What do you enjoy the most about teaching?
I love being apart of the fulfilling journey - teaching, supporting and encouraging my students as their self-confidence, skills, passions and inspirations develop to their full potential into a qualified beauty therapist.
Facials, waxing and body massage.
Having my own successful beauty business in Bloomsbury, London in 2008, becoming a beauty lecturer and recently teaching a mobile treatment service website business.
What is your beauty motto?
Always wear SPF, lots of beauty sleep, water and always remember beauty isn't about having a pretty face, it's about a beautiful soul.
What made you decide to go into education and teach at LSBM?
Having been in the beauty industry for 17 years and gaining immense experience working as a therapist, salon manager and then business owner; I realised the importance and demand for a high standard of client care and professional excellence in a beauty therapist role. I wanted to pass on my knowledge, skills and experience. I have always wanted to teach and LSBM has an amazing reputation in the industry and worldwide with their high standard of teaching and the variety of qualifications on offer.
I love spending time and creating memories with my husband and two young daughters. I also enjoy researching and gaining knowledge about all the new beauty treatments and products in the beauty industry.
What is your favourite treatment to have and why?
I love facials and a full body massage to relax, switch off and rejuvenate for an hour, it is heaven!
What do you enjoy the most about the beauty industry?
I enjoy how there are so many different career options a beauty therapist can have and there is always so many new products and treatments to learn about in this massive amazing industry I am so passionate about. I also love the fact that you can work anywhere in the world as a beauty therapist, from home or in a salon.
What do you think is the most innovative beauty treatment/product to launch in recent years?
The beauty industry evolves at great speed with an increase of new treatments and products launching every year. There is now a growing interest in natural organic beauty, and my favourite product to launch this year is - Triogy Certified Organic Rosehip Oil Light Blend. This oil is certified organic and the blend is designed specifically for oily combination skin. It helps to regulate the skins oil production, improve skin tone, wrinkles and protect against the environment.


Established in 1998, City Hall Restaurant is a classic New York steak and fish establishment.
City Hall's wine list has been recognized by Wine Spectator with the Best of Award of Excellence for ten consecutive years (2004-2013). We invite you to experience old and New York at City Hall Restaurant and our Five-Star Diamond Award experience.
We invite you to enjoy our Five-Star Diamond Award experience.
Built in an 1863 cast iron land-marked building, we are committed to the farm-to-restaurant relationship. Steps away from "the other" city hall, we are a favorite among government officials and locals.
Didi Delicious "Blueberry High Heels"


Renowned futurist Peter Diamandis, the author of "Abundance – the Future is Better Than You Think" and "Bold – How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World," has written a thoughtful post on Singularity HUB with 8 predictions for the next ten years. He is persuaded that we'll see extraordinary transformation in the next decade and that blockchain technology will be one of the enablers.
Diamandis, who co-founded the XPrize and the Singularity University, believes that Bitcoin is a disruptive technology poised to have a big impact.
In the same article, Diamandis predicted that "Fall 2014 thru 2015 will like see the start of the Wall Street Phase [of Bitcoin]" – a prediction fully validated by current events – and then, "Finally will come the 'Mass Global Consumer Adoption' phase – this is where bitcoin becomes a major player in the global economy." According to Diamandis, this phase is only a couple of years out.
Diamandis' Singularity University, an educational center dedicated to world-changing applications of disruptive, exponentially accelerating technologies, is based at Moffett Federal Airfield, formerly operated by NASA. In November 2014, NASA announced that it would be leasing the airfield to Google for 60 years. Google is one of the corporate founders of Singularity University.
On June 2-3 in New York, Singularity University and CNBC will host the Exponential Finance 2015 conference, which will examine how rapidly accelerating technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, crowdfunding, digital currencies and robotics are rapidly disrupting businesses throughout the financial industry.
The conference program features an impressive set of high-profile speakers, including Blythe Masters, the former J.P. Morgan star who now leads digital currency startup Digital Asset Holdings. Masters' presentation will be titled "Blockchain: the Financial Challenge of our time." Brock Pierce, founder and Managing Partner of Crypto Currency Partners (CCP), and Abra CEO Bill Barhydt will also give talks related to digital currencies.
Another high profile speaker, Singularity University Networks & Computing Chair and former Chairman of the Board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Brad Templeton, is persuaded that bitcoin and other virtual currencies are significant in that they take some aspects of finance that were formerly in the hands of professionals and unlock them for the public at large. In a Big Think video interview, he explains why Bitcoin matters.


Hillsboro Village, located just 3 miles southwest of downtown Nashville on Music City Highway, is a bustling part of town that's also rich with history. It began as a "streetcar suburb", originally accessible via street railway line. After WWII, the area experienced a brief decline as the streetcar was replaced by automobiles, but later hit its resurgence and continued to thrive as people once again recognized the value of convenience.
One of Nashville's most walkable areas, tucked between Vanderbilt and Belmont University, Hillsboro Village is home to dozens of local shops, restaurants, and other neighborhood businesses.
For your morning coffee, visit Fido, then sip and stay awhile, as it's a prime spot for people-watching, while also getting some work done and filling your belly with the first meal of the day. Multi-tasking.
One of Nashville's decades-long dining traditions – Pancake Pantry – offers a taste of a classic Music City breakfast. Be prepared to wait in line, but you can check before you go on their website's Pancake Cam: a nest camera that gives you a preview of just how big of a pre-breakfast snack you need to eat.
Speaking of lines… there's a new location of Biscuit Love in Hillsboro Village – get in early before the secret is out. Don't miss the Bonuts – fried biscuit dough with lemon mascarpone and blueberry compote.
Hopdoddy Burger Bar is a newly opened burger, fries, milkshake haven from Austin, Texas. Pro tip: Order the fries with green chile queso for dipping. You're welcome.
Nosh on gourmet hot dogs at The Dog of Nashville, or choose a sandwich on the artisan bread over at Provence.
Ultimate comfort food destination The Grilled Cheeserie, is the popular food truck's brick and mortar home and the perfect place to get your fill of their gourmet grilled cheeses, piping soups, and creative milkshakes.
The entrance to The Villager Tavern was once the entrance to the Grand Old Opry, so visit to witness another important piece of Music City History… and also to taste a sandwich that was voted one of Nashville's top 25 – the Roast Beef Po' Boy. Plus Happy Hour prices you'll be relieved to find, with $7 pitchers until 7pm on Monday-Friday.
Longtime tenant Jackson's is another popular Hillsboro Village dining destination, known for its sprawling, dog-friendly patio that is covered and open year round.
Pizza Perfect is repeatedly voted best pizza in Nashville, so don't miss a slice of pie here when in Hillsboro Village.
Get your fill of burgers, bar food, and live music nightly over at Belcourt Taps.
After dinner, mosey on over to Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream for an unforgettable sweet treat – they have tons of unique gourmet flavors.
Ladies, load up on the season's latest fashions at Posh, Native + Nomad, Scout & Molly's, and Impeccable Pig.
Pangaea is a place to encounter the unexpected finds of Nashville, from vintage clothing to unique gifts, jewelry, and accessories from all around the globe.
Drop in at the Belcourt Theater, Nashville's nonprofit historic gem, popular with film aficionados, music lovers, and theatergoers.


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Analysis of the tackling knife crime initiative (2017- 2018)
TOOL (i) INPUT, PROCESS, OUTPUT, OUTCOME
Tool (ii) SWOT ANALYSIS a STRESS TEST
Tool (iii) 5A's ON OUTCOME/OPPORTUNITY
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This analysis covers captures narratives (videos, all with implied consent) during seminars organised by the Buganda Heritage Association (BHA) and other forums on same topical issues. Variously BHA had been called upon to co-facilitate shared areas of concern to justify the need for a strategic proactive integrated, collaborative and a patterned approach in better understanding of the significant root causes and/or increase in this blighting knife crime to achieve objective solutions and/or focused means to address it.
In short, the Buganda Heritage Association (BHA) is a UK/Ireland charity involved with the promoting an inter/intra-nationalities culture, welfare and wellbeing of associated nationalities. To this end, was this initiative to tackle knife crime in London which had caused the loss of some 9 lives and serious/critical injuries of the Baganda youth. This trend was evidenced by a Metropolitan police report released between 2014 and 2016 the number of children carrying knives in London schools rose by almost 50%, while the number of knife offences in London schools rose by 26%. More the Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, called it a "wake-up call" (Gary Younge writing in the guardian newspapers –Beyond Blades') March 2017.
The initiative 'tackling knife crime', as referred to here, was about finding ways of 'keeping-in-check' youth involvement in related/negative activities which results in what is called 'knife crime'. After a series of workshops/seminars, the 40 videos captured a range/mix of views and experiences of and from both the youth/adults/police who attended the various sessions. Hence the analysis of the data that follows below.
The analysis uses three sociological tools:
(i) The Input, Process, Output, Outcome – which unpacks the initiatives in the various compartments to enable the reader(s) have an insight on the challenges as captured.
(ii) SWOT - Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat – which stress tests the initiatives for its robustness by unpacking the data into the various compartments to enable the reader(s) have an insight of the participant's own assessment of the initiative.
(iii) 5A – Accessible, Available, Acceptable, Appropriate, Adaptable – this targets the 'Outcome' element as in (i) above; and 'Opportunity' element of SWOT as in (ii) above to engage the readers(s) on participant's insight on the way forward.
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Olly Murs @ My Racecourse
Wrexham AFC, along with partners LHG Live and Orchard Entertainment are proud to announce that My Racecourse. Wrexham will welcome Olly Murs on Saturday 24th June, performing as part of his huge Summer UK Tour.
Following on from his spring arena tour, Olly Murs, one of British music's biggest stars, announces his biggest headline shows yet; 20 outdoor dates across the UK, starting on Friday 02 June through to Saturday 19 August, with more dates to follow.
Olly Murs said, "I am thrilled to play at The Racecourse Ground in Wrexham. Outdoor shows are so much fun and I am looking forward to performing my biggest songs on my biggest outdoor tour!"
Gavin Jones, Wrexham AFC director said, "I'm really excited about welcoming Olly Murs to My Racecourse, we have been working really hard to bring top quality acts such as Olly to the stadium"
"Olly is a top British artist who just this month celebrated his fourth successive number one album, '24 HRS', becoming the most successful solo artist ever to come from the X-Factor"
"I'd like to thank LHG Live, Orchard Entertainment and all of our volunteers who have worked tirelessly day and night to get this over the line."
New single 'Years and Years' is his new album's centre piece; an expansive, explosive, spine-tingling belter and follows the radio favourites 'You Don't Know Love' and 'Grow Up' which Olly recently performed on the X Factor.
Before his huge summer tour, the spring of 2017 will see Olly play 23 UK shows including 3 O2's and the opening night of the Teenage Cancer Trust shows, confirming his reputation as one of Britain's very best live performers.
Since Olly shot to fame in 2009, he has recorded four multi-platinum albums, produced 4 Number 1 singles with total record sales exceeding
10 million. '24 HRS' is the follow up to the acclaimed million selling album 'Never Been Better'.
Further dates and special guest will be announced in coming weeks.
Liz Doogan-Hobbs MBE, CEO of LHG Live, promoter said, "We are delighted to be working with Olly Murs on his UK Summer Tour! Olly is one of the best male solo artists in the UK and the perfect artist for our venues. We expect each show to have a great party atmosphere and look forward to hearing his most popular hits."
Tickets for Olly Murs in Wrexham go on General Sale on Friday 2nd December November at 0900am.
Tickets at My Racecourse are priced at: £39.50 + booking fee (General Admission) and £55.00 + booking fee (Platinum enclosure).
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"Our perspective on motion is at the mercy of chance / Rhythm creates a path through the day." These are the notes from Jamie Hawkesworth's new London show, A Blue Painted Fence. A single room encompasses 59 drawings, seven photographs, and a film. The photographs are the result of Hawkesworth's trips to Kenya, Romania, Louisiana, and beyond.
A Blue Painted Fence indicates how far Hawkesworth has come, from mastering his craft at Preston Bus Station to displaying it in all its glory across 14 rooms at Amsterdam's Huis Marseille. In A Blue Painted Fence, we see him reducing his work down to its essential rhythm, coalescing his experiences in a more minimal setting.
The writing in this show isn't the first time we've seen Hawkesworth break out of his primary medium. Earlier this year he exhibited his first sculptures, and recent travels saw him begin to use writing as a tool for observation.
The show also includes music: a bombastic classical accompaniment to the film which bounces around the otherwise tranquil gallery space. The soundtrack, by the Romanian-born composer Bartók, was the result of weeks spent driving around Romania with nothing but local radio to listen to.
A Blue Painted Fence is open until December 19 at 1-7 Aylesbury Street, London.


Anne Frank's house was my first destination upon arriving in Amsterdam. Entering would have to wait as my tickets were for another day, but something in me just needed to see it. Standing outside this important place in history, which I'd read about my entire life, and that seemed to be just any other ordinary building, was surreal. I suddenly felt as if I were in a fog, I could see and hear the other people around me, but felt strangely outside myself. Sorrow, incredulity, anger rolled over me like a wave. In that moment, right there on that regular sidewalk the joy was sucked right out of me. Simultaneously I was grateful to be standing there. Outside. Grateful that I could be, and that no one was telling me otherwise.
Maybe you're reading the above and thinking, why would anyone willingly put themselves through emotions like that if they didn't have to? I don't blame you, but I strongly believe that in order to protect future generations we must step outside our comfort zone. Keeping these memories alive, no matter how unpleasant, is paramount.
The next morning I got up early and knowing my family needed their rest, I wrote them a note and then went out for a walk around the neighborhood. I wandered back over to the Anne Frank House as I wanted time for a little introspection. I found a cup of coffee and a bench and watched the people go by.
Surprising to me, many of them posed happily by the front door, smiling and laughing while acting goofy. Some seemed to be making a show of being dramatic, a caricature of sorts. Somehow this felt wrong to me. Strange I thought… is this a happy place?
A short while later standing across the canal I listened in on a bike tour. Although the guide did mention the Nazi occupation, the secret annex and that their had been people hiding inside for over two years it was very perfunctory and felt quite shallow.
As soon as we decided upon a visit to Amsterdam I knew I'd be visiting Anne Frank's house and with that knowledge immediately researched making it happen. As it turned out it can be somewhat complicated. Tickets are required, timed and are only available from the official website exactly two months in advance. Due to the museum's popularity they will sell out, so I highly recommend setting a reminder on your calendar. Hopefully, you'll have some flexibility, as even armed with this knowledge I was only able to secure two tickets during the entire duration of our five night stay. This worked out for our family as my little one wasn't quite old enough for this experience.
Visitors between the hours of 9:00 am and 3:30 pm must purchase their tickets in advance online.
You can show your ticket directly from your smart phone.
From 3:30 PM until closing time you can buy a ticket at the museum entrance. I don't recommend this as the lines are extremely long and you won't be guaranteed entrance.
Last entry to the museum is 30 minutes before closing time, but the queue for the Anne Frank House closes earlier. Depending on how busy it is, this can be as much as 2 hours before closing time.
Strollers and large bags aren't allowed inside the museum.
It was simply heartbreaking, but so worth while. I silently cried my way through the entire thing.
Though Simon recently studied Anne Frank in school, and even after we stood in the very places Anne and her family stood, I'm not sure it really got through to him that her and her family only died because they were jews. That prior to going to hiding they weren't allowed to swim at the beach, go to school, visit friends or really do anything at all just because they were jews.
Seeing the rooms, staircases and the bookcase, which hid the entrance to their secret annex was incredibly surreal. After reading and hearing about Anne my entire life and then to actually stand in the place where they hid for over two years is very difficult to put into words.
Peeking out the window onto the street below. Knowing that on the rare occasion that Anne herself could look out that she looked out these same windows. She saw the same things we saw, people freely walking by, laughing, playing, boats on the canal, heard the nearby church bells, only unlike us, she couldn't leave.
The visit to the Anne Frank house is self guided, though Anne's words are written on the walls throughout. You'll walk through the office below the secret annex, the annex and have an opportunity to see Anne's diaries. There are many.
The video interviews of Otto Frank, her father, and other people who knew her are fascinating and really help bring her to life.
With the exception of a few items on display most of the rooms are empty. This is deliberate as Otto Frank specifically requested they be kept this way as a symbol of all the people who never came back.
Surprisingly, even after this moving and educational experience I could tell that it was hard for Simon to grasp when he saw during our visit. How could he? Thankfully, he's only known acceptance and tolerance. However, all the more reason why this visit was so important.
It was a very powerful place.
It was heartbreaking, but such an important place and I left feeling so grateful for the life I have.
It always makes history seem so much more real and emotional when you go to see it for yourself. It was fascinating when I went to visit, than you for the reminder.
Thank you for your thoughtful words. It's true and visiting places like here are so important in helping to keep history alive, even when it's easier to turn the other way.
This is a place that I am dying to visit. I am fascinated by every aspect of WWII history and I read and study it a lot- I guess I've kind of gotten used to those uncomfortable and contradictory feelings that you've so perfectly described. But despite those emotions, I think the overwhelming feeling I get when studying this tragic time in history is gratitude. Sounds strange, I know. But I'm grateful for the people who did what they had to do back then that allows me and my family to live in peace. And in Anne Frank's case, I'm grateful for the good people who risked their lives to help her and her family. Although it was a sad time, a feeling of hope and resilience was also present.
I too have studied this time in history extensively. I'm not sure I'll ever get used to those feelings. I know what you mean about feeling gratitude. I was grateful that I was able to stand there with no worries knowing that my life is a happy and free one! I only hope that continues to be the case.
This just shot me through the heart. Her optimism is astounding. How lucky our children have lived so removed from the hatred & ignorance she faced. I hope they are never faced with such atrocities.
The only real way to get in is to plan ahead and buy your tickets in advance, as the lines are always ridiculously long. I hope you get to go one day as it was a powerful and moving experience. I wish I could I've been to Amsterdam multiple times, but hopefully I'll be able to someday!
Thank you so much for your kind words. I too felt lucky for the opportunity to visit such an important place in history and to be able to bring my son there in the hopes of keeping history alive and to hopefully ensure it doesn't repeat itself.
I know, I couldn't believe it when I saw it.
I hope you're able to get tickets and I look forward to hearing about your experience.
Thank you so much for sharing this experience. I believe it`s important to read history and visit places like these, in order to never forget. We can`t allow history to repeat itself. I`m dying to visit the place and so much more, as I`m very fascinated by Anne`s story and life. Meanwhile, it does me good to read other people`s experiences.
Thank you for your kind words. I couldn't agree more!


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magazine Snap
by Alexandre Bel, Bernard
This time around, SNAP! Magazine's videogame columnist presents us with brief descriptions of the games he is most anticipating right now.
Design - Faded Glory
by Xavier Tolentino · illustrations: Ian Rogers
The faded ghost signs and vintage plastic ads that are dotted around Montreal help remind us of the aesthetics of different eras. They also hint at the spending habits of those who lived here before us.
Agent of chaos
by Ben Klein · illustrations: Cedric Taillon
I've been getting mixed receptions for saying this, but I think the new Batman movie 'The Dark Knight' is one of the best films ever. It's because of the Joker. I haven't stopped thinking about the Joker since I saw the movie. As a side note, let's acknowledge Heath Ledger's shattering performance; but recognize that his tragedy should not prevent us from throwing out the vulgar sentimentality about how he was killed by the role. We also need to realize that 'the Joker' is also in the character's lines and the direction. Even more it's the context of the whole film, and the compelling and bizarre history of the character itself. The Joker started out as a murderer and thief of brilliance in the 1940's and later became a hapless and goofy criminal. Then he seemed, at the time, to reach his apogee in Jack Nicholson's campy psycho 'Pop Art' portrayal.
The color ball
by Iliana Antonova · illustrations: Rafael Goldchain
The mercurial intelligence of Scott Lyall has settled once again, fortuitously, as the season's inaugural exhibition at the Power Plant in Toronto. His latest endeavor, suitably entitled 'The Color Ball' is a take on the Power Plant gallery's own yearly fundraising event, 'The Power Ball'; consequently the piece reflects the artist's views on the state of contemporary art institutions, using as a starting point and subject, the emergence of the fashionable contemporary art 'gala'.
Andy says
by Ben Klein
The Andy Warhol show at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is both eye and ear opening. The premise of the show 'Warhol Live: Music and Dance in Andy Warhol's Work', is that Warhol absorbed cutting edge ideas from the fields of music and dance, and spliced them into the sphere of visual arts. The outer limit of this view, carried to its logical conclusion is that it was the re-imagined implications of those contemporary disciplines that enabled him to revolutionize the art of his time (at least from the perspective of his most admiring critics).
A-Trak and Ratatat
by Alex Chinien · illustrations: Brendan Smith
Whatever issues you might have with the city of Montreal, whether they concern the municipal government, the police department, the cyclists, the drivers, the men, the women or even the children... put them far, far aside. Why? Because the sum of all these charming and not so charming elements is a city that does festivals like no other can. It should be no surprise then, that both of the shows that stood out the most to me this year happened during the week of the notorious Pop Montreal festival.
by Katie Kotler
The best show that I saw in 2008 was Signal, a New York-based Steve Reich tribute band. I know that this sounds lame because tribute bands usually suck. Maybe it was the circumstances of how I arrived at the show that made it better, because it's always when these things are unexpected that they seem better, or maybe it was a good show, perhaps even the best of 2008.
Filmy residue
by A.J. Little · illustrations: Natalie Reis
My evenings were always casual… like the bedroom lives of the polyamorous, they consisted mostly of movie-watching and cigarette smoke. For a time I fell in with a man whose particular peccadilloes made him hold my hand in platonic pederasty. Often we watched the same films ad nauseam. He would regale me with stories of old, stirring in me a futile longing for times I would never be a part of. Always speaking in mid-century aphorisms, denoting some specific truth... all liberally borrowed from the pictures we saw. I had a dense love for the world he came from. I wanted nothing more than to live in the past. 'The Last Picture Show' was one of the last films that we saw together.
Bubby Bling - Chic, affordable and practically unavoidable
by Katie Kotler · illustrations: Shayl Prisk
Recently when a friend recalled watching 'Betty Boop' cartoons at her Bubby's as a child, it hit me just how seminal a role grandmothers can have in the development of a girl's sense of style. To this day, Betty Boop's overt sexuality continues to influence my friend's attitudes towards femininity, sex and fashion, as do any other cartoon ladies with big boobs, lips and curvy legs. I on the other hand, still tend to veer toward patterns I saw my Romanian grandmother and her sisters wear at their peak in the sixties. On a trip to Eastern Europe a few years back, I returned with a second-hand mini polka dot dress and striped shirt that I knew, if Meta Singer were still alive, would make her proud.
Street Guide - Laurier
by Shayl Prisk · illustrations: Shayl Prisk
Up to this point, I think I can only recall three brief encounters with Laurier that I have had in the last five years. No, I am not one of you that call the Plateau home, and aside from when I was looking at a couch being sold through Craigslist and having a few short sojourns through the Mile-End, I had never explored it properly.
I'd rather be in Berlin...
by Marilis Cardinal · illustrations: Marilis Cardinal
By the time you get out of the airport and figure out which bus to take, get lost after a long conversation consisting only of sign language with a German family and then drag your highly overweight luggage up and down the metro stairs twice and then 10 blocks across the cobblestones to your hostel, stop at a corner store desperate for a cold bottle of water but accidentally end up with a lukewarm litre of fizzy sweet liquid, you'll feel pretty unsettled and confused.
Makin' Babies
by Lola Vertigo
When I was nineteen I bought a home pregnancy kit that I never used. My crazy Irish drug-dealer boyfriend had been in town for a visit a few weeks prior, and although my body was a little erratic at that stage, I was outside my normal unpredictable range. I bought the kit. I remember sitting in my room, staring at it. I had been told it is best to do these tests first thing in the morning, so I left it, carefully stowed away in the bathroom mirror. That night, to my great relief, I bled.
I kissed a girl and liked it
by Roberto Ciadella
Believe you me when I tell you I cringed while typing the title. Much as I revile songstress Katy Perry (her other song to receive any airplay is titled 'Ur so gay') no other piece of pop phenomena currently embodies the incongruities between today's liberal society and sexuality, especially when it comes to flexible sexuality.
The Mask Hamlet · berlin · venice · florence · philadelphia · inigo jones · masques
Sleek Digital ethics : who's watching ? · berlin · dior · sibylle · friedemann seith · tommy hilfiger
The Mask Isadora Duncan · architecture · berlin · ellen terry · coriolanus


Join us for a fun-filled day and start dancing!
On Sunday, March 31, La Luna, the experts in Salsa, will be hosting a complete crash course in Latin Dance where you will learn all of the basic steps and turns to the two most popular Latin dances today: Salsa & Bachata!
Only $99 per person includes 5 hours of dance instruction and a delicious lunch catered by Fall Manor Catering & Special Events.
Space is limited, so reserve your spot and register today!


But that would be unfair. There are people here doing amazing things, overcoming incredible obstacles, and much of that is because we're older and more mature. We've lived long enough to realize that only we can turn our ideas into reality, and it's up to us to solve the problems we encounter. Armed with the university's bountiful resources, the result is a constant barrage of the student-driven initiatives. You can't walk for five minutes around campus without noticing a poster for a new club or venture, and it's this willingness to take action that has impressed me most about U of T students.
My immediate challenge was deciding how I should split up my time among the diverse array activities going on. During my first month-and-a-half, I tread into unexplored territory, dabbling into origami, video-game design, and artificial intelligence, while also maintaining past interests such as tennis and biotechnology. Course-wise, I'm also in experimental phase, taking five courses in five different fields. I'm very happy with the freedom and support that I have, and I'm excited to build new skills and start new projects.
Still, it's a bit intimidating. With over sixty thousand undergraduates at U of T, I do feel a bit nostalgic for the close-knit community of high school. It's comforting to be part of smaller groups, and I'm especially proud to call myself a member of the Schulich Leaders Network.


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Organisers are calling on Glaswegians to enter any individuals who they think deserve the inaugural pleasure of lighting up Vinicombe Street.
Live choirs, a pop-up Christmas market and one big tree - it can mean only one thing. Byres Road is having a Christmas celebration!
Complete with festive frolics, spiced nuts, carols, gifts and crafts from local businesses and a BIG Christmas tree light switch on - and organisers are on the hunt for a local hero to turn on the lights.
As Christmas is about giving, Visit West End is getting into the festive spirit as they wish to award one Glaswegian the coveted status of Guardian of their Christmas Tree and turn on their sparkly lights, alongside a special celebrity guest.
Organisers are calling on Glaswegians to enter any deserving individuals who they think deserve the inaugural pleasure of lighting up Vinicombe Street.
Anyone can enter or be nominated - for example, perhaps you know a person who is unbelievably kind or caring, maybe they've fundraised, dedicate their life to helping others, or maybe they've just had a bad year, and this would brighten their spirits - all entries are welcomed.
A panel of judges will then choose one winner and you can enter up until November 21.
"For the first time ever, we will have a Christmas tree on Byres Road. We can't wait to find a deserving character to light up our tree and spread some festive sparkle around our incredible small businesses that you find up and down our street.
"Christmas is a celebration, and we're excited to showcase what you can find on your doorstep.
If you think you know the perfect person for the job, visit the Visit West End competition page , where you can nominate your individual.
Sunday, 27 November marks the start of a week-long promotions period for Byres Road, which leads up to the global Small Business Saturday (Saturday, 3rd December).
Their team of volunteers will be handing out free booklets at the Christmas event highlighting star gifts, experiences and offers for many of the West End shops, restaurants and services.
The celebrations begin at midday on Sunday, 27 November with a fantastic Christmas market featuring delicious food and hot drinks from The Hill, crafts from Janet & John, Shearer Candles and a Makers Market Pop Up Shop.
There will also be brilliant jewellery on show from The Nancy Smillie Shop, gifts and cookware from Papyrus, on trend fashions from Pink Poodle, baked goodies from Rawnchy Desserts and lots more.
To get you in the festive spirit, a live music showcase is planned from 2pm with local choirs and performers taking the stage. Voicebeat, GUMC Choir and GUMC Chamber Choir will dazzle with their choice of Christmas carols and songs. A list of performers and stage times will be posted closer to the event.
The celebration will finish with the Christmas tree lights being switched on at 6pm by the nominated Glasgow guardian and a special guest.
For more information, head to Visit West End's official website.


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Q: I just want to install a package! I spent a few hours trying to install a package and didn't succeed; it seems like that just happens sometimes in a Linux environment.
Background:
The package I want to install is available as 1) a .deb for x86 instead of x64, 2) a .Run, 3) source, and 4) an OSX installer. The OSX installer just works. On a fresh install of Debian 7, I have tried the .deb, the .Run, and compiling from source. All three led me through a series of hoops. The most basic problems appear to be that via any of these routes Debian 7 gave me too old a version of LibC and too old a version of Ocaml. Most of my time was spent executing one apt-get command after another trying to resolve dependencies.
Question:
What are some tools that make it easier to install packages by automating as much of the process as possible? All  packages, even building from source, make it clear which versions of which dependencies they require, right? So why can't all the dependencies just be resolved automatically?
I would be happy to even just make a directory on my system that contains a copy of every single dependency that my package requires so that it can run in its own little environment without modifying the versions of other packages on my system; I'm not sure if that's possible. I'm positive there must be SOME way to just say "give me the package called Foo, version 4.2.3" and have everything else done for me.

A: The experience is pretty much identical. Your problem is that Debian (stable) is not a cutting-edge distro, it is stable. This means that it will have older versions of packages in its repositories (it might be a good idea to mention the package name by the way). Your are comparing it to a new version of OSX which has newer versions of essential libraries like libc.
Installing .deb packages that have been packaged for the version of Debian that you are running is very easy and painless. Believe me, I used to have to install most things from source. When you run aptitude install foo.4.2.3.deb you are saying  "give me the package called Foo, version 4.2.3" and have everything else done for you. If it is not in the repos because you are using an old version, that is not the package manager's fault.
So, I would recommend posting a new question and asking how you can install the specific package you are attempting to get. Bear in mind, that if it requires a newer version of libc it is probably easier to upgrade your entire system to the testing or experimental repositories. While it is possible to only upgrade libc it is neither easy nor straightforward, see here.
Also, you should be aware that this is not a trivial problem. While dependencies are managed very well by package managers, they can conflict. Especially when working with something as basic as libc.
This command will print out a list of packages that depend on libc.
apt-cache rdepends libc6

On my Debian, that list contains 16056 different packages. If you upgrade libc because package foo depends on a newer version, how should the package manager deal with the fact that 16056 packages depend on the installed version? How can it know if they will also be compatible with the newer version?

A: I'd like to just chime in here and say that I think that your expectation is just wrong.
The solutions are targeting 2 completely different audiences. Apple tightly controls what software is available and it's a narrow sliver of applications.
I've helped more people that I care to admit that were using an OSX system where they wanted to install opensource project "X" and they were going through all the same types of hoops on OSX with the wrong version of Xcode, or they were using the official version of subversion, and needed to install a version from MacPorts or HomeBrew. There was literally no difference in fighting with the different libraries and dependencies until you could get this package "X" installed.
There is no magical tool that I've ever seen that will just let you put the dependencies in a directory and install application "X". It just doesn't exist and chances are never will. There have been a number of attempts to make dependency management and package management better and it's just a extremely complicated problem to solve.
Apt, Yum, etc. all do a decent job of it but the problem is they're attempting to solve an unbound problem, which is usually impossible. You can only get 80% types of solutions to it, or solutions that work for "most" of the cases.
It's as simple as that.

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Генриетта Видерберг (; 3 сентября 1796 — 3 апреля 1872) — шведская оперная певица (сопрано) и мемуаристка, член Королевской оперы.

Биография
Генриетта Видерберг родилась в семье актёра  и актрисы .

В 1807 г. Генриетта начала посещать Dramatens elevskola, став подопечной Софии Ловисы Гро и обучавшейся по французской театральной традиции, введённой Анн Мари Дегийон. В 1810—1817 гг. она выступала в театре  Djurgårdsteatern, а затем в передвижном театре , дававшем представления в Comediehuset в Гётеборге. Она получила хорошие отзывы и стала популярной певицей.

В 1817 г. состоялся дебют Генриетты в Королевской опере в роли Лауры в опере комик Léon ou Le Château de Monténéro Николя Далейрака. Её выступление имело успех, и когда оперная певица Жанет Весселиус оставила театр, то взяла её роли и стала примой шведской оперы в течение двух десятилетий.

Вначале Генриетта исполняла роли в лёгких опереттах, пока её партия Юлии в «Весталках» не подтвердила её возможность играть более серьёзные роли. Ей доверили роли Памины в «Волшебной флейте», донны Анны в «Доне Жуане», Сюзанны в «Свадьбе Фигаро» и др. В 1832 г. она сыграла партию Леоноры в шведской премьере оперы Бетховена «Фиделио». Её самой известной ролью была принцесса Амазали в Ferdinand Cortez Спонтини в 1826 г. В 1833 г. в роли Церлины в «опере Фра-Диаволо» Обера она стала первой шведской актрисой, участвовавшей в весьма спорной сцене раздевания. В 1837 г. её назначили придворной певицей. Её жалованье в 1600 риксдалеров соответствовало её значимости: минимальное жалованье певиц и актрис составляло 200 риксдалеров, и только один актёр-мужчина получал большее жалованье в 1800 риксдалеров.

После сезона 1836—1837 гг. Генриетту Видерберг отстранили от выступлений в Королевской опере: она всё чаще отказывалась играть роли, которые ей не нравились, или отменяла концерты. Такие поступки за ней водились и ранее, но в 1835 г. руководство оперы пошло на открытый конфликт. Хотя поклонники Генриетты и требовали её возвращения на сцену, руководство оперы не смогло договориться с актрисой. В итоге она несколько лет участвовала в представлениях в качестве приглашённой артистки до 1840 г. Последнее её выступление состоялось в июне 1840 г., после чего контракт с ней не продлили. Поиски работы в Германии успеха не имели.

В 1842—1844 г. Генриетта выступала в Mindre teatern так же блестяще, как ранее в Королевской опере, но её жизнь теперь осложнялась финансовыми проблемами и большими долгами, и в итоге ей пришлось жить со спивающимся братом Фредриком Видербергом и зарабатывать на жизнь продажей мыла. В 1850—1851 гг. она написала книгу мемуаров, став тем самым первой шведкой, чьи воспоминания были опубликованы при жизни. В 1859 гг. Королевская опера немного увеличила ей пенсию, но Генриетта Видерберг умерла в нищете.

Личная жизнь
Генриетта Видерберг замуж никогда не выходила, но была известна своими многочисленными любовными связями. Она была доброй, остроумной, не жадной, не высокомерной и не имела привычки распускать слухи. Среди её любовников числились британский дипломат Чарлз Мэннерс Сент-Джордж, граф Аксель Мауриц Пипер, шведский государственный деятель Магнус Браге, австрийский дипломат Эдуард фон Война, барон Клаес Ханс Роламб и Карл Мандерстрём. Генриетта стала матерью для двух сыновей и трёх дочерей, среди которых были Юлия Лидберг и Георгина Видерберг.

Примечания

Литература
 Nordensvan, Georg, Svensk teater och svenska skådespelare från Gustav III till våra dagar. Förra delen, 1772—1842, Bonnier, Stockholm, 1917
 Nordensvan, Georg, Svensk teater och svenska skådespelare från Gustav III till våra dagar. Andra delen, 1842—1918, Bonnier, Stockholm, 1918

Ссылки
 Henriette Sophie Widerberg
 http://runeberg.org/eurkonst/0640.html
 http://runeberg.org/biblblad/1925/0195.html
 http://runeberg.org/sbh/b0723.html
 http://runeberg.org/dialektl/0012.html

Оперные певцы и певицы Швеции
Мемуаристы Швеции
Сопрано Швеции

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An Auckland-bound jetliner came close to being hit by blazing pieces of a Russian satellite hurtling into New Zealand airspace.
Aviation authorities are investigating how flaming wreckage of the satellite thundered close to the Lan Chile Airlines Airbus A340 flying from Santiago, Chile, on Tuesday night.
The disintegrating satellite was so close to the aircraft that the pilot could hear the roar it made as it broke the sound barrier.
Hope there isn't another "planned crash" when I fly that part of the skies in a few days.


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Fluvoxamine may prevent serious illness in COVID-19 patients
In a preliminary study of COVID-19 patients with mild-to-moderate disease who were attempting to recover in their homes, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that the drug fluvoxamine seems to prevent some of the most serious complications of the illness and make hospitalization and the need for supplemental oxygen less likely.
The study, a collaboration between the university's Department of Psychiatry and Division of Infectious Diseases, involved 152 patients infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Researchers compared the outcomes of those treated with fluvoxamine to the outcomes of those given an inactive placebo. After 15 days, none of the 80 patients who had received the drug experienced serious clinical deterioration. Meanwhile, six of the 72 patients given placebo (8.3%) became seriously ill, with four requiring hospitalization.
The study is published online Nov. 12 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
"The patients who took fluvoxamine did not develop serious breathing difficulties or require hospitalization for problems with lung function," said the paper's first author, Eric J. Lenze, MD, the Wallace and Lucille Renard Professor of Psychiatry. "Most investigational treatments for COVID-19 have been aimed at the very sickest patients, but it's also important to find therapies that prevent patients from getting sick enough to require supplemental oxygen or to have to go to the hospital. Our study suggests fluvoxamine may help fill that niche."
Fluvoxamine is used commonly to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), social anxiety disorder and depression. It is in a class of drugs known as selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), but unlike other SSRIs, fluvoxamine interacts strongly with a protein called the sigma-1 receptor. That receptor also helps regulate the body's inflammatory response.
"There are several ways this drug might work to help COVID-19 patients, but we think it most likely may be interacting with the sigma-1 receptor to reduce the production of inflammatory molecules," said senior author Angela M Reiersen, MD, an associate professor of psychiatry. "Past research has demonstrated that fluvoxamine can reduce inflammation in animal models of sepsis, and it may be doing something similar in our patients."
Reiersen said the drug's effects on inflammation could prevent the immune system from mounting an overwhelming response, which is thought to occur in some COVID-19 patients who seem to improve after a few days of illness and then worsen. Many of those patients end up hospitalized, and some die.
In an innovative twist to research during the pandemic, the study was conducted remotely. When a symptomatic patient tested positive and enrolled in the study, research staff delivered the medication or inactive placebo to them, along with thermometers, automatic blood pressure monitors and fingertip oxygen sensors.
"Our goal is to help patients who are initially well enough to be at home and to prevent them from getting sick enough to be hospitalized," said Caline Mattar, MD, an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases. "What we've seen so far suggests that fluvoxamine may be an important tool in achieving that goal."
For two weeks, subjects took either the antidepressant drug or placebo sugar pills while having daily interactions with members of the research team -- via phone or computer. That allowed patients to report on their symptoms, oxygen levels and other vital signs. If patients suffered shortness of breath or were hospitalized for pneumonia, or their oxygen saturation levels fell below 92%, their conditions were considered to have deteriorated.
"The good news is that not a single person taking the active medication experienced deterioration," Reiersen said. "We believe this drug may be the reason, but we need to study more patients to make sure."
The researchers will begin a larger study in the next few weeks. Lenze, the director of the Healthy Mind Lab at the School of Medicine, is an expert in using mobile and internet technology to conduct clinical trials. He said that although this initial study involved patients in the St. Louis region, the next phase of the research will involve patients from throughout the country.
"We bring the study to the patients, giving them tools to monitor their health at home," Lenze said. "Our hope is that we can keep these patients healthy enough to avoid hospitalization."
Lenze EJ, Mattar C, Zorumski CF, Stevens A, Schweiger J, Nicol GE, Miller JP, Yang L, Yingling M, Avidan MS, Reiersen AM. Fluvoxamine vs. placebo and clinical deterioration in outpatients with symptomatic COVID 19: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA, Nov. 12, 2020.
This work was supported by the Taylor Family Institute for Innovative Psychiatric Research, the Bantly Foundation, the Center for Brain Research in Mood Disorders at Washington University and the COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund. Additional support from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Grant number UL1 TR002345.
Washington University School of Medicine's 1,500 faculty physicians also are the medical staff of Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children's hospitals. The School of Medicine is a leader in medical research, teaching and patient care, ranking among the top 10 medical schools in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Through its affiliations with Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children's hospitals, the School of Medicine is linked to BJC HealthCare.
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The Lancet Infectious Diseases: Experts warn of a surge in vector-borne diseases as humanitarian crisis in Venezuela worsens
The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Venezuela is accelerating the re-emergence of vector-borne diseases such as malaria, Chagas disease, dengue, and Zika virus, and threatens to jeopardize public health gains in the country over the past two decades, warn leading public health experts.
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Many Americans say infectious and emerging diseases in other countries will threaten the US
An overwhelming majority of Americans (95%) think infectious and emerging diseases facing other countries will pose a 'major' or 'minor' threat to the U.S. in the next few years, but more than half (61%) say they are confident the federal government can prevent a major infectious disease outbreak in the US, according to a new national public opinion survey commissioned by Research!America and the American Society for Microbiology.
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Tukukino was one of a handful of land activists of his generation.1 He was a rangatira of Ngāti Hako and Ngāti Tamatera and fiercely resisted the opening up of Ohinemuri for goldmining. It's hard to imagine what it might have felt like back in his time to have had a road cut through one's backyard and be forced to defend tangible and intangible aspects of one's Māori legacy, traditions and life pathways.
In this portrait of Tukukino he is wearing a puhoi or skin of a huia, minus the tail feathers in his ear as adornment. A beautiful, trusting and inquisitive bird, the huia was reputed to sing soft and clear flute-like songs. The twelve white-tipped tail feathers of the huia were prestigious trading items and a treasured possession.
New settlers also wanted huia plumes to wear in hatbands and they were eagerly collected by museums to stuff and send to Europe for display. Along with this demand, the introduction of stoats, cats and rats, resulted in the extinction of the huia. The last recorded sighting of the bird was in 1907.
'The Native Disturbance at Ohinemuri', Evening Post, vol XVIII, issue 71, 20 September 1879, p 2, Papers Past, accessed 2 March 2010.
why didnt taraia tukukino0 sign the treaty of waitangi.
What is the name of the club/spear that Taraia Ngakuti is holding?


Song Lyric Sunday – "Concrete Angel" – Being Lydia!
This week's theme is angels and while there are hundreds of applicable songs, one stood out to me immediately – "Concrete Angel" by Martina McBride.
Now, this is not your average angel song and it is by no means a happy one. It is about a girl who is beaten regularly by her mother and she holds in all the physical and emotional pain while the world turns a blind eye. The teacher notices that the girl wears the same clothes and isn't doing her work but doesn't get involved; either do the neighbors.
Why did I pick this song? Because it is the story of a lot of young girls and boys… including me (in some ways). I was never beaten by my parents – they were not violent people. I always had good clothes, good meals and did feel some form of love. However, I was beaten by words or even the lack of them. I always heard when I did wrong, but not very often when I needed building up or I did something good. I held it all in. I also held in all the bullying I received from peers.
Like the girl in the song I often wished I had never been born. But unlike her, my freedom didn't come from death, or at least not mine. After my mother passed away 23 years ago, I started to feel some of the stranglehold lift. It came back again when my Dad came to live with us but not as bad because I had already started to evolve into the stronger person I am today.
The strength I found was earned by allowing myself to go through many challenges in life. The reward is that I have had the honor of helping others, whether a little boy at camp missing his Mom and wanting to go home or a young woman just needing someone to listen and give her some positive affirmations.


WASHINGTON — Gyms in the District are already adapting to the so-called "yoga tax," and now the D.C. Council is considering a proposal that would require trainers be licensed by a board in the city.
The prospect of certification was among the issues bringing CrossFit gym owners together for a rally Friday afternoon.
Greg Glassman is the CEO and founder of CrossFit, a chain of gyms across the nation. The largest concentration of CrossFit gyms is in the District.
Glassman and gym owners spent the week meeting with members of Council over the proposal.
Andrew Killion is the owner at District CrossFit — the gym that hosted the event.
He says that the tax on fitness is dissuading possible members from working out in the District. Killion says the certification will further threaten the survival of his business.
"If we're looking at rising unhealthy populations in DC and in the country, I don't see how reducing the supply of gyms is going to help the long term success of the health of the country and DC," Killion says.
Glassman says D.C. would be the first jurisdiction in the nation to require such licensing standards. Killion says he doesn't need a piece of paper to prove that he knows.
"I don't think the regulation would make the trainers any better. It would just make it more expensive and more difficult to enter," Killion says.
Glassman says this is part of a larger national agenda pushed by sports medicine and soft drink groups threatening gyms like CrossFit.
"The most dangerous thing about CrossFit is not doing it," Glassman says.


Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi won a confidence vote on Wednesday called to force the Senate to push through a cost-cutting bill aimed at wiping out the country's provincial governments.
The upper house of parliament voted in favour of Renzi's latest attempt to cut out waste and revive the eurozone's third largest economy.
The premier, who came to power last month, had rushed the vote in an attempt to uphold a promise to the Italians to implement a series of fast-paced reforms.
The 39-year-old, whose centre-left and right coalition only boasts a small majority in the upper house, won comfortably with 160 senators voting in favour of the bill compared to 133 against.
Eliminating the provincial governments is "a question of reducing costs" which "should revive our fellow citizens' hope and trust" in Rome's ability to reverse the negative effects of a two-year recession, Renzi had said before the vote.
"Reducing political costs is a prerequisite for being able to hand back €80 to citizens," he said, referring to a promise that 10 million Italians would see their monthly pay packets boosted by that amount.
Renzi, who took power after engineering an internal party coup against former premier Enrico Letta, outlined a mini-stimulus package earlier this month involving €10 billion worth of tax cuts for the poorest families, €3.5 billion of investment in school buildings and a ten percent reduction in a payroll tax paid by employers.
He also pledged that the state will clear €68 billion worth of unpaid bills to private suppliers by the end of the summer.


For this weeks blogpost I will scroll through the IMDB Top 250 best movies of all time and take note of any movies that deal with birds. Here we go!
Well, that's it! Very short list. Three-and-a-half movies in the top 250 movies of all time are about birds. Since I was expecting this list to be longer, I will do a two-for-the-price-of-one list.
As a case study I will also look at the the IMDB Top 250 list for the opposite of birds.... fish. Hopefully this will show us if Hollywood has racism towards birds. Here we go!
SIDE NOTE - I probably would have thought Shutter Island (185) was about fish if I hadn't seen it.
Well, there you have it. Scientific evidence that Hollywood is racist against birds, there are one-and-a-half more great movies about the opposite of birds than there are great movies about birds.


The rebuilding of New Orleans will be in such high gear by 2008 that Ed Blakely, the city's recently appointed recovery czar, will leave the post after one year, he told an audience in Australia this week.
"When will I leave?" Blakely asked during a speech Wednesday at the University of Sydney. "I'll leave next year, because most of it will be done."
A spokeswoman for Mayor Ray Nagin, who appointed Blakely in December to head his new recovery office, confirmed that the world-renowned urban planner and disaster-recovery specialist signed a one-year agreement with City Hall.
"Of course we want to keep him here longer," spokeswoman Ceeon Quiett said Thursday. "Dr. Blakely has given some indications that he's going to be here as long as he needs to be to get through this recovery. ... I'm sure he will be here longer than (one year)."
During a Dec. 4 news conference at which Nagin announced his appointment, Blakely told reporters: "I'll finish when all of you think I'm finished."
But in describing Wednesday the $1.1 billion, 15-year public investment plan that he unveiled last week, Blakely said he expects to be out of New Orleans by next year. Though he recently moved to the Garden District, he maintains his faculty position at the University of Sydney; his wife lives at the couple's home in Australia.
In addressing the university crowd, Blakely also offered his most comprehensive public appraisal to date of New Orleans' plight, a saga he said he has watched since images of Hurricane Katrina's destruction flashed on TV screens worldwide. Since arriving here Jan. 8 for his new job, Blakely said, the recovery has gained momentum, though residents, still stunned from the botched disaster response, continue to distrust government at all levels.
"Defiance is still in the air -- that people want to do things on their own," he said. "And they don't trust the system that they elected, or they didn't elect but was in place."
Despite being on the other side of the world, Blakely managed to touch a few nerves this week. During the speech and a separate radio interview, he said he believed that the pre-Katrina population of 455,000 residents estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau was inflated.
During his speech, Blakely said that based on pre-storm vacancy rates and the historic flight of middle-class families to the suburbs, only about 400,000 people likely lived in New Orleans in August 2005. He said he thinks that about 235,000 citizens, plus 50,000 undocumented workers, live here now.
The first post-Katrina census survey, released last month, said 223,000 people lived in the city last July.
In a written statement, Blakely said Thursday that his comments about the pre-Katrina numbers were "totally incorrect."
"The statement came from listening to a panel on population numbers that I attended prior to my appointment," he said. "I now understand that I was citing a speculation and not facts. .$?.$?. I sincerely apologize for my error."
Blakely's apology, however, did not address the suggestion during his speech that city officials knew of the reduced population but kept mum so they would not lose federal grant dollars.
"Now one of the reasons that this number was important to New Orleans is because federal funds flow based on your population size. So New Orleans did not want to report that its population had already hit probably around 400,000, maybe 380,000 or so," he said, according to a recording of the speech posted on the Internet by the Sydney Ideas lecture series.
Having arrived on the scene almost a year-and-a-half after Katrina, Blakely spoke in detail Wednesday about the atmosphere of inertia that he encountered and the steps he has taken to jump start the recovery. He praised Nagin for leading early efforts to dewater the city and also pointed to the mayor's quick decision to restore essential infrastructure "to the entire city -- not just certain places -- the entire city."
"I don't think I would have done that, but he did," Blakely said. He did not say why he would have chosen a different course.
But Blakely said he believes the mayor hit a road block shortly after initial clean-up was completed.
"He had no idea where to start," Blakely said of Nagin. "He had not been given any advice that he could see that was useful. Now think about this: I came in at the 17th month. Seventeen months is a very long time not to know where to start or what to do."
By the time he got to New Orleans, Blakely said residents were at an impasse over which part of the community to restore first: levees, civic institutions or private housing.
"By the time I arrived, people were really waiting for any kind of leadership to declare anything" he said.
He also found a patchwork of residents who had returned home bursting with ambition but lacking support to rebuild their neighborhoods.
"Rather than being welcomed back they were sort of filtering back into their city with a feeling that they had been neglected and that no one was there to help them, and rebuilding their homes on their own, literally on their own with almost no government assistance at all," Blakely said.
To structure the recovery, Blakely selected zones -- about a half-mile in diameter -- to direct federal and local dollars in an effort to spur private investment that would spread across the city. The theory, he said, reversed the plan that City Hall initially established, in line with FEMA's reconstruction reimbursement process.
"What the city did was to spread its money out to all the buildings in the city, so they put a dollar everywhere hoping that money would come in in time to pay the bills and then they'd pay the next bill," Blakely said.
"A smarter strategy, I think, would have be to erect a few buildings and then go to the capital markets and borrow against them, and that's what we're doing now," he said. "But that was not the strategy, and nobody thought of it, believe it or not."
To finance his vision, Blakely looked to the New York financial markets, which pledged a half-billion dollars during trip a City Hall delegation took last year, he said. He also balanced the plan on federal dollars, some of which is far from certain.
In particular, Blakely said he will use $324 million in federal money that the state has set aside to cover a 10 percent local match on FEMA-financed projects. A waiver theoretically would prompt state officials to parcel out the cash to parishes that received the most storm damage. Congress has supported forgiving the local match in a pair of pending Iraq war spending bills that the White House has threatened to veto.
According to Blakely, that warning is not as tough as it may sound.
"The president of the United States says, 'We're not going to give you the $324 million,' but I don't think he's in charge anymore. We have people called Democrats, and (Speaker of the House) Nancy Pelosi was a good friend of mine," said Blakely, who helped Oakland, Calif. recover from an earthquake and devestating wildfires; Pelosi is from San Fransicso.
"And so I think the Democrats will keep passing that bill -- attaching it to the military spending bill, to the government operations bill, to every bill -- so I just put it in my budget and when the Office of the President says they're going to veto the bill, I understand that, and they should say that," he said. "But it's going to pass some place, so I might as well budget for it now."
Blakely said he also has $300 million to $400 million "up my sleeve," based on "creative financing that some of my New York colleagues have suggested."
In describing New Orleans to his Sydney audience, Blakely juxtaposed images of a ruined metropolis caked with slimy black muck with a vibrant city alive with music and poised for resurrection.
He also spoke of the fear and anger, expressed to him by the residents of some of the city's poorest areas, that continues to pervade a community still desperately seeking a reason to trust its government.
Without giving credence to the widely circulated conspiracy theory that New Orleans' levees were blown up, Blakely noted that the perception -- rooted in history -- that such an atrocity could happen fuels emotions that have a real impact on the recovery.
"There's this kind of feeling, particularly in the African-American community, that the levees were severed again to save the rich people who live up on the hill," he said. "So the suspicion and the hostility among these people is pretty deep. And the depth of that hostility is as deep as the water."
Despite that enmity, Blakely said the people of New Orleans have retained the core values that will sustain then through the recovery.
"There are three things people do in New Orleans, and the first one is politics," he said. "The second one is cook. And the third one is dance."


• The chapter has a new site, alabamapro.blogspot.com.
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Since we've been a chapter for a year, we get a vote in the national level elections this year.
Cost is $235 for members, $335 for non-members if you register by Sunday. Those interested in attending, carpooling or splitting hotel rooms — or just being added to the SPJ Alabama Pro mailing list — should contact her at alabamapro.spj[at]gmail.com.


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Woman runs over husband in Martinez before jumping from bridge
By Michael Bodley, San Francisco Chronicle
Updated 9:08 pm PST, Monday, November 7, 2016
A woman intentionally ran over her estranged husband and two other pedestrians crossing a Martinez street outside a family law courthouse Monday, then jumped from a nearby bridge, killing herself, police said.
The woman apparently waited outside the Peter Spinetta Family Law Center for her husband to leave, then accelerated her car toward him as he walked across the intersection of Court and Main Streets around 10:30 a.m., according to the Martinez Police Department.
She hit her ex-husband and two of his friends in the crosswalk, police said, pausing to throw her light blue car in reverse and striking one victim again before taking off.
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All three victims were hospitalized with "moderate" injuries, police said.
It was not immediately clear why the woman seemed intent on hurting her husband. Police would not comment on whether the couple had a hearing at the law center prior to the incident.
About 20 minutes after the hit-and-run, officials at the nearby Benicia Police Department received a report of a female who appeared to have jumped from the Benicia-Martinez Bridge.
Along with local law enforcement agencies, the U.S. Coast Guard and the California Highway Patrol responded to the scene and located the deceased female under the bridge.
Police found a blue vehicle near where she jumped that matched the description of the car seen fleeing the hit-and-run in Martinez, authorities said.
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BRIDGE11_0128_cs.jpg Event on 7/11/07 in Benicia.For The new Benicia-Martinez Bridge, looking south from the Benicia end is part of Interstate 680 and crosses the Carquinez Strait just west of Suisun Bay, linking Benicia with Martinez. It is being constructed east of the railroad bridge, completed in 1930 and the original 1962 automobile span. It will measure approximately 1.7 miles and carry five lanes of northbound traffic and is expected to be completed this year. Photographed July 11, 2007. Chris Stewart / The Chronicle Ran on: 07-12-2007 The new Benicia-Martinez Bridge on I-680, seen from the north, is set to open in late August -- seven years late. A small party is in the works. Ran on: 07-12-2007
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"Based on all indications, it appears the female who jumped from the bridge was also the driver of the vehicle who struck the pedestrians," police said in a statement.
The woman's name is being withheld pending a positive identification by the Contra Costa County Coroner's Office. The names of the victims were not released.
Michael Bodley is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: mbodley@sfchronicle.com. Twitter: @michael_bodley


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Wizards player calls gun incident 'a mistake'
Washington Wizards top scorer Gilbert Arenas says he was playing a joke when he pulled a gun in the locker room.
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Washington (CNN) -- Washington Wizards point guard Gilbert Arenas admits he drew guns in the team locker room in a highly publicized December 21 incident, but says he was only kidding around.
"I took the unloaded guns out in a misguided effort to play a joke on a teammate," Arenas said in a statement released Monday. "Contrary to some press accounts, I never threatened or assaulted anyone with the guns and never pointed them at anyone. Joke or not, I now recognize that what I did was a mistake and was wrong."
Citing NBA sources last month, the New York Post reported that Arenas and Javaris Crittenton both brandished firearms in the team's locker room.
Authorities continue to investigate the incident.
Crittenton's agent, Mark Bartelstein, told CNN Monday that his client "hasn't done anything wrong. I'm extremely confident he'll be exonerated."
Asked if Crittenton brought a gun into the Verizon Center that day, Bartelstein said, "I'm not going to get into details." He said Crittenton has not met with authorities, nor has such a meeting been requested or scheduled.
Arenas, a three-time NBA All-Star, spent Monday afternoon in a voluntary meeting with federal prosecutors at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington and with D.C. metropolitan police about the incident, according to his attorney, Kenneth L. Wainstein.
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"From the outset of this incident, Mr. Arenas has been fully cooperative with the investigation," Wainstein said in a statement, noting that Arenas relinquished the guns to Wizards security officers and met with authorities to "tell the full story."
"Over the course of a two-hour interview this afternoon, Mr. Arenas answered every question asked of him," Wainstein said in Monday's statement.
A spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office declined to comment on Arenas' statement, citing the ongoing investigation. Arenas said he told authorities that he stored four unloaded guns in his locker the Verizon Center to keep them away from his children.
Arenas said he told authorities that he stored four unloaded guns in his locker the Verizon Center to keep them away from his children.
"I brought them without any ammunition into the District of Columbia, mistakenly believing that the recent change in the DC gun laws allowed a person to store unloaded guns in the District," he said in the statement.
He offered a public apology to the league, his teammates and his fans, saying, "I promise to do better in the future."
NBA spokesman Tim Frank declined to comment on Arenas' comments, deferring to an earlier statement: "There is an active investigation by DC law enforcement authorities, which we are monitoring closely. We are not taking any independent action at this time."
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Solvent-based acrylic sealers are a type of widely-used sealer on concrete driveways, paths and pool-surrounds to protect and increase the surface and color of the concrete. This type of sealer contains a higher level of VOCs than water-based acrylic sealers. It can act as a protective top coat for concrete. It can also be used to improve the aesthetics. It provides chemical and stain resistance to concrete.
Solvent-based acrylic sealer is ideal for surfaces that are frequently affected by high wear because of its chemical and abrasion resistance.
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Acrylic sealers come in two types: solvent-based (normally high VOC) and water-based (contains low VOC). The sealers are used after curing concrete. Acrylic sealers have the capability to protect the concrete from wear and tear. This sealer is also resistant to gasoline and oil from automobiles. It could also protect concrete from yard fertilizers and rock salt.
In a solvent-based sealer, both the polymer and solvent form a continuous, clear polymer solution. The polymer chains become closer and eventually entangle after the evaporation of solvent from this solution. Since the polymer remains on the surface of concrete, it makes the concrete surface glossier.
Solvent-based sealers are more suitable for exterior surfaces and less suitable for interior surfaces to form a thin, protective film. This film offers good protection against water and chloride intrusion, and allows escaping moisture to remain in the slab. These sealers are non-yellowing and UV-resistant, and found in a wide range of sheen levels. Solvent-based acrylics outperform water-based products for outdoor use and the enhancement of color.
Solvent-based acrylic sealer contains more VOCs than other sealers; therefore, it is less environmentally friendly and more of an environmental concern. It also produces a stronger odor, which causes environmental pollution, and is not recommended for indoor applications. Considering these factors, solvent-based acrylic sealers are not a good choice for use in low-ventilation spaces.
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Opposite you, the Hermitage hill represents more than 2000 years of history. The Cave de Tain was founded by Louis Gambert de Loche in 1933. Four years later, these slopes gained Appellation d'Origine Controlée status and then, gradually, international fame. Thus, for nearly 80 years, the history of the Cave de Tain and the Hermitage appellation have been closely related. The Cave plays a major role in the appellation (one bottle out of four of Hermitage comes from the Cave), thanks to its growers and its own wine estate in the appellation.