With the end of 2018 fast approaching, and the promise of huge amounts of food and a warm fire to come, it's time to wrap up and give out a different kind of end-of-year award. These ones go out to the games that are a bit different, in some cases games that aren't even particularly good, but all of them are the kind of thing that can get a little lost when everyone's rushing to praise the best and brightest.
Something didn't quite land about Far Cry 5. It had all the elements you'd expect, and perhaps that was the problem. The way the game was trailed promised a look at the dark American underbelly of cults and evangelicals, the kind of folk who are either ranting about gays or picketing abortion clinics in the name of Jeebus. In the Trump era it felt like a subject ripe for exploration, but the game in this regard proved a real disappointment.
Apart, that is, from the Hope County Choir, a fictional concept overlaying the work of composer Dan Romer. Far Cry 5's soundtrack is absolutely outstanding because it uses music in the same manner as religions do: to propagate the cult's message, spread myth, and make people feel fantastic about it at the same time. Just listen to 'Oh John', a track extolling the virtues of the game's cult leader, and you'll hear how completely this artist mastered the brief.
This soundtrack deserved a game that understood these themes equally deeply. It wasn't to be, but this OST remains one of the year's real highlights. Oh, and driving over people while listening to it is pretty great too.
The Mario Party series of video games, which mix board game elements and mini games to create a chaotic party experience, have always been a mix of playful fun and playful anger, cheering along as things go well and cursing the computer's randomised rolls for helping or hindering your chances. However, Super Mario Party on Switch went out of its way to be unrelentingly friendly.
Every time you win a mini game with another player, give them a little high five to congratulate them. Every time you land on an Ally space, make friends with a new character who rolls dice to help you. Share your items with your co-op partner, roll dice together and share your end results, everything about this game was just screaming smiles and friendship.
It's still annoying when an AI player throws a mini game you should have won, or you get a bunch of low rolls in a row. But it's hard to stay mad when every character seems like they're such good friends, and having such a lovely time together.
During the course of 2018, we here at Kotaku UK especially loved Minit, a Zelda-style top down adventure game with a twist.
The idea of Minit is that, after touching a cursed sword, the player is doomed to die every sixty seconds, respawning back in bed. You have to complete an adventure in these tiny time increments, working out how to use that time to achieve just one bit of permanent progression to help your next run.
The game is incredibly well designed, in a way where shortcuts, progression items, and secrets piled on secrets help you do more and more with your time, until you're eventually beating the final boss from within a minute's run from a comfy bed.
Minit is pretty short, with speedrunners getting playthroughs down to around 25 minutes, but on a first playthrough it'll offer a solid few hours of exploration. It's a game that makes a lot of smart choices with a relatively small amount of content, and is constantly pushing the player to work out how on earth they're expected to do things so quickly.
Lucas Pope's exceptional sleuth-em-up Return of the Obra Dinn has an original and innovative core mechanic, an absolutely gorgeous art style, and has been assembled in such a manner that it can only be called a work of art. You've simply never played a mystery game like it.
But... jeez Lucas, give us normal-brained folk a bit of a break sometimes yeah? This game had us using notebooks, constantly revisiting old death scenes, and eventually just getting more and more confused as our piddly little minds struggled to comprehend its magnificence. What a game (here's our spoiler-free review) but, wow, you need a stiff drink and a lie down after a few hours in this.
Sorry Rare! It's simple really: Sea of Thieves is a tonne of fun when you've got a jolly crew together, and something to do. It's not really the game's fault if you don't always have the former around, but the latter remains a problem. Sea of Thieves felt sparse at launch and, despite strong post-launch support, is still lacking in things to do. So even when you gather a crew now, they're all moaning about having to do the same stuff. Yes I know you've killed a thousand skeletons mate, but shut up and man the cannon.
It's so good when things actually come off and the game delivers the kind of experience you know it can; it's sad that, more often than not, it's not quite as fun as you're hoping. That's why it's the best worst game on the high seas.
Released back in September, the Xbox Adaptive Controller was Microsoft's attempt, working with charity Special Effect, to craft a modular controller that could be mass produced, and affordably allow Xbox One and PC gamers to pick up the pieces needed to create controllers which work better for them. It might be bigger A and B buttons, a button you can press with your chin, a nunchuck style analogue stick you can hold separately from the rest of your controller, foot pedals, or any host of other available parts that help make custom gaming setups more readily available.
While there have been some small teething issues with the device, overwhelmingly we found gamers were incredibly pleased with the device. The Xbox Adaptive Controller is a major step forwards for gaming accessibility, and one that heralds a more inclusive future for the industry as a whole.
Forget all the other crap about Fallout 76. Lowering the quality of bags that you've already sold to people? Even Scrooge himself would have thought twice about that one.
Look, I consider myself a pretty big Nintendo game fan, but I've been playing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and I have no clue who like half of these spirit characters I come across even are. Like, I might recognise them vaguely, but these characters are some deep cuts I couldn't even begin to guess anything about the lore or plot importance of.
I know about the existence of Cupid as a character in fiction, but what the heck is this Sennen Kazoku game the winged love angel was apparently a part of? There's a dog called Inuji Darumeshi, and he owns a sports shop? Wait, that's not a Minecraft pig, it's from a Gamecube game called Cubivore?
While I love the level of fanservice in Smash, I can't deny half the time I have no idea what the reference I am seeing is meant to be. There''s just a lot of this game flying right over my head.
Normally, when it comes to video game related injuries, I tend to think about thrown or miss swung motion controllers. 2017 for me was a year defined by injuries sustained while flailing around in VR. But, in 2018, the biggest injury i received gaming was caused by a box of cardboard.
Yes, I got injured by Nintendo Labo. How? Well I made it to age 27 without learning this, but turns out you can get a cardboard cut the same way you can get a paper cut, and they bleed like heck.
I didn't do this while making my own bootleg Labo kits, before you ask, but using the official parts.
Thankfully I didn't blood soak my cardboard too badly, but dang this can cause some injuries if not carefully handled. Of all the platform holders, I never expected it would be Nintendo that wounded me.
We're not saying Soul Calibur VI has the best and most in-depth character creation tool we saw this year... but it certainly has something going on. The game can produce a pretty good looking approximation of Mercy on the one extreme, while at the other we're dealing with truly nightmare versions of Sonic the Hedgehog or Marge Simpson. Trust us, some of these have to be seen to be believed.


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Q: Call Stored Procedure within Create Trigger in SQL Server I have a stored procedure named insert2Newsletter with parameters
(@sex nvarchar(10),
@f_name nvarchar(50),
@l_name nvarchar(70),
@email nvarchar(75),
@ip_address nvarchar(50),
@hotelID int,
@maArt nchar(2))

I want call this stored procedure in an insert trigger. How do I retrieve the corresponding fields from inserted and how do i call insert2Newsletter within the trigger?
I tried without success:
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
CREATE TRIGGER RA2Newsletter
   ON  [dbo].[Reiseagent]
   AFTER INSERT
AS
DECLARE @rAgent_Name nvarchar(50),
DECLARE @rAgent_Email nvarchar(50),
DECLARE @rAgent_IP nvarchar(50),
DECLARE @hotelID int

BEGIN
    SET NOCOUNT ON;

    -- Insert statements for trigger here
    Select @rAgent_Name=rAgent_Name, @rAgent_Email=rAgent_Email, @rAgent_IP=rAgent_IP, @hotelID=hotelID  From Inserted
    EXEC insert2Newsletter '','',@rAgent_Name,@rAgent_Email,rAgent_IP,@hotelID,'RA'

END
GO

thx a lot for your feedback... greetings...

A: The following should do the trick -  Only SqlServer

Alter TRIGGER Catagory_Master_Date_update ON Catagory_Master AFTER delete,Update
AS
BEGIN

SET NOCOUNT ON;

Declare @id int
DECLARE @cDate as DateTime
    set @cDate =(select Getdate())

select @id=deleted.Catagory_id from deleted
print @cDate

execute dbo.psp_Update_Category @id

END

Alter PROCEDURE dbo.psp_Update_Category
@id int
AS
BEGIN

DECLARE @cDate as DateTime
    set @cDate =(select Getdate())
    --Update Catagory_Master Set Modify_date=''+@cDate+'' Where Catagory_ID=@id   --@UserID
    Insert into Catagory_Master (Catagory_id,Catagory_Name) values(12,'Testing11')
END

A: I think you will have to loop over the "inserted" table, which contains all rows that were updated.  You can use a WHERE loop, or a WITH statement if your primary key is a GUID.  This is the simpler (for me) to write, so here is my example.  We use this approach, so I know for a fact it works fine.
ALTER TRIGGER [dbo].[RA2Newsletter] ON [dbo].[Reiseagent]
    AFTER INSERT
AS
        -- This is your primary key.  I assume INT, but initialize
        -- to minimum value for the type you are using.
        DECLARE @rAgent_ID INT = 0

        -- Looping variable.
        DECLARE @i INT = 0

        -- Count of rows affected for looping over
        DECLARE @count INT

        -- These are your old variables.
        DECLARE @rAgent_Name NVARCHAR(50)
        DECLARE @rAgent_Email NVARCHAR(50)
        DECLARE @rAgent_IP NVARCHAR(50)
        DECLARE @hotelID INT
        DECLARE @retval INT

    BEGIN
        SET NOCOUNT ON ;

        -- Get count of affected rows
        SELECT  @Count = Count(rAgent_ID)
        FROM    inserted

        -- Loop over rows affected
        WHILE @i < @count
            BEGIN
                -- Get the next rAgent_ID
                SELECT TOP 1
                        @rAgent_ID = rAgent_ID
                FROM    inserted
                WHERE   rAgent_ID > @rAgent_ID
                ORDER BY rAgent_ID ASC

                -- Populate values for the current row
                SELECT  @rAgent_Name = rAgent_Name,
                        @rAgent_Email = rAgent_Email,
                        @rAgent_IP = rAgent_IP,
                        @hotelID = hotelID
                FROM    Inserted
                WHERE   rAgent_ID = @rAgent_ID

                -- Run your stored procedure
                EXEC insert2Newsletter '', '', @rAgent_Name, @rAgent_Email,
                    @rAgent_IP, @hotelID, 'RA', @retval

                -- Set up next iteration
                SET @i = @i + 1
            END
    END
GO

I sure hope this helps you out.  Cheers!

A: Finally ...
set ANSI_NULLS ON
set QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON

GO
ALTER TRIGGER [dbo].[RA2Newsletter]
   ON  [dbo].[Reiseagent]
   AFTER INSERT
 AS
    declare
    @rAgent_Name nvarchar(50),
    @rAgent_Email nvarchar(50),
    @rAgent_IP nvarchar(50),
    @hotelID int,
    @retval int

BEGIN
    SET NOCOUNT ON;

    -- Insert statements for trigger here
    Select
        @rAgent_Name = rAgent_Name,
        @rAgent_Email = rAgent_Email,
        @rAgent_IP = rAgent_IP,
        @hotelID = hotelID
    From Inserted

    EXEC insert2Newsletter
        '',
        '',
        @rAgent_Name,
        @rAgent_Email,
        @rAgent_IP,
        @hotelID,
        'RA',
        @retval
END

A: You pass an undefined rAgent_IP parameter in EXEC instead of the local variable @rAgent_IP.
Still, this trigger will fail if you perform a multi-record INSERT statement.

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Africa: Contradictions between Regional Security and Imperialist Interventions
Assessing the 31st Ordinary African Union Summit in Mauritania
By Abayomi Azikiwe
Global Research, July 18, 2018
Region: sub-Saharan Africa
Theme: History, Poverty & Social Inequality
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Featured image: French President Emmanual Macron meets with African leaders at AU summit in Mauritania, July 2, 2018
On July 1-2, 2018, the 31st Ordinary Summit of the African Union (AU) was held in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott under the theme of "Winning the Fight against Corruption: A Sustainable Path to Africa's Transformation."
This gathering took place amid the burgeoning challenges facing the African continent involving the efforts to realize a meaningful peace process in the Republic of South Sudan, an ongoing independence movement to liberate the Western Sahara from Moroccan occupation, gender equality and end to violence against women, the recently-announced African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and the role of imperialism as it relates to the question of national and regional security.
An Elusive Peace in South Sudan
Several days prior to the convening of the AU Summit, a peace agreement was signed in Khartoum, Republic of Sudan, bringing together President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Reik Machar. For over three years, the government and ruling party, Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in Juba, has been split leading to the declaration of the SPLM in Opposition (SPLM-IO) headed by Machar.
Under the June 23 deal which was designed to go into effect on June 27, Machar is to be reinstated as Vice President of South Sudan. Nonetheless, just hours after the ceasefire was scheduled to begin there were reports of violations from both the SPLM and the SPLM (I-O).
During the week of July 16 the United Nations Security Council imposed an arms embargo against Juba. Nonetheless, neighboring head-of-state President Yoweri Museveni has called for the lifting of sanctions by European states on South Sudan. Museveni made this statement while he met with a visiting official delegation from Britain which included the Minister of State for the Armed Forces Mark Lancaster.
Despite these promising developments, other opposition groups within South Sudan have complained of not being consulted by the two main tendencies, SPLM and SPLM (I-O). The South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) has stated that it is awaiting the governance agreement that was scheduled to go into effect on July 17. Meanwhile the SPLM Leaders Former Political Detainees (SPLM—FPD) is calling for greater AU involvement in the discussions expressing distrust over what they claim to be the lack of transparency in the process being primarily led by the East African Inter-regional Authority on Development (IGAD).
Western Sahara: The Quest for National Independence
A major anti-colonial struggle being waged by the Polisario Front and the Sahwari Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), which is recognized by the AU, has become a more complicated situation in light of the readmission of the Kingdom of Morocco in 2017. Morocco had remained outside the former Organization of African Unity (OAU) and the AU for more than three decades due to its support for the liberation of the people in this former Spanish colony which has been occupied for over 40 years by the neighboring monarchy.
According to a report on the AU Summit in Mauritania published by the Journal of Cameroon, it says:
"The African Union has renewed its resolve to seek more engagement with the United Nations to resolve the unresolved question of the Western Sahara, a territory under Moroccan control. In a communiqué at the end of the 31st AU Heads of State Summit in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott on Monday, the 54-member continental body said its members have agreed to support ongoing efforts led by the UN to broker a lasting and mutually agreeable solution to the decades-old crisis."
This same article continues in regard to the AU position noting the regional body is:
"encouraging parties to the crisis to demonstrate flexibility and resume talks without preconditions as the only way to addressing the protracted controversy surrounding the destiny of the enclave, which straddles Morocco in the north and Mauritania in the south. Emerging from several hours of talks on the issue, AU leaders agreed that the UN's role will be crucial drawing up the details that would form the basis of a durable compromise between the protagonists to the conflict, which is one of Africa's forgotten crises."
Gender Equality and the AU
A joint session of the preliminary meetings of the 31st Ordinary summit was held on June 30 between current AU Chairperson President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and European Union (EU) Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development Neven Mimica of Croatia. Kagame, who heads the Central and East African state with the largest representation of women within the parliamentary system than any other country in the world, noted that women can contribute far more to society when they are empowered.
During the "Women in Power" symposium the Rwandan leader said:
"Women can deliver more when they are enjoying their full rights. But with men and women working together using their talents to the maximum the effect is not just additive, it multiplies. All of society benefits. The sum is indeed much greater than the parts."
Kagame continued by emphasizing:
"Despite the goodwill, substantial problems remain in the way of women's whether cultural, legal and economic empowerment. There are important policy changes to advocate for and that will always be important and must continue to be a priority as will be discussed today."
Nonetheless, the burning question today related to AU-EU relations center around the so-called "migration crisis." Millions of Africans are fleeing the continuing imperialist war in Libya and other regions of the continent attempting to travel across the Mediterranean into southern, eastern and central Europe. African women are adversely impacted by this dislocation and displacement through violence, human trafficking and deaths.
Thousands have died annually since 2014 while the influx of large numbers of Africans and Asians in the European states has pushed to the fore right-wing, neo-fascist elements some of whom have increased their presence in parliamentary bodies as well as becoming ruling parties in the governments of Hungary and Italy. In response to this phenomenon of the backlash against migration from the Global South, EU leaders are advancing programs designed to encourage people to either remain in Africa or be repatriated.
Such projects are inherently flawed since they do not address the underlying historical exploitation and national oppression through colonialism and neo-colonialism. Africa remains dependent upon European and North American capitalist regimes where terms of trade, commodity prices and military policy leave the continent at an extreme disadvantage.
Economic turmoil prompted by the destruction of the Libyan state in 2011, the proliferation of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), the undermining of the international energy and strategic minerals markets and the refusal of the imperialists to open up the United Nations Security Council to permanent status for AU governments, illustrates the glaring dubious character of EU foreign policy. Despite the platitudes of EU leaders, their statements ring hollow when the overall character of relations is objectively assessed.
Free Trade and Regional Security: The Irreconcilable Contradictions
As leader of the AU, Rwandan President Kagame has motivated the adoption and ratification of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). More AU states are signing the AfCFTA and taking the initiative to their legislatures for implementation.
The economic plan would theoretically combine a $US3 trillion in gross domestic product (GDP) constituting the sum total of goods and services within the AU. The program is designed to eliminate tariffs in inter-African trade facilitating the uninhibited movement of resources across the continent.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the agreement in Mauritania during the summit while encouraging his counterpart in the West African state of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari, to follow suit. Buhari's hesitation it is said derives from the trepidation among Nigerian industry fearing an undermining of their financial status both domestically and internationally. Nigeria and South Africa have the two largest economies within the AU and any effective free trade area requires their full participation.
Ironically the AU summit was visited by French President Emmanuel Macron who spoke to the members of the G5 Sahel Regional Force nations including Mauritania, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso and Chad. These former colonies of Paris came together in 2014 under the guise of fighting terrorism carried out by Islamist rebels across these states.
G5 Sahel Regional Force map
Attacks on a French military installation in Mali at Sevare along with two other locations, and in southeast Niger, resulting in the deaths of 10 soldiers, highlighted the precarious security situation leading up to the Mauritania AU summit. France admits to having at least 4,500 troops in the Sahel region ostensibly to enhance security.
What are often not discussed are the interests of France and the U.S. within these West African nations. Both AFRICOM and French military forces are escalating their occupations creating further uncertainty among the civilian populations. The British government of Teresa May is also entering the fray assisting French and U.S. forces with surveillance drones and helicopters.
However, the military interventions of Paris, London and Washington are not acts of charity by any means. These policies reflect the degree of underdevelopment in post-colonial Africa. The imperialists are in the region to secure the natural resources including uranium and oil.
The pretext of fighting Islamists cannot be taken at face value in that these same elements were deployed by the EU member-states and Washington in Libya during the overthrow of the government of former leader the late Col. Muammar Gaddafi. Syria has been a focus of destabilization utilizing certain Islamist groups that are armed and trained by western governments.
A free trade zone in order for it to reach its full potential must be secured by the African governments themselves. It would not be rationale for the AU member-states to rely on the imperialist governments to supply them with security assistance without continuing their neo-colonial policies which are the antithesis of genuine economic development and regional sovereignty.
Undoubtedly the ruling classes of Western Europe and North America understand this dilemma quite well. African states should know that the economic renaissance of the continent cannot reach its fruition at the behest of the same imperialist nations which continue to benefit from their systematic underdevelopment and dependency.
Consequently, until the AU makes the decisive turn inward breaking its subservient ties to imperialism there will be the inevitable instability and impoverishment. Any military program aimed at sustainable security requires the formation of an All-African military force which bans the construction of bases, drone stations and open monitoring of its territories by the Pentagon and NATO forces.
Abayomi Azikiwe is the editor of Pan-African News Wire. He is a frequent contributor to Global Research.
All images in this article are from the author.
Copyright © Abayomi Azikiwe, Global Research, 2018
Articles by: Abayomi Azikiwe

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It's an improbable friendship. Edgar Gonzales is a World Vision employee and former sponsored child. Fred Penner is a name many Canadians will recognize for his decades on the music scene, and especially as a beloved CBC children's entertainer.
"Who is this strange bearded man?" jokes Penner.
"I had never heard of the show until then!" says Gonzales laughing, referring to Penner's cult-favourite kids' show, Fred Penner's Place. Gonzales immigrated to Canada 20 years ago, after Fred Penner's Place was already off the air.
Gonzales and Penner are speaking about the moment when Penner introduced Gonzales to his song, "Somebody Believes". The music video for the song, featuring Penner and friends, along with moving shots from World Vision programs, recently launched in Canada.
It all started with happenstance. Gonzales happened to be pulled into a meeting of World Vision Ambassadors that Penner was attending. "Everyone was eating pizza, and I was telling my story," Gonzales says.
"My philosophy is: never underestimate your ability to make a difference in the life of a child. I carry that with me through my music," he says.
Fred and Edgar are part of a world-changing movement that knows no boundaries. Join the movement by sponsoring a child, and changing their life for the better.


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Goya's Ghosts Milos Forman
Spanish painter Francisco Goya was one of the most remarkable figures of his era. A key painter in bridging classical and modern art, Goya's life and art was a myriad of complex contradictions. On the one hand, here was a man appointed by King Carlos IV in 1799 as royal court painter. A man who procured numerous portrait commissions from members of the Spanish elite throughout his lifetime. On the other hand, Goya's work was capable of being openly subversive and satirical towards powerful institutions such as the Catholic Church.
Initially beginning his profession via religious artwork, Goya was soon producing works deemed heretical and obscene by the Church for their anti-clerical undertones and nude imagery. A prime example was Goya's controversial series of etchings known as Los Caprichos. Experimental and nightmarish in their tone, these dark, acidic aquatints were created during his tenure as court painter. Only Goya's friendship with the Spanish royal court spared him from the late 18th century revival of the Spanish Inquisition.
Rendered deaf after contracting cholera, Goya's works became increasingly more aesthetically bleak and terrifying. One only needs to contrast Goya's refined court pieces like The Family of Charles IV (1800) with his later "Black Paintings" such as Saturn Devouring His Son (1819-23) to see Goya's evolution into a beleaguered and tortured individual. Seemingly any facet of Goya's turbulent life would make fascinating film material. Therefore, it is incredibly surprising to note that Milos Forman's 2006 film Goya's Ghosts features barely any factual elements from the famed Aragonese painter's life, but rather uses Goya and his times as a vehicle for a flawed metaphorical picture about the misappropriation of power in the 21st century.
Co-scripted by longtime Luis Buñuel collaborator Jean-Claude Carrière, Goya's Ghosts is the first film from acclaimed Czech director Milos Forman since 1999's Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon. Forman is no stranger to cinematic biographies. With the exception of 1989's Valmont, virtually of all his last five pictures (Amadeus, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Man On The Moon) belong to that cinematic genre. Yet, one would be hard-pressed to classify Goya's Ghosts as a biopic. After all, there is not much biography in a film treating Francisco Goya more as a historical pursuer than a historical painter.
If anything, this fictionalized historical melodrama is a lushly uneven game of "cat and mouse" between Goya (Stellan Skarsgard) and an ambitious priest Brother Lorenzo (Javier Bardem). Goya's Ghosts also stars Natalie Portman as Inés, a woman whom Goya frequently employed as a model in his paintings, including frescos for Catholic Churches. The film begins with a group of clerics, including Brother Lorenzo, meeting to discuss how to deal with Goya and other seditious Enlightenment threats.
Noting Goya's political allies, Lorenzo rejects calls for Goya to be individually punished. Instead Lorenzo rallies for the widespread re-institution of the fabled Spanish Inquisition. The Inquisition's first target is Inés, who is accused of secretly practicing the forbidden Jewish faith after being spotted refusing pork at a local tavern. Unbeknownst to Brother Lorenzo, Inés is both the daughter of a wealthy Catholic merchant and an individual who simply dislikes the taste of pork. Despite her status as a practicing Catholic, Inés confesses to the Inquisition's false claim after being "put to the Question."
In reality, "the Question" is merely a pleasant euphemism for archaic torture. According to Brother Lorenzo, those "put to the Question" would receive strength from God to only tell the truth. So when Inés fails to return from her visit to the Holy Office, her wealthy father Tomas (Jose Luis Gomez) asks Goya to cordially invite Brother Lorenzo to Tomas' estate to beg for his daughter's release. Almost immediately, the ensuing dinner morphs into a farcical ruse. Over wine, Lorenzo is "put to the Question" by Inés' family, who insist that under duress one will confess to anything. After proving Tomas right, Brother Lorenzo is
forced to sign a bogus confession, before absconding to Revolutionary France; where he recants his religious beliefs and returns to Spain fifteen years later as equally a fervent Bonapartist, as he was an Inquisitor.
And that's just Goya's Ghosts' first third. The less said about the latter two-thirds of Goya's Ghosts the better; as the film descends from an allegorical inquiry into present-day political ethics to a potholed early 19th century paternity melodrama. Featuring scenes of approved torture, opportunistic religious leaders and a foreign army arriving to "liberate" Spain from tyranny, it is clear Forman and Carrière are trying to draw parallels between early 19th century Europe and contemporary post-9/11 politics.
Certainly, there is ample actual historical material to work with here. Not including the plenitude of fictitious relationships, events, characters and coincidental circumstances drawn up by Forman and Carrière in their script. Yet, Forman's application throughout Goya's Ghosts is uniformly sloppy. Goya becomes an inactive observer; sketching the events surrounding him, but not really commenting upon them: an ironic stance given Goya's real-life position as a social critic and commentator through his art.
By the film's melodramatic turn in its latter stages, much of the topical political commentary developed early on in Goya's Ghosts is cast adrift. In general, art and its political traits are ignored in Goya's Ghosts. Aside from an engaging title sequence compiled from Goya's 1899 etchings, the political meditations infused within Goya's increasingly visually horrific art are curiously absent, especially in a film concerning a renowned painter. Skarsgard's aloof and affable Goya becomes a mere apolitical bystander, a figure detached from his own real-life history. The one-dimensional, fictitious "ghosts" of the film's title are equally disengaged. Their respective purposes to the film's plot fail to stretch beyond the folly of coincidence.
The remaining elements constitute an assortment of thematic remnants. These subjects, hearty leftovers of Forman's past works, linger upon topics as diverse as madness, censorship, greed and lust. Yet, none are investigated to their potential. Sparkling atop the muddled residue of uncomfortable performances (Bardem) and undeveloped contemporaneous rhetoric, there is remarkably a true visual richness: a sophisticated aesthetic customary to Forman's European-based, English-language historical films like Amadeus.
Shot in sumptuous style by cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe, Goya's Ghosts has a masterful visual appeal. Filtered through an assortment of jaundiced yellows, murky shadows and sickly green tropes, Aguirresarobe's cinematography adds a luxuriant quality to the proceedings. It is the rare element of consistency in an otherwise erratic, unfocused mess. Lacking reciprocation by either Carrière and Forman's script or the latter's direction, Aguirresarobe's camerawork becomes the film's greatest asset: treating every image as though it were a Romanticist painting of Goya's era.
Then again, perhaps it is appropriate in a film about an artist, it is only through the images we see anything befitting of Goya's reputation.
20 December, 2008 - 10:44 — Gary Collins


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I just love kkr they are my best team thanks to shahrukkhan!!!!!!!!
Kkr fullform is kala kutta rockstar.


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A company in EU – the question that we get a lot is: "If I am a foreigner, what are my opportunities to open a company in Slovenia?" Basically, there are 3 possible forms that you can register, and the conditions are the same for everyone. In the company Data we can help you to open a LTD as a natural person, LTD as a legal entity (daughter company) or a branch office. In Data we can also prepare you all the necessary documents for the registration, and we as well offer business address and bookkeeping services. If you are a foreign citizen, you do not need residency in Slovenia to open a company.
How to register LTD company in EU?
The most common legal form in Slovenia is a private limited company (LTD). LTD can have one or more founders, and you can register it as a natural person or as a legal entity. The starting capital is 7,500 euros. You can use your capital for your business to: pay salaries, expenses, investment. You must be present at the registration of your company in EU. Your parent company, owners and legal representative must have Slovenian tax numbers if you want to open a subsidiary company. The representative of the future daughter company must have Slovenian tax number and certificate of non-criminal record from Slovenia. If you want to open LTD as a natural person, all founders and representatives must have Slovenian tax numbers. They also have to obtain certificates of non-criminal record.
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In addition, you must also have the following information: company name, address of the company, who will be the representative. And also how much will be the capital investment in the company activities. You can deposit starting capital through your personal account or in cash, if you open a company as a natural person. And through the account of the parent company if you open a daughter company. You can register you company in EU at our offices and we guide you through the entire process. The registration deadline is up to 15 days.
Company in EU – how to register a branch office?
If you wish to register a branch office, you must also include the annual financial report into the parent company's books. The parent company will be responsable for all the debts of the branch office. For branch office you have to register the same activity, as in parent company. You do not need starting capital to open a branch office. Registration is done by a notary, but we can do it based on the power of attorney. The process last up to 14 days after submitting complete documentation. Data can help you organize everything you need to register a branch office – to have a company in EU.
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A Visit to the Museum - Noyes on Culture and Barbarism
A Visit to the Museum – notes on Culture and Barbarism
From Irish Marxist Review 11.
For without exception the cultural treasures he surveys have an origin which he cannot contemplate without horror. They owe their existence not only to the efforts of the great minds and talents who have created them, but also to the anonymous toil of their contemporaries. There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism
Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History
Clearly Walter Benjamin's statement about mankind's so-called cultural treasures corresponds to certain basic propositions of historical materialism. The whole emergence of 'civilization' was predicated on and associated with the division of society into classes i.e. on exploitation and oppression. In particular the development of 'culture' and 'the arts', whether we are speaking of philosophy, poetry, drama, architecture, sculpture or whatever required the existence of a social class freed from the drudgery of producing its own food and other basic material needs and thus able to devote large amounts of its time to learned pursuits and this in turn required that these basic activities be performed for them by others – slaves, servants and peasants.
Moreover, the maintenance of such a state of affairs was possible only with the development of a strong central authority standing above society and exercising a virtual monopoly of decisive physical force, i.e. a state, willing and able to act, when required by the interests of the dominant class, with extreme barbarity.
However, speaking personally for a moment, it was the actual experience of visiting various museums and galleries that brought home to me just how direct and intimate has been the relationship between many of the highest achievements of human culture and the extremes of human barbarism.
In the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, part of the Winter Palace of the Tsars, there hangs Rembrandt's The Return of the Prodigal Son. The central feature of this wonderful painting is the father placing his hands on the back of his kneeling son in a gesture of exceptional tenderness, love and acceptance. The picture was bought for the Hermitage in 1766 by the Empress Catherine the Great who came to the throne by means of a coup against her husband Paul III in 1762 in which she had him murdered.
Remove your gaze from the painting and turn to the nearby gallery window. It looks out on the infamous Peter and Paul Fortress which stands directly on the other side of the Neva River. The Fortress was, of course, the legendary place of incarceration of political prisoners under Tsarism. In 1718 Peter the Great had his own son, Alexei, tortured to death there because of his involvement in a conspiracy.
In Venice there is the famous Bridge of Sighs which runs from the Doge's Palace to an adjacent building. The Doge's Palace is one of the main landmarks in Venice visited by millions annually. It contains work by Titian, Palladio, Tintoretto, Veronese, Tiepolo and many other masters. The Bridge of Sighs is also a famous sight beneath which pass gondolas.
The Bridge of Sighs, Venice
But it was not from the romantic sighs of lovers that the Bridge got its name: rather it derives from the fact that the Bridge led directly from the court room in the Palace to the dungeons and torture chambers next door.
Florence is the leading city of the early Renaissance and one of the most important centres of art in the world – the city of Giotto, Massaccio, Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, Leonardo and Michelangelo. It has two focal points: the extraordinarily beautiful Duomo (Cathedral), with its magnificent dome designed by Brunelleschi and its Campanile(bell tower) built by Giotto, and the Piazza della Signoria containing a replica of Michelangelo's David, Cellini's great Perseus and the magnificent Palazzo Vecchio.
Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence.
In 1478 a long standing conflict between the Medici Family who ruled Florence at the time and their banker rivals, the Pazzi Family came to head. The Pazzis, in alliance with the Silviatis (papal bankers in Florence) and with the tacit support of Pope Sixtus IV, launched a coup. On Sunday 26 April during High Mass at the Duomo before a crowd of 10,000 they attacked Lorenzo and Giuliano de Medici. Giuliano was stabbed nineteen times and bled to death on the cathedral floor but Lorenzo, though wounded, escaped and rallied his supporters who counterattacked, capturing and killing the conspirators. One, Jacopo de Pazzi, was thrown from a window of the Palazzo, then dragged naked through the streets and thrown into the River Arno. Others were hung publicly from the walls of the Palace.
Twenty years later in 1498, the radical preacher, Girolamo Savanarola, who denounced the corruption of the church and was much admired by Botticelli and Michelangelo, was hung and burned at the stake in the Piazza della Signoria after being subject to torture by the strappado[1].
This unity of opposites between culture and barbarism is nowhere as clear as in Rome. Rome of the High Renaissance and Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel was also, of course, Rome of the Papacy (held at various times by the Borgias, the Medicis, the Della Roveres and the Farneses) which was legendary for its corruption, decadence and murderous intrigues and which together with the Jesuits and the Inquisition launched the Counter-Reformation at the Council of Trent in 1545. So the Rome of St.Peter's and the Vatican museums is also and simultaneously the Rome of brutal repression such as the public roasting in the Campo de' Fiori of Giordano Bruno, for the 'crime' of heresy.
But it is the ruins and art of Ancient Rome – the Colosseum, the Forum, the Capitoline Museums, the thermal baths of Caracalla - that most starkly embody the culture/barbarity relation. This is because they were and are so bound up with institution of slavery. The Colosseum, even its ruined state, is a building of awe inspiring splendour but the purpose it served was unspeakable: the systematic slaughter of human beings and animals for 'sport'.
Unfortunately the dependency of art on barbarism has not ended to this day albeit the links are more indirect and less overt. The New York Museum of Modern Art, generally regarded as the most influential museum in the history of modern art, was the creation of,.and run by, the Rockefeller Family who amassed their vast fortunes through Standard Oil (forerunner of ExxonMobile); no reader of this Review should need reminding of the link between blood and oil. Another of America's leading art museums, The Getty in Los Angeles, is also based on oil money – in this case the fortune amassed by Jean Paul Getty via the Getty Oil Company. New York's second most important modern art museum is the Guggenheim, housed in a famous building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The Guggenheim differs from MOMA and the Getty in that it arose not from oil money but from gold mining in the Yukon.
In the UK the Tate Britain was built on the sight of the old Millbank Prison with money made by Henry Tate whose fortune derived from the sugar trade which had its roots in slavery in the Caribbean. By coincidence, if you look across the River Thames from the steps of the Tate what you see is Vauxhall Cross, the Ziggurat like headquarters of MI6.
Vauxhall Cross, London
And for most of the last 30 years the contemporary art scene in Britain has been dominated by Charles Saatchi who made his wealth through the Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency which established itself by running Margaret Thatcher's election campaign in 1979. People who have worked for Saatchi testify not only to his ruthless capital accumulation but to his personal brutishness– a fact confirmed by his public assault on his wife, Nigella Lawson.
One of the largest collections of African art in the world is housed in the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren in Belgium. How did that art get there? It is only necessary to pose the question to grasp the answer. It was hardly donated by the Congolese in gratitude for the kindness bestowed on them by King Leopold and his associates[2].
These examples can be multiplied almost indefinitely because Marx's statement that 'the ruling ideas of any age are the ideas of the ruling class' applies with as much force to the area of the arts as it does to philosophy, law, religion or education; indeed even more so where painting, sculpture and architecture are concerned because the physical and monetary resources for the making, storage, display etc of such work are more than are needed to write a book or a poem. And because, to quote Marx again, 'If money … comes into the world with a congenital blood-stain on one cheek, capital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt.'[3]
Therefore the question is what are the implications of this intimate association between culture and barbarous oppression? One view, much favoured by tyrants, rulers and their agents and apologists is that the cultural achievements justify or redeem the barbarism. This was concisely expressed by the deeply cynical Harry Lime in The Third Man.
Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
An opposite, and in my view preferable, position is that no art, no matter how wonderful is worth a single human life. Then there is also the attitude, common in left wing and radical circles, that all art and culture of the past and all 'established' art of the present is so contaminated by and implicated in the barbarity and brutality of the ruling classes that it should be totally rejected in favour of a new 'people's' or working class art. This was the view taken, for example, by the Dadaists in Zurich in World War 1. It was the culture and art of the past, they argued, that had culminated in the mass slaughter in the trenches, which claimed 10 million lives or more, and therefore it deserved only to dispensed with and destroyed. A similar position was taken by the Proletarian Culture movement (known as Proletcult) in Russia immediately after the 1917 Revolution; they rejected all 'bourgeois' art in the name of a new working class art that they believed they were in the process of creating.
Walter Benjamin himself, with whose observation this article began, stopped short of outright rejection but concluded that because the cultural treasures of the past 'have an origin which he cannot contemplate without horror' the historical materialist 'views them with cautious detachment'.
However, the classical Marxists such as Marx and Engels, Lenin, Trotsky and Rosa Luxemburg took a rather less detached and rather more positive view of the great art of the past. They argued that this cultural heritage – despite its roots in slave, feudal and capitalist society – was something which the modern working class should not reject or destroy but should aim to take over from the bourgeoisie and make widely available to the masses. Marx, for example, is known to have been a great enthusiast for the literature of Ancient Greece, especially Aeschylus, and for Shakespeare. Engels particularly admired Balzac despite his reactionary views (for his realistic depiction of French society). Lenin regarded the plans of the Proletcult as rather juvenile ultra-leftism and Trotsky variously defended Dante, Shakespeare and Pushkin on the grounds that reading their work, regardless of its overt political stance, would enrich the human personality and our understanding of life.
In support of this latter position I would add that although humanity's 'cultural heritage' was, and remains, dominated and largely owned by the ruling classes and thus unavoidably associated with and tainted by their barbarism, the relationship between the art (and the artists) and the rulers is also marked by many contradictions.
For example, the Medici family, overall, dominated Florence during the Renaissance and after[4], and also were patrons of the young Michelangelo. Nevertheless there was also resistance to Medici rule and Michelangelo's David was commissioned by the City Council to celebrate the success of the city in deposing them and it is clear that Michelangelo himself was hostile to the Medicis, just as he also had conflicts with Pope Julius II who commissioned the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Similarly the Tsars may have bought up paintings by Rembrandt but Rembrandt himself, and his art, was a product of the Dutch Revolution which was broadly anti-imperial and progressive in character.[5] And the Rockfeller family's MOMA in New York may have promoted Picasso but Picasso was a leftist and, for a time, a Communist. Even when the artists are not in anyway radical their work often embodies values that are far more humane than those of the ruthless tyrants and billionaire exploiters for whom they end up working.
It is class society, not the art itself, which makes artistic achievement rest on barbaric and exploitative foundations and while artists can and do struggle in various ways to free themselves from this dependence it is ultimately a contradiction that can be resolved only by ending class society.
After the Revolution I am sure we can find many positive uses for the awesome Colosseum including housing an exhibition devoted to Spartacus and the great slave revolts.
[1] A gruesome mechanism that broke the shoulders.
[2] Belgian colonial rule in the Congo, especially under King Leopold, is legendary for its extreme brutality.
[3] Karl Marx, Capital, Vol I, London 1974, pp.711-12.
[4] For a period the Medicis were driven out of Florence but in the period of reaction after 1527 they returned as hereditary rulers – a position they retained for 200 years.
[5] See John Molyneux, Rembrandt and Revolution, Redwords, London 2001.
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Mass Revolt Sweeps Ireland
Last Saturday (1 November) saw an extraordinary wave of protest across every town in Ireland. In a country of only 4.5 million around 200,000 took to the streets against the government's proposed water charges. This follows on an immense national demonstration of over 100,000 in Dublin on 11 October.
If the overall figure is massive it is in the detail that the real scale of the revolt shows itself. In Letterkenny, a town of 20,000 in Donegal, about 10,000 people marched. In Drogheda, population 38,000, it was 8000. In small towns like Swords, north of Dublin, and Bray, south of Dublin, Sligo in the North West and Waterford on the South coast, the figure was about 5,000.
Even in very small places like Fermoy in Cork (population about 5000) and Gorey (9,000) there were 1-2 thousand on the streets.
In Dublin, where the movement is most developed, there were about 30,000 in the city centre at the GPO but there were 25 protests at the same time in other parts of the City. Most of these were thousands strong.
To give readers a flavour of the day, this is what happened in my neighbourhood of Drimnagh. The demo began outside my house where we gathered about 40 neighbours behind our banner. From there we marched to local shops, where our ranks swelled to six hundred. Then we marched through the local area growing to over a thousand and down to a major roundabout about a mile away where we met up with four other marches. In all about 4000 or so occupied and held the roundabout.
It was a feature of many of the marches that they engaged in civil disobedience blocking key roads, roundabouts and LUAS (tram) lines but such were the numbers the guardai (police) were powerless to intervene.
The day of action was called by the Right2Water campaign which was set up on the initiative of People Before Profit and involves also the Socialist Party, the Anti-Austerity Alliance, Sinn Fein, and Unite, Mandate and the CPSU.
However the real driving force comes from grass roots organisation in local communities. All the marches have been very working class in composition.
The foundation of the movement was laid in organisation in the working class estates since September to prevent the installation of water meters,. This is reflected in the fact that one of the most popular slogans is 'Stick your Water Meters up Your Arse!'.
But there is also political generalisation. Other popular slogans are 'Enda (Kenny) in your ivory tower, this is called People Power!' and, with its echoes of Palestine, 'From the Rivers to the Sea, Irish Water will be Free!'.
The radicalisation of the Irish working class is also seen in recent election results and opinion polls which show the decline of all the mainstream parties (Fine Gael, Fianna Fail and Labour) and the rise of Sinn Fein and the far left.
This great people's revolt is the culmination of six years of relentless austerity, unjust charges and cutbacks which have left working people with their backs to the wall. Now they have a sense of their power and believe they defeat the hated Water Charges and bring down the government.
From here the movement through numerous local actions to another great national demonstration on 10 December, a working day which involves a call to Stay Away from work and lay siege to Parliament.
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Colombo City Tour
The Colombo City Tour is Colombo's first ever open deck city tour service launched by Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority and Ebert Silva Holidays (Pvt) Ltd, in a public - private partnership. Ebert Silva Holidays is the leisure wing of Ebert Silva Group. The Colombo City Tour adds flavor and excitement to the touristic experience the city of Colombo has to offer, further promoting and enhancing the tourism industry consonant with the " Mahinda Chinthanaya" - the Vision of H.E. the President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

The imposing open-deck double decker buses of the Colombo City Tour has proved to be a magnetic 'happening' in the city of Colombo. Both the foreign and local tourists have been mesmerized by the experience on board the Colombo City Tour and by the panoramic views it offers whilst traversing through historic and interesting nukes and corners of the city. The comprehensive and detailed live commentary in English by professional guides impart a wealth of knowledge and an insight to the unique tapestry of history, culture and life in Sri Lanka's premier city.

Ebert Silva Holidays of the Ebert Silva Group, a trusted brand for generations in Sri Lanka's travel and tourism industry operate the Colombo City Tour and this venture was adjudged the 'Most Improved Tourism Service of the Year' at the Sri Lanka Tourism Award 2011.
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As your permanent employer, umbrella companies are able to sponsor you for your Papua New Guinean work permit provided they're on the register of approved sponsors. Many different companies offer this service, because it makes contracting in Papua New Guinea infinitely simpler and saves you the hassle of continuous paperwork. Instead of changing your work permit every time you get a new contract, you can just work how you ordinarily would under the same permit. They protect you from the bureaucratic "rain" of legal compliance with the Papua New Guinean immigration authorities. They can even deal with the Papua New Guinean Embassy directly.
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Tax Filing Deadline One month after date of issuance. Non-residents are usually allowed 90 days to file their returns.
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Deductions: membership of any associations, donations, contributions to registered pension.
Employer's tax certificate (Form P.6).
Step 4: Submit your tax return.
Step 5: If there are any outstanding taxes due, it must be paid within one month. This may be done online.
Notes A 3% AIDS levy is imposed on the cumulative tax due.
The terms "resident" and "ordinarily resident" are not defined in legislation. Residential status depends on the facts and circumstances indicating a degree of presence. Residence, domicile, and citizenship are not normally relevant, and there are no special concessions for non-residents unless a tax treaty applies.
All individuals are subject to income tax on income accrued from a source in Zimbabwe. Compensation for services rendered in Zimbabwe is deemed to be derived from a Zimbabwean source, regardless of where the payment is made or where the payer resides.
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Here in the Pacific Northwest, late summer and early fall is prime picking time. That is because in this neck of the woods, blackberry brambles are everywhere. You will find them along trails, next to roadways and even in the backyard rose garden where they are an unwelcome visitor and impossible to get rid of.
There is a positive side to this however. Blackberries are abundant and they are free for the picking, white clothing notwithstanding (more about that later).
I don't know if blackberries are common in your area but surely there is some fruit that you can either pick yourself or purchase inexpensively from a roadside stand or farmers market. So let's have some fun today and make some fruit liqueur for personal consumption or for barter.
1. Thoroughly wash your berries or fruit then cut in to small pieces. Don't forget to remove all of the pits and the seeds. Peeling is optional.
2. Place the prepared fruit in a large glass or earthenware container and add the vodka or brandy. Set aside in a cool, dark place.
3. Stir the mixture once a week for 2 to 3 weeks.
4. Strain and discard the fruit. You can use a plain wire strainer or, if you want the best possible presentation, line your strainer with a coffee filter or cheesecloth first. This will insure that all of the micro-bits of fruit are removed.
5. Add the sugar and stir well. Pour the sweetened mixture back into a clean container and cover. (Hint: use the empty vodka bottle for this purpose. You can also use Mason jars.) For the first week or two, you may have to shake the bottle a few times to insure that all of the sugar gets dissolved.
6. Take a time out. (Sorry, this is the hard part. You need to let your fruity brew age for 3 months. If you want to cheat and take a little taste before then, go ahead but at least give it 2 months or you will be disappointed.
7. During the time out, scout around for some empty bottles that you will use to store the finished product. Empty wine bottles, thrift store finds, import store treasures and even funky jars will work. Just make sure they are clean. If you need lids, you can use corks purchased from a craft store or even used, plastic wine corks.
8 At the end of 3 months, do a taste test. Not sweet enough? Add more sugar. Too sweet? Add more vodka and some water in a 1:1 ratio.
9. Carefully pour your concoction into a clean bottle. Label the bottle and you are done. The flavor will continue to develop over a period of 6 months so the longer you wait the better.
That's it – were expecting more?
This is where the fun begins since you are limited only by the bounds of your imagination.
Make an amazing martini or sidecar. Here in my home, we use the the vodka version to make a Fruitini by mixing the fruit liqueur 1:1 with triple sec. We use the brandy version in a sidecar.
Fill a glass about a third full of fruit liqueur, add ice and top with 7 up or sprite for a refreshing pre-dinner cocktail.
Sip it straight as a post dinner cocktail.
Pour over a scoop of ice cream for a colorful dessert (adults only).
Use as a topping for homemade cheesecake.
Decorate the bottle and use your fruit liqueur as a hostess gift during the holiday season.
Put a supply into deep storage to use for comfort or for barter if the SHFT.
As I said in the beginning, for us it is blackberry picking time. For others, there are all sorts other fruits to choose from. Some examples include blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, peaches, tart apples, pineapples, oranges, lemons, or sour cherries. Experiment with what you have on hand and feel free to mix and match.
Something I have not tried yet is making fruit liqueur from my food storage fruits. It works with Survival Sangria so why not?
Depending on your frame of mind, alcohol, be it wine, beer or the hard stuff, are necessary additions to the survival pantry. And even if you can not or choose not to drink alcoholic beverages, spirits are useful as a barter item.
I almost forgot – a word about the clothing. Since I was in my twenties, I have made it a habit to go berry picking in white clothing. And those days, as now, a good percentage of the berries end up on my clothes as well as in my mouth. It is a standing joke in my household that when I am wearing all white, I must be headed out the the berry patch!
Bartering With Desperate People: There is a lot of interest in bartering among prepper-types. I am not sure I agree with the "desperate" part of the title since realistically, this $7.00 e-Book is more about negotiating the very best deal in such a way that all parties to the transaction are happy. And we all know that bartering is going to become a real issue at some point down the road.
What to barter? Read 40 Items to Barter in a Post-Collapse World for some ideas.
Bargain Bin: Today I share some items that are related to today's article.
Metrokane Houdini Wine Bottle Stoppers: If you are going to store your liqueur in re-purposed wine bottles, you are going to need some bottle stoppers. These are good choice because the are reusable.
Ball Jar Heritage Collection Pint Jars: On the other hand, if you are going to use these for gifts, heritage mason jars would be great. Lucky you if you can find some real vintage mason jars – at a reasonable price, of course.
Cordials from Your Kitchen: Easy, Elegant Liqueurs You Can Make & Give : This complete guide serves up more than 100 easy recipes for delicious homemade liqueurs, including fruit liqueurs, nut liqueurs, herb liqueurs, cream-based liqueurs, and flavored brandies, vodkas, and rums.
The Home Distiller's Workbook: Your Guide to Making Moonshine, Whisky, Vodka, Rum and So Much More! Vol. 1 : The author wrote this workbook to pass along the knowledge that was taught to him in the hills of Kentucky. It takes you step-by-step, through everything you need to know to make moonshine and pretty much any other liquor in the comfort of your own kitchen.
Eveready 3-LED 6Volt Floating Lantern : Flashlights will make a great barter item. These are great because they can be retrofit into a 2000-hour flashlight using the following little 99 cent eBook: The Amazing 2000-Hour Flashlight .
One of the sale items this month is the Super Supply of Freeze-Dried Vegetables . This is a selection of assorted vegetables – a total of 18 #10 cans for $229.99. At 41%, this is one of the better values out there for freeze-dried veggies.
Another great item this month is the Military Spec Lensatic Compass for $11.99. This unit has a front window with magnification that allows for precise sighting as you are looking at your target at the same time you are looking at your compass bearing.
These are just two of the items on sale this month at Emergency Essentials.


The 14th June 2016 marks World Blood Donor Day and here at RG Group we have pushed forward with promoting the act of giving blood to save many people's lives around the world.
As part of this we also incorporated the promotion of becoming an organ donor.
Promotional posters were displayed around the site, and staff were provided with promotional pens and leaflets and encouraged to complete a 'How much do you know about blood donation?' questionnaire.
Information about the local donation stations in and around Redhill were passed to all staff if they were interested in popping along and donating blood and potentially becoming a regular donor.
With passing on the facts, figures and the benefits of giving blood and organ donation, we hope that we have 'planted the seed' in our staff's head and we will hopefully 'watch it grow' to see an increase of donors that can potentially save another person's life in the future.


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Crafting Modernism : Midcentury American Art and Design
Abrams | ISBN 9780810984806
Hardback – 368 pages
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"Crafting Modernism: Mid-century American Art and Design" will provide an in-depth examination of the American studio craft movement in general, with detailed analyses of all of the major mediums (clay, wood, fibre, metal, jewellery, and glass) favoured by the greatest craftsmen of the period. Both an exhibition catalogue and an historical reference, "Crafting Modernism" explores the origins of the studio craft movement, the international influences that helped it grow in this country and abroad and its convergence with the fine arts. The post-war years were a time of particular importance for the studio movement as a new generation of craftsmen began to express cultural identity and artistic innovation as well as provide social commentary through their work in all media, which led to the proliferation of the craft movement to museums and exhibitions worldwide. Artists represented in this book include Anni Albers, Dale Chihuly, Hans Christensen, Charles and Ray Eames, Sheila Hicks, Wharton Esherick, Maurice Heaton, Dorothy Liebes, Sam Maloof, George Nakashima, Gertrud and Otto Natzler, Peter Voulkos and Russel Wright, among many others. "Crafting Modernism" is the fourth instalment of the Centenary Project begun in 1993 by the Museum of Art and Design to explore the origins and development of twentieth-century American crafts. New research has made this exhibit and book possible, exploring the rediscovery and reinvigoration of craft media in the post-war years.
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Drive the Carretera Austral in the scenic Aysen region of Chile
from £2,595pp (excluding flights)
OverviewItinerary at a glanceAccommodation
A self-drive adventure on the Carretera Austral, a remote road through the stunning mountainous scenery of the Aysen region of Chilean northern Patagonia.
An unspoilt wilderness that richly rewards travellers' with the inclination to explore this little known region of Chile
Drive the Carretera Austral, the perfect way to explore this region
World class fly fishing on the mighty Baker River
Experience an array of outdoor pursuits - jet boating, trekking, ice hiking, kayaking and rafting
Begin this journey in the small settlement of Balmaceda, in Chilean northern Patagonia, fly in and collect your 4x4 before heading south into the wilderness. Lovers of mountains, lakes and rugged, remote landscapes, will be delighted with this area of northern Patagonia. The roads are unpaved most of the way but are in good condition, adding to the excitement and pioneering spirit you get from a road trip in this area.
This holiday is very much about the incredible scenery. Do this from the car windows as you travel through the changing landscape, from tree shrouded valleys to rocky, snow-capped mountains; from emerald rivers to turquoise, glacial-fed streams. Crystal clear lakes reflect the surrounding mountains, amplifying the magnificence of the scenery. It's an adventure driving down the Carretera without a car in sight, just the tell-tale sign of dust in the distance to let you know that humanity is still out there. If you feel like stretching your legs there are numerous activities to participate in, fly fishing in the Rio Baker, glacier walks, trekking for all abilities, kayaking and jet boating.
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PLEASE NOTE THE COST SHOWN INCLUDES INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS DEPARTING FROM THE UK, BASED ON AN APPROXIMATE AIR FARE. PLEASE ASK YOUR TRAVEL EXPERT FOR AN ACCURATE INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT QUOTE. INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS DEPARTING FROM THE UK ARE ATOL PROTECTED.
London - Madrid - Santiago
Fly London to Madrid
Fly Madrid to Santiago overnight
Day at leisure in Santiago
Santiago de Chile enjoys a striking setting sandwiched between The Andes and the Pacific Ocean. It is a modern, cosmopolitan capital city with much to keep the discerning traveller occupied.
Cable car rides offer panoramic views, while art museums both classic and modern vie for your attention. As a modern city, it is easy to explore and any visitor will delight in wandering the bohemian district of Lastarria, home to high quality boutiques and restaurants.
Readily accessible from the city are horse riding, white water rafting or skiing excursions and the region's much celebrated vineyards.
You will be staying at Hotel Orly, bed and breakfast
Day at Leisure with Optional Sightseeing
Time to yourself. You may like to consider some of the following excursion ideas:
- Explore the charming port city of Valparaiso with its original funiculars and winding, multi-coloured streets.
- Wine-tasting with a vineyard tour in the Maipo or Colchagua Valley.
- Visit Pablo Neruda's house at Isla Negra, Chile's Literature Nobel Prize winner.
- Go riding for the day in the Andean Foothills on little-used mule trails.
- Travel by car southwards out of the city through local towns and villages to the tranquil El Yeso Reservoir
Santiago - Balmaceda - Puerto Rio Tranquilo
Fly Santiago to Balmaceda
Pick up place: Balmaceda
Drop off place: Balmaceda
Duration of hire: 9 days
Type of vehicle: Car
Drive from Balmaceda to Puerto Rio Tranquilo
A scenic three hour drive, the first hour is on a paved road, the last part of the journey is on a good unpaved road.
The small town of Puerto Rio Tranquilo is located on the western side of the General Carrera Lake. It is the base for visits to the marble caves and Exploradores Glacier.
You will be staying at Hostal El Puesto, bed and breakfast
Puerto Rio Tranquilo
Half Day Marble Caves
Take a small boat the short distance across the General Carrera lake to reach the marble cave sanctuary. A picturesque spot where the constant movement of the water has eroded the blue/grey coloured rocks leaving behind secret caves, amazing tunnels and breathtaking formations.
Puerto Rio Tranquilo - Patagonia Park
Travel from Puerto Rio Tranquilo to Patagonia Park
Drive three to three and a half hours to Patagonia Park. The journey runs along the beautiful turquiose coloured Rio Baker river. It is worth a stop at the confluence where the river meets with the Rio Nef, it is quite an impressive site. Watch out for guanaco and other wildlife during the drive through Patagonia Park.
Patagonia Park is an area of 200,000 acres of land in a remote part of Aysen, Chile. It was once an overgrazed sheep and cattle ranch which is being returned to its natural state of grasslands. It is now an important ecosystem which is helping to protect many rare and threatened species. Wildlife has returned to the park already including huemul deer, puma, Andean condor and guanaco amongst others.
You will be staying at The Lodge at Valle Chacabuco, bed and breakfast
Patagonia Park
Exploration of Patagonia Park
Spend the day exploring the incredible landscapes of Patagonia Park. From the lodge there are endless hiking trails which can be done with or without a private guide, these range from a short stroll to a full day trek. There are some beautiful scenic drives through the park with views of flamingo filled lakes, snow-capped mountains and open grassland. Another fun activity in the park is mountain biking, bikes cannot be hired in the park but can be arranged. Bird watching is good, particularly the Chacabuco Valley which is home to about 100 species of birds. During the walks and drives look out for the many mammals that live in the park including guanaco, huemul, mountain vizcacha and red fox.
Outside of the park are many opportunities for boating and kayaking as well as some world class fly fishing along the Baker and Cochrane rivers.
Patagonia Park - Caleta Tortel
Travel from Patagonia Park to Caleta Tortel
A stunning five hour journey along unpaved roads, past rivers, lakes and mountains.Travel through the small town of Cochrane which does have an ATM and petrol.
Caleta Tortel is a coastal village located between the mouth of the Baker River and a small embayment of the Baker Channel. The surrounding geography is rugged, formed by a number of islands, fjords, channels and estuaries. The village was founded in 1955 to exploit the cypress wood that was abundant in the area. For most of its history the village had only air and boat access, a road was constructed only in 2003.
Caleta Tortel consists mainly of stilt houses, typical of Chilota architecture, built along the coast for several kilometres. There are no conventional streets - instead there are wooden walkways and staircases. This gives the village its distinctive look. Cars need to park at the Rincón Alto area above the main town and then travel is on foot down the wooden staircases and along the boardwalk streets.
You will be staying at Entre Hielos Lodge, bed and breakfast
Caleta Tortel
Day to explore Caleta Tortel
A day to explore this remote area, options include:
- trips to Glacier Steffens
- many wonderful hikes of varying lengths
- take a boat trip along the Baker river or one of the many bays and islands in this area
- walk along the boardwalk streets, exploring this quirky town
Caleta Tortel - Aysen Region
Drive from Caleta Tortel to Hacienda Tres Lagos
A journey of about six hours along unpaved roads. Scenery all along this route is beautiful with a mix of mountains, lakes, rivers and rugged remote landscapes.
You will be staying at Mallin Colorado Ecolodge, bed and breakfast
Aysen Region - Balmaceda - Santiago - Madrid
Drive from Hacienda Tres Lagos to Balmaceda
A journey of approximately five hours travelling along the shores of the huge General Carrera Lake.
Fly Balmaceda to Santiago
Fly Santiago to Madrid overnight
Madrid - Balmaceda - London
Fly Madrid to London
Below you can see some of the wonderful places we recommend you stay on your journey.
Hotel Orly
Positioned on a wide tree-lined avenue in Santiago's buoyant Providencia district, Hotel Orly is a charming mansion property that is encompassed by trendy eateries and close to the efficient Santiago Cable Car....
The Lodge at Valle Chacabuco
An inviting and sustainable lodge set within the iconic Patagonia Park, The Lodge at Valle Chacabuco is the only non-camping accommodation in this private nature reserve....
Mallin Colorado Ecolodge
Mallin Colorado Ecolodge is a family run property overlooking the General Carrera Lake in the Aysen region of northern Patagonia....
Our experts have unrivalled firsthand knowledge of Chile
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Adalaj is a small village which is very near to both Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar. We visited this historic site from Ahmedabad during our tour of Gujarat state.
This must visit site is known for ancient Rudabai step-well that is a architectural marvel and we shall explore more of it soon.
Being away from the cities one can also spot a few common birds here.
I suppose this bird is common to you butI do not know it!
That common bird looks uncommonly happy!
Such a lovely temple...and the bird is beautiful!
they mynah is very pretty!
Your architectural sites are really very special. So are your mynah birds.
I'm thinking a mynah bird? Not sure tho.
Ancient architecture, and a lovely bird!
Beautiful temple. That's a nice capture of the bird also.
The bird is a different one for me. I'd prefer to be here in a small village than in the city !
Splendid temple, and so nice the bird!
The one thing that I remember is the cool interiors - I mean really cool interiors.


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Also known as Diablo Valley, DVC
321 Golf Club Rd, Pleasant Hill, CA
Diablo Valley College (DVC) is a two-year college in the Contra Costa Community College District. It is located on a 100-acre campus in view of Mt. Diablo, and just 20 miles from the University of Berkeley, California. Many students at DVC aim to transfer to UC Berkeley and other four-year institutions to complete their bachelor's degrees. DVC has an excellent transfer rate, and transfer agreements with the UC California and California State College systems.
DVC offers associate's degrees and vocational and professional training that leads to certificates of achievement and accomplishment. DVC offers academic study programs in 57 occupational specialties. Lifelong learning opportunities are also available without a degree or certificate, and many courses are available online through "DVC Online."
Established in 1949 as East Contra Costa Junior College, it originally operated out of rooms in local high schools, banks and churches. It got its own campus site in 1952, and the name was changed to Diablo Valley College in 1958.
The academic calendar for Diablo Valley College offers fall, spring and summer terms, with shorter sessions available at other times throughout the year.
Academic units at DVC are organized into academic divisions. The nine academic divisions at Diablo Valley College are:
Applied and Fine Arts
Biological and Health Sciences
Counseling/Library
Math and Computer Science
Physical Education, Athletics and Dance
Physical Sciences and Engineering
At San Ramon campus, the divisions are:
Applied Arts & Social Science
Computer Information Systems (CIS)
For students at Diablo Valley College who are seeking involvement beyond the classroom, there are a wide variety of student clubs and organizations available on campus. The focus of the 50-plus student organizations on campus ranges from academic to athletic, social, political, cultural, religious, artistic and special interest. Students who wish to start their own student club or organization may do so through the Associated Students of Diablo Valley College (ASDVC).
Art galleries featuring student art, musical, theatre and dance performances are also available. The student newspaper offers information about campus activities and offers more opportunities for student involvement.
Other student resources available through DVC include student health services, a student life office, student union, leadership, support resources, and a calendar of events, among others.
DVC has a relatively new fight song called "Go Green," which is quickly becoming a new student tradition. The traditional school colors are green and white, with gold as an accent color. The school mascot is a Viking, and the athletic teams are nicknamed the Diablo Valley "Vikings."
The Diablo Valley College "Vikings" athletic teams compete in several intercollegiate sports, including:
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In addition to its primary Pleasant Hill Campus in Pleasant Hill, California, Diablo Valley College also has the San Ramon Valley Center in the Dougherty Valley area of San Ramon, California. Classes are also taught at various locations throughout the community.
Community resources for Diablo Valley College include an observatory that features a planetarium, and community access to theatre, dance and musical performances on campus.
Estimated Costs & Financial Aid
The average "out of pocket" cost of attendance, after any grants and scholarships are considered, is around $7,000. The figures listed below are for informational purposes only and do not represent current or future tuition, fees, and expenses.
Tuition & Fees Information
Tuition estimates per year:
State Residents: $1,300-$1,500
Out-of-State: $7,500-$9,038
Part-time students are charged:
In-State: $46-$55 per unit
Out-of-State: $270-$320 per unit
Financial Aid Details
The table below breaks down the types of financial aid, the percent of students receiving aid, and average amount of aid per student per year.
Percent of Students
Average Amount
Any Financial Aid 33% -
Receiving Grants & Scholarships 33% $4,393
Receiving Student Loans 1% $3,841
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Admissions, Academics, & Student Services
To help support students, Diablo Valley College may provide services to students including:
Online course work available
Night and weekend classes available
Remedial courses
Career path counseling
Employing students to lower education costs
Assistance to find work
Graduation & Transfer Rates
Many community colleges are not only a source of technical or career training but also a stepping stone for students to transfer-out to a 4-year college, therefore we have included both graduation and transfer rates below and how Diablo Valley, DVC compares against other community colleges in Contra Costa County and community colleges in California as a whole.
Diablo Valley, DVC
Graduation Rate 39.5% 31.0% 24.3%
Transfer-out Rate 16.6% 14.5% 13.8%
Specialized Programs & Accreditations
Dental Assistant Program
Accredited by the American Dental Association, Commission on Dental Accreditation (since 1961)
Dental Hygienist Program
Accredited by the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation (since 2011)
The program list below is organized by areas of study. The programs that have a link will direct you to the program's profile page where you can learn more about education requirements and career pathways.
Get more information about the programs offered by Diablo Valley College by clicking the request information to the right.
(C) Certificate or Award | (A) Associate's | (B) Bachelor's | (M) Master's Degree | (D) Doctorate (PhD,...)
Agriculture Operations
Horticulture (C)
Landscaping (C)
Plant Nursery Operations and Management (C)
Architectural Technology (A, C)
Biology (A)
Business and Marketing Studies
Business Administration (A, C)
Commerce (A, C)
Bookkeeping (A, C)
Administrative Assistant (C)
Hospitality Administration and Management (A)
Small Business Management (C)
Sales Manager (C)
Banking and Financial Services (C)
Real Estate (C)
Audio and Video Production (A, C)
Animation (A, C)
Communications (A, C)
Journalism (A)
Radio and Television (A, C)
Computer Programming (A, C)
Data Entry and Microcomputer Applications (A, C)
Computer Support Specialist (A, C)
Computer Networking (A)
Construction Site Management (A, C)
Building Inspector and Home Inspector (A)
Special Education (A, C)
Pre-Engineering (A)
Energy Management (A, C)
Computer Aided Design (CAD) (C)
Civil Drafting and Civil Engineering cad (A)
Mechanical Drafting and Mechanical Drafting cad
English (A)
Child Care Provider (A, C)
Child Care (C)
Foreign Languages and Literature
Japanese Language and Literature (A, C)
Spanish Language and Literature (A, C)
Italian Language and Literature (A, C)
Chinese Language and Literature (A, C)
Russian Language and Literature (C)
French Language and Literature (A, C)
German Language and Literature (C)
Health and Clinical Professions
Health Preparatory Programs (A, C)
Dental Hygienist (A)
Substance Abuse and Addiction Counseling (A, C)
Dental Assistant (A, C)
Dental Laboratory Technology (A, C)
Athletic Training (A)
Medical Lab Technician (A)
History (A)
Biological and Physical Sciences (A)
Liberal Arts (A, C)
Humanistic Studies (A)
Library Assistant (A, C)
Math (A)
Mechanic and Repair Technology
Electrical Equipment Installation and Repair (A, C)
Cooking and Related Culinary Arts (A, C)
Restaurant and Catering Management (C)
Philosophy (A)
Geology (A)
Physics (A)
Psychology (A)
Recreation and Fitness Studies
Sports Medicine (A)
Physical Fitness Technician (A, C)
Sports Management (A, C)
Security and Protective Services
Police Science (A, C)
Corrections Officer (C)
Forensic Science (C)
Political Science (A)
Sociology (A)
Anthropology (A)
Geography (A, C)
Art Studies (A)
Music (A)
Drawing (C)
Visual and Performing Arts (A)
Dance (A)
Graphic Design (A)
Drama and Theatre Arts (A)
Theatre Design and Technology
Other Community Colleges Nearby
The list of nearby schools has been selected by researching which schools offer similar programs to Diablo Valley College.
Los Medanos College in Pittsburg, CA (12 miles away)
Berkeley City College in Berkeley, CA (13 miles away)
Merritt College in Oakland, CA (14 miles away)
Contra Costa College in San Pablo, CA (15 miles away)
Laney College in Oakland, CA (16 miles away)
FAFSA School Code: 001191
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