel" on the right. And most of them really believe they have nothing against Jews, even while parroting themes straight out of the Protocols [of the Elders of Zion].
Notice the problem here. If you are a radical leftist who believes, as generations of leftists before you have done, that military, political, media, and financial elites operate in the shadows to promote their interests, to wage class war, then not only are you a conspiracy theorist, according to Pfeffer, but you are by definition anti-semitic as well. If you believe that an Establishment or a Deep State exists to advance its interests against the great majority, you must hate Jews.
The logic of Corbyn's critics has rarely been articulated so forthrightly and so preposterously as it is here by Pfeffer. But make no mistake, this is the logic of his critics.
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Its a cool game.. I think it would be nice if you do a 5v5 and 3v3 league for it!! What you think?
That is an interesting suggestion, I know the game is pretty popular. Do you think there would be enough people willing to participate in this kind of competition? Did you see some posts in the community forums and such?
For example we are doing a Greek tournament 5v5 with 9 teams right now and is active!!
Also you can add a replay system in this game, with a mod they made!
The game is realy active, if you check esl, clanbase there are many teams playing.
A post here : http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/ is inaugh!
It's a really active game, with some advertising it should be easy to get enough people. If you want to start with one, I'd start with 5on5 as this is the most popular game type.
This is very interesting. If we can find someone willing to admin, we can certainly host a league.
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I have been blogging for nearly one year. In that short time, I have met some incredible people, many of whom are authors. We've shared laughs, frustrations, celebrations, and advice.
I'd like to solicit some of that advice.
SO…I would be delighted to hear your opinions about the latest draft of my blurb. Any input is welcomed and appreciated. I also welcome your advice and tips for writing book blurbs. Thank you!
Fairies, music, and dust! Oh my!
Messy house? It's not your fault. The Dust Fairies are a community of quirky, mischievous creatures who delight in making messes while hidden from sight. And when the band strikes up the music, the dust really starts to fly.
When Aggie tries to join the fairy band, it doesn't go as planned. Now, she is faced with a tough decision. Should she change who she is to fit in, or embrace who she is and stand out?
Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. I am blessed to be part of such a supportive group of bloggers. Here's a revised "blurb" based on your feedback. I also added some of Kevin Richter's latest sketches.
Fairies, music, and dust! Oh, my! Aggie is a little Dust Fairy with a big problem. She wants to join the fairy band, but they don't approve of her offbeat style. Now, she's faced with a tough decision. Should she change who she is to fit in or embrace who she is and stand out?