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Father of My Children, The (France, 2009)
Spoiler Alert: This review mentions a key event that occurs mid-way through the movie. Those wishing a "virgin viewing experience" for The Father of My Children are urged to stop reading here and return to the review once they have seen the film.
The Father of My Children, the sophomore feature effort from director Mia Hansen-Løve, starts out as one film but ends up as another. Initially, the movie appears to be about how some parents, in attempting to balance work and family, end up shortchanging the latter in the service of the former. Ultimately, however, this is a more complex and emotionally demanding motion picture: one that presents an autopsy of a suicide, including the factors that lead up to it and the repercussions it has on those who are close to the victim. Despite the subject matter, however, The Father of My Children is neither overly sentimental nor depressing. It approaches the suicide as a fact of life and shows how individuals, once past the initial grief-induced paralysis, can overcome the guilt and move forward in positive and constructive ways. Hansen-Løve does not employ manipulative stock scenes (for example, there is no funeral or wake) designed to play on the viewer's emotions. There are tears, to be sure, but no more than necessary. Members of the audience may be shocked and saddened by the death but, like the characters, they recover.
At first, The Father of My Children appears to be an uncannily perspicacious expose of the independent French film industry. The lead character, Grégoire Canvel (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing), is based on the real-life prolific producer, Humbert Balsan, who killed himself at age 50 with dozens of credits on his resume. (The Father of My Children is dedicated to him.) Grégoire is introduced as an upbeat individual with seemingly boundless energy. He is a devoted father and loving husband, but he never leaves work behind. When he is at home or on vacation, a cell phone is rarely far from his ear. When The Father of My Children begins, Grégoire's company, Moon Films, is in financial difficulty, but he is convinced "something will turn up." Things don't get better, however. Productions go over-budget, doors to new credit are slammed shut, and Grégoire finds himself drowning in red ink. He sees the financial failure of his company as a personal failure, despite the best efforts of his wife, Sylvia (Chiara Caselli), to convince him otherwise. In a moment of despair, he burns some papers then puts a gun to his head and pulls the trigger.
In the wake of Grégoire's death, his wife and three children explore different coping methods. Sylvia decides to pour all her efforts into saving Moon Films and, if she can't succeed in that endeavor, she is determined to at least ensure that the in-production movies are completed. Grégoire's teen-age daughter, Clémence (Alice de Lencquesaing), investigates parts of her father's life she did not know about. Middle daughter Valentine (Alice Gautier) struggles to reconcile how Grégoire's "sadness" could trump his love for his family. And young Bille (Manelle Driss) recovers with a quickness that only children can display.
Hansen-Løve, who is married to legendary director Olivier Assayas, displays extraordinary maturity for one so young (she was 28 when she made The Father of My Children). This is no soap opera; it is a thoughtful, painstaking dissection of the circumstances that can cause a seemingly stable man to take his own life and how such an act of destruction can reverberate among the group of people who loved him. During the first half, as Grégoire's financial situation gradually worsens, we can feel the pressure building. Initially, we, like the character, think he will find a way out. After a while, however, we wonder where the story is taking us. The decision to eliminate the main character halfway through is both necessary and unexpected. Those attending The Father of My Children without knowledge of the subject matter are likely to be shocked. This doesn't rank alongside Hitchcock's killing of lead actress Janet Leigh partway through Psycho, but there are similarities.
For her cast, Hansen-Løve elected to choose lower profile actors - no Gerard Depardieu or Daniel Auteuil, for example. The decision is propitious; the lack of familiar faces adds to the seeming authenticity of the production. Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, who has had a fruitful career (albeit comprised mainly of secondary roles), provides an effective presentation of Grégoire - happy-go-lucky to start and morose and self-absorbed at the end. Chiara Caselli is solid as the wife stuck with cleaning up the mess left behind by her husband. And the three young actresses playing the children (including de Lencquesaing's daughter, Alice, as the eldest) are free of the artifice that often plagues young performers.
The Father of My Children is exceptional drama. Compelling and unforced, it shows sensitivity and evenhandedness in approaching a difficult subject. The success with which writer/director Hansen-Løve's presentation is received is a testimony to the way in which she has touched an emotional chord without playing upon it like a master manipulator.
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Cast: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Chiara Caselli, Alice de Lencquesaing, Alice Gautier, Manelle Driss, Eric Elmosnino
Screenplay: Mia Hansen-Løve
Cinematography: Pascal Auffray
U.S. Distributor: IFC Films
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Mature Themes)
Subtitles: In French with English subtitles
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Q: Why do I experience extreme lag but my friend does not in Minecraft FTB? I've been trying to play Minecraft: Feed the Beast with my friend. We decided to download the Mindcrack pack. The server is installed on my friends computer, and I downloaded the client and hamachi to connect. My friend can play fine, but I get extreme lag.
I can destroy blocks, but the items hop into my inventory after about half a minute later.
We're using skype too, and note that when playing Vanilla Minecraft we are able to play smoothly.
Any ideas why I can't play properly?

A: MOAR RAM
On a slightly more serious note, kill Skype. It's using precious resources. Get rid of Hamachi and learn how to port forward. The more things running at the same time, the more lag you're going to experience. Get OptiFine, but turn off all the stuff you don't need.

A: To reduce lag on the client side (where I think your lag is), you should set render distance to Normal (or shorter if you have an older computer), set graphics to fast, disable clouds, turn off smooth lighting, set performance to balanced, turn off particles, and, if you have a newer computer, turn ON Advanced OpenGL. If this issue persists, you can grab OptiFine (use the light version if you just want an FPS increase, otherwise go ultra) and then open FTB, then click Edit Mod Pack > Coremods > Add Mod and add the file you downloaded. Hope this helps!

A: To reduce lag minimise render distance and change option to Max FPS.

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A: I know why youre lagging I lag a lot on tekkit a lot more on tekkit lite and extreme on FTB why try to get a better modpack with good mods but without A lot of mods Like Voltz and tekkit classic Voltz have like 20 mods And tekkit lite has like 48 mods I play on small render fas graphics no cluds and max fps I this halped nothing or a bit try downloading optifine

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Reply To: The AAR 18 in 2018 Reading ChallengeSandlynn2018-07-01T09:32:00-04:00
Sandlynn
Back with the Alphabet Variation Challenge:
Letter "H" for The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
Helen Hoang's The Kiss Quotient, published in 2018, has been getting a lot of attention in romance reader circles. And, mostly, it lives up to its advance notices.
The story focuses on the relationship between a heroine who is autistic and a very successful econometrician, and a hero who works in his family's dry cleaning business by day, while, once a week, he sells his services as an escort who's available for a lot more than escorting. An unusual pair, the hero and heroine switch up the "Pretty Woman" dynamic, as our heroine, Stella Lane, hires, our hero, Michael Phan Larsen to be her practice sex partner, and then "boyfriend". Stella, who's been pushed by her parents to be more open to dating and potential marriage, has had a number of unsatisfying and unpleasant encounters with dates, which Stella blames on herself because of her autism. With the help of Michael — who has his own issues, as well as talents as a fashion designer that he's been putting on hold — Stella hopes to overcome her sexual issues in order to pursue a colleague who her family finds to be an acceptable partner. But, what happens when Stella and Michael come to find each other more appealing than they find their individual goals? Stella needs sexual practice and confidence, but Michael needs money, desperately, to help his mother. Can those issues be overcome?
I found Hoang's book to be a fresh and interesting romance, especially the gender switch up. The only downside for me was that I found Michael's constant focus on his father and his father's influence on his character to be overdone. Michael keeps mentioning his father's horrific actions without spelling them out until very late in the game. At that point, when Michael reveals his father's behavior, I was less than horrified and more annoyed that this smart, talented man let his bad egg of a father control him so much. I also thought the ending was a little over the top in terms of the characters' individual achievements. Only four months after Michael resumes his career, he is going to open three shops?! Really? Oh, and Stella gives up her entire trust fund to help Michael's mother. Her *entire* trust fund, which certainly wasn't necessary. I think that I'd give this book a B+ to an A-. Good book, but some things were a little unnecessarily dramatic.
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"Your soul stays intact, but the body you'll be in will be different." Wynter reached for Ophelia's hand, resting it over his chest. "Do you feel that?" He had kind eyes and a warm smile.


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Footie hero dies
PUBLISHED: 15:36 08 April 2010 | UPDATED: 11:38 23 August 2010
MATES: Jimmy Bullard and Bruce Sewell.
TRIBUTES have been paid to a former Fleet captain who died following a five year battle against Motor Neurone Disease. Father-of-two Bruce Sewell, 40, played 56 times for Gravesend and Northfleet FC between 1998 and 2000 where his career ended when he su
TRIBUTES have been paid to a former Fleet captain who died following a five year battle against Motor Neurone Disease.
Father-of-two Bruce Sewell, 40, played 56 times for Gravesend and Northfleet FC between 1998 and 2000 where his career ended when he suffered a broken leg.
He captained the team alongside Hull midfielder Jimmy Bullard, who turned out for the Fleet before he joined West Ham in 1999.
After being diagnosed with the disease in 2005, Mr Sewell vowed to beat the odds that claim 50 per cent of sufferers in the first two years and another 45 per cent within five years.
His funeral is due to take place in east London today following his death on March 28.
The Ebbsfleet United matchday programme had an article on the former skipper two weeks ago for the Luton Town match. He became the 'Hatter's' first team Sports Therapist after his playing career ended and before his condition forced him to leave.
Just three days before his death he emailed the EUFC website saying he had updated his website www.road2hope.com which details his progress and fundraising events.
He wrote: "I always look at the Fleet's results and see how you are doing. Thanks for thinking of me and obviously, if Luton do not go up and you do not go down, please keep me in mind to raise funds for next season.
"It's coming up to five years since my diagnosis and although it's very difficult we now have two lovely boys that keep life fun."
Bruce and his wife Annabel founded the Road2Hope campaign to raise money and increase awareness of the incurable condition which causes the body to waste away without affecting the mind.
He is survived by his wife and two sons Noah, 6, and Henry, 3.
Donations will be used by his friends to buy a bench with a plaque at High Beach where he used to cycle his bike.


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Better World Club joins Ben & Jerry's, Seventh Generation, Calvert Investments, and other Companies to Speak Out Against Citizens United
US Supreme Court Says Money Is Speech, Congress Says Talk All You Want As Long As We Get the Money
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Current U.S. Foreign Policy and Its Impacts on Europe
Eine Tagung auf Englisch für Schülerinnen und Schüler der SEK II
Die USA verfolgen derzeit in der Außen- und Handelspolitik einen konfrontativen Kurs, der selbst die eigenen Verbündeten überrascht. Ökonomischer Nationalismus, die Stärkung der nationalen Sicherheit und "Frieden durch militärische Stärke" stehen dabei strategisch im Vordergrund. Die neue Tonlage unter Donald Trump hat gravierende Folgen für Europa. Welchen Weg wird es unter diesen Bedingungen handels- und sicherheitspolitisch einschlagen?
Tagungsprogramm, Stand 23.09.2019
Arrival, tea and coffee
Official Welcome and Short Introduction
Simone Schad-Smith, Evangelische Akademie Loccum
Leaders of the Free World? Outlines of U.S. Foreign Policy and the Role of the U.S. within the International Order since the End of World War II
Andrea Rotter, Akademie für Zeitgeschehen und Politik, Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung, München
Ambivalent and Unpredictable? Trump's "America first" Policy and its Impact on International Relations
Andrea Rotter
Lunch and check-in
"Restoring the Role of the Nation States in the Liberal International Order" - Outlines of U.S. Foreign Policy Towards NATO and EU
Analyzing Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo's re-marks at German Marshall Fund in Brussels in Decem-ber 2018 and Selected Reactions of Partners at Munich Security Conference 2019 (small groups)
Undermining International Institutions and Multilateral Agreements to Build a New Liberal Order?
Selected issues of President Trump's Foreign and Trade Policy and its impact – Part I
Terminating Nuke Deals. The new U.S. Nuclear Weapons Strategy and its Impact on Europe
Jerry Sommer, Journalist und Rüstungsexperte, Düsseldorf
Morning prayers, breakfast
Selected issues of President Trump's Foreign and Trade Policy and its impact – Part II
WS 1: A Matter of Credibility? U.S. Foreign Policy towards Russia and the role of NATO and the EU
Dr. Marco Overhaus, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin
WS 2: Facing Trade Wars? Protectionist Strategies for the U.S. Economy and Consequences for Europe
PD Dr. Thomas Greven, John F. Kennedy-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin
WS 3: "Decoupling" from an Economic Partner? Trade conflicts between the U.S.A. and China
Maximilian Kärnfelt, Mercator Institute for China Studies (Merics), Berlin
WS 4: Multilateralism in Crisis? The Difficult Relationship Between the U.S.A. and the United Nations
Dr. Patrick Rosenow, Leitender Redakteur der Zeitschrift VEREINTE NATIONEN Berlin
Workshops continue
Preparing the Final Discussion in small groups
Revitalizing Transatlantic Relations – How to deal with Trump's way of treating friends and allies?
Discussion with
Sudha David-Wilp, Senior Transatlantic Fellow and Deputy Head of German Marshall Fund of the United States, Berlin
Feedback on the Conference, Closing Remarks
End of Program and Departure to Wunstorf
is a researcher at the Academy for Politics and Current Affairs of the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung (HSS) in Munich, where she focuses on German security and defense policy as well as transatlantic security cooperation. Before joining HSS, Ms. Rotter worked as a research assistant for the research division "The Americas" of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP) in Berlin. Prior to that worked in the department of International Politics and Transatlantic Relations at the University of Regensburg. Ms. Rotter holds an MA in European-American Relations from the University of Regensburg and a Bachelor's Degree in International Cultural and Business Studies from the University of Passau and the University of Stirling, United Kingdom.
Jerry Sommer
hat Geschichte und Politikwissenschaft auf höheres Lehramt studiert, dann aber als Journalist gearbeitet, u.a. für "Die Zeit", "taz" "Stern", das Fernsehen (Deutsche Welle, WDR) und den Rundfunk (WDR, Deutschlandfunk, NDR). Seit 2007 ist er freier Mitarbeiter des Bonn International Center for Conversion. Seine Schwerpunktthemen sind internationale und deutsche Rüstungspolitik, Rüstungskontrolle und Abrüstung. (Vortrag in Deutsch)
Dr. Marco Overhaus
is a senior associate and deputy head of the research division "The Americas" at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP) in Berlin. He holds a diploma in Political Science from the University of Potsdam. Previously, he worked in the Policy Planning division for North America at the German Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt), and at the Chair for International Relations and Foreign Policy of the University of Trier. He was a Transatlantic Fellow at RAND Corporation, Washington, D.C., and at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), Paris. His research focus at SWP is: The United States of America, NATO as well as Transatlantic relations.
PD Dr. Thomas Greven
is adjunct professor of political science at Freie Universität Berlin and an independent lecturer, political consultant and analyst. He teaches at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies as well as in the Africa division of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Berlin. Greven studied political science at FU Berlin and Western Michigan University. In 1995-96, he was a Congressional Fellow in the office of Bernie Sanders. He received his doctorate and "habilitation" in political science at FU Berlin where he served as a professor for many years. Thomas Greven was visiting scholar, inter alia, at the University of British-Columbia, the Economic Policy Institute (Washington DC), the University of California, Berkeley, York University in Toronto, the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC). His research interests include US politics and foreign policy, labor unions and industrial relations, globalization and development policy, right-wing populism and extremism and African politics.
Maximilian Kärnfeld
works as an analyst at Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), Berlin. His main fields of research are China's macroeconomy, monetary policy, and financial markets. Prior to joining MERICS, he worked as an economic consultant for several companies. In 2016, he received his master's degree in economics from Peking University, where he also worked as a research assistant. Kärnfelt has an undergraduate degree in financial economics from the University of Gothenburg, and he studied Chinese at both Zhejiang Agriculture & Forestry University and Wanli University.
Dr. Patrick Rosenow
is editor-in-chief of the German Review on the United Nations ("Zeitschrift Vereinte Nationen"), which is published by the United Nations Association of Germany (UNA Germany, DGVN), located in Berlin. His research focuses are the role of the United States at the United Nations and the United Nations in general. In 2009, he published the book "Weltmacht gegen Weltorganisation? Die UN-Politik der USA unter George W. Bush", in 2019 he published his dissertation "Die Ständigen Vertreter der USA bei den Vereinten Nationen". Previously, he was research assistant at the Professorship of International Organizations and Globalization at the Department for Political Science at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. Prior to that, he worked as a lecturer in political education at Haus Rissen Hamburg, an independent institute for international politics and economics. Patrick Rosenow studied political science, sociology and European ethnology at Christian Albrechts University Kiel.
Sudha David-Wilp
is a senior transatlantic fellow and deputy director of the Berlin office of German Marshall Fund (GMF) of the United States. She oversees GMF's Congress-Bundestag Forum, a joint program with the Robert Bosch Foundation, and engages with the media as an expert on German–U.S. relations, and covers transatlantic digital topics. Before moving to Berlin in 2011, she was the director of international programs at the U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress in Washington, DC for nearly eight years. At the Association, David-Wilp was responsible for congressional study groups and international programs for current members of Congress and senior congressional staff. She established a trilateral roundtable format for legislators and launched a speakers' program involving current and former lawmakers. She received her bachelor's from Johns Hopkins University and her master's in international relations from Columbia University.
Simone Schad-Smith
E-Mail: simone.schad@evlka.de
Heike Springborn
E-Mail: heike.springborn@evlka.de
Die Evangelische Akademie Loccum ist Mitglied der Evangelischen Akademien in Deutschland (EAD) e.V., Berlin.


I love these kinds of new-feature surprises (Office 2013) – Absolutely Full of I.T.
Isn't it fun when a new feature just shows up in front of you before you even knew about it? I recently installed Microsoft Office 2013 on my production laptop, and was working on an outline of questions for an upcoming TechNet Radio show we're recording in a couple of days.
When finished, I created an e-mail that I had intended to attach the document to.
I love little surprises like that.
Do you? Let's discuss in the comments.
Yeah, Gmail has had this feature for a couple of years.


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Q: The Mathematic Tricks in the Derivation of Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle I'm studying the derivation of Heisenberg Uncertainty principle but stuck with the mathematic trick.
When deriving Heisenberg Uncertainty principle, consider a function γ(t):
$γ(k,t)\equiv([t−(t)]−iκ[i\frac{∂}{∂t}−(ω)])f(t)=(T−iκΩ)f(t)$
Then,
$|γ(k,t)|^2=(T-ikΩ)f(t)·(T+ikΩ^*)f^*$
Let me omit the further steps. My question is:
Why $|γ(κ, t)|^2$ is equal to $(T-ikΩ)f(t)·(T+ikΩ^∗)f^*$?


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Limbaugh: Trump Caving Narrative Could Be Part of Effort by Dems, Media to Drive Wedge Between Trump, Supporters
Thursday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh reacted to the last night's news that President Donald Trump had struck a deal with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy.
Included in the deal according to some reports was Trump backing away from his pledge to build a border wall. While the reports have been mixed on the specifics of the meeting, Limbaugh suggests the rush to get the story out there could have been motivated by Democrats and the media seeking to drive a wedge between Trump and his supporters.
Partial transcript as follows (courtesy of RushLimbaugh.com):
RUSH: So I went to bed last night at about 11 o'clock out here on the Left Coast. That's two o'clock eastern. Everything was quiet, and I stayed up an additional half hour waiting to see if there was any breaking news. I mean, 10:30 West Coast time is 1:30 East Coast time, and there was nothing. I woke up… I went to bed and it was very, very peaceful. I wake up to all hell breaking loose! I said, "Is this is ever gonna end? Is there ever gonna be a normal day again?" (interruption) No, no, no. I'm not talking about the hurricane. That's actually going well.
Did you see that they have restored 1.4 million people back to power last night? FPL apparently is making great progress in restoring power. Remember they said it was gonna be out maybe for months? I know. You know why they do that? They do it on purpose. They get it back on in weeks and people say, "Wow," just like they're doing now. But here they are. That's fantastic. There's still 2.6 million still out of power out of a little over six million, so we're really moving fast.
Trump did an appearance there today. I think he flew down to Fort Myers. He's meeting victims and governor… I mean, everybody down there is just really doing a bang-up job. There were trucks, power people, contractors, tree and landscapers just waiting for this storm to get out of there and drive south into south Florida — and they've arrived, and they have begun their work. And that's up. I mean, that's an upper. That's a positive thing. Thanks to all of those people that are — and they're gonna get paid. I mean, this is commerce at work, here.
Pelosi calls it "triple" down.
Anyway, so I wake up today, and all hell is breaking loose — and, you know, I wade through it. I do not knee-jerk react to anything, particularly when the Drive-By Media is involved. When the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party are involved in setting a narrative every day, writing the script for the soap opera, I'm sorry, folks: I am immediately suspicious. I am not fatalistic. I am not pessimistic by nature except in a few things, and I'm not gonna tell you what those are. But certainly not this.
So I hustled and got out of the hotel, and I raced in here to start trying to make sense of things. So when I got up, the news was that Trump had caved on the wall, that Trump at dinner with Chuck and Nancy last night had caved on the wall. And then I saw that a lot of people, Trump voters, Trump supporters, believed it! They were saying, "That didn't take long. It's not even October, and Trump has already sold us out." I understand people have been sold out so many times voting for Republicans that they're conditioned to be sold out.
So they just figured this Trump thing may be too good to be true. Chuck and Nancy, first they make a deal on the debt ceiling and spending, and Trump's praising them and praising it. Mitch and Paul are over there fuming that they've been sold out and then thrown under the bus. And now this thing comes along, and everybody's just fatalistic about it and thinking that it's over. But I stop and I ask myself: Would Trump really do this?
Does Trump not know how he would blow up the entire support base he has by making a deal with Chuck and Nancy, and taking the wall off the table while granting amnesty to anybody? I don't care if it's children, if it's seasoned citizens. I'm asking myself: Would Trump really do that? Is he that…? Fill in the blank. But a lot of people do think it, a lot of people did think it, and right there pushing that narrative is the Drive-By Media — and certain Republicans are helping that narrative be pushed.
They think that Trump caved to Chuck and Nancy on the wall. So I came in here and I started digging deep, and I said to myself: "Don't get caught up in this. What you need to do is just chill." So I started looking into things. And we've got, I mean, a mountain of things to go through. But I'm gonna tell you what Trump just said a few moments ago on the tarmac in Florida when he and Melania and his team landed in Florida. It's a tweet: "We have to have the wall. If we don't have the wall, we're doing nothing."
And then a tweet came 25 minutes later from Fox Business: "The wealthy Americans are not my priority. My priority are people in the middle class and that's where we're giving the big tax reduction." That's another thing that blew up yesterday. When I got… (chuckling) You know, I got back to the hotel after the program yesterday and I'm deluged with messages from people, "Well, we were played. We were played! Trump's talking about raising taxes on the rich now, and that's the only reason I voted for him." I mean, deluged.
I had more people reacting to that than I have people reacting to me, anyway, on this Chuck and Nancy deal with the wall. So that's something we'll put off to the side. We'll come back to the tax business, because that's the fundamental issue as well. There is a pretty good summary of events here that goes like this: Chuck and Nancy claimed after a dinner at the White House with the president that a deal had been done on granting amnesty to the DACA kids, the DREAMers. (They're not kids anymore, not all of them. Thirty percent of them have reportedly committed criminal acts, some felonies.)
Chuck and Nancy said that Trump had agreed to enshrine protections for 800,000 illegal immigrants, the DREAMers, "in a border security package excluding the wall." Remember something, folks: The media's primary task since the inauguration has been to separate you, if you are a Trump supporter, from Trump. That has been their objective. They're smart enough to know that if they can't destroy Trump, that only Trump can. Where have we heard that before? Only Trump can destroy Trump. They can't. They've been trying.
They know they can't. So they've been trying to drive a wedge between you — Trump supporters — and Trump. So if Chuck and Nancy come out and say, "We got a deal! We got a deal! Amnesty for the kids and Trump said to hell with the wall" and media reports it, all hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Trump's in the White House doing whatever he's doing, not even aware this guy going on until after the fact. The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said there was no agreement on the wall during the meeting, which puts the ball back in the court for Chuck and Nancy, who said not only was there a deal but that Trump had thrown in the bonus that he doesn't care about the wall right now.
Huckabee Sanders said: Nope, no agreement. Trump said the same thing in his tweets this morning: "No deal was made last night on DACA. Massive border security would have to be agreed to in exchange for consent. Would be subject to vote." He then tweeted a follow-up message: "The WALL, which is already under construction in the form of new renovation of old and existing fences and walls, will continue to be built." And then Trump pushed Congress to pass legislation protecting the immigrants but said he wanted big — that's in all caps: "BIG border security."
As he left the White House to go out to the helicopter to chopper to go to Air Force One to go down to Florida, Trump admitted that he was fairly close to reaching a deal with Chuck and Nancy that excluded the wall and that the Republican leaders are on board. Chuck and Nancy then released a statement around the same saying the president's tweets were "not inconsistent" with what they said. So Chuck and Nancy are backin' off a little bit from the original statement.
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My very first visit to the bloodbank. Always wanted to donate blood but it has never happened, so when I heard that Janet and Yongwei were doing it after the art jamming session, I jumped at the chance to tag along!
Virgin blood donor I am.
Almost passed out when I saw how thick the needle was.
The nurse who served me was very reassuring and nice. When she saw me fidgeting about trying to snap photos, she straightaway grabbed my phone and helped me to ('cos we weren't supposed to move much while the needle is in).
Then she returned me and said, "Nah, I took five for you." LOL so cute.
Aiya, people noob never donate blood before ma..
My pack of blood and moral supporters! They lao jiao already.
Our colourful bandages in C M Y but no K.
But hor, I've been feeling giddy and headachy ever since the donation, and was even down with slight fever and flu. I wonder if it's the major drop in iron levels or lack if rest after or I simply wasn't feeling too well to begin with. I think it might a combo of all three :\ Does anyone has similar experiences ah?


Mansfield Town's brave fightback fell just short as they were pipped 4-3 at home by Crewe in an a Sky Bet League Two thriller.
The fading play-off hopefuls are now eight games without a win, but battled hard after finding themselves 4-1 behind in a dismal first-half showing.
James Jones made use of time and space offered on seven minutes to drill home the opener from the edge of the box.
Three minutes later Conrad Logan saved a Jones shot only to see Jordan Bowery on hand to ram home from close range.
John Akinde scored two penalties either side of a Harry McKirdy goal to earn Barnet a 2-1 win against Crewe.
Akinde put the hosts ahead from the penalty spot in the 51st minute but they were pegged back in the 71st minute when George Ray looped a header to the back post and McKirdy was able to steer it in.
Barry Bennell, a former Crewe coach, was jailed earlier this year.
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Electric Universe – 1983
Produced by Maurice White and Wayne Vaughn for Kalimba Productions
Arranged by Maurice White and Jerry Hey
Review by RJM – Rating:
Years of being the kings of Black pop were taking its toll on Earth, Wind & Fire. A split was inevitable, even if they'd recovered from their early 80's slump. They'd been on top for most of the second half of the 1970's with little real competition. No one stays on top of the pop world forever. They could have concentrated on making quality music and certainly more jazz. Maybe stop touring so much, and occasionally slip in some gimmick to keep the bills paid.
Instead, 1983's «Electric Universe» is remembered as what finally finished off EWF. The crossover kings had finally crossed completely into a strange world of electronic-pop-dance-rock (for lack of a better phrase), the result being mostly indigestible. Band members' songwriting credits were now non-existent – even Maurice's credits were at an all time low. «Electric Universe» should have been titled «Maurice White and Friends Present EWF».
In terms of instrumentation, «Electric Universe» isn't among EWF's worst. Verdine was still an excellent musician, popping away at the bass, and guitarist Roland Bautista as proficient as ever. What else can be said about the phenomenal Larry Dunn? The vocal arrangements are very good with a real sense of urgency, but we expect no less of EWF. However, the really obnoxious part of «Electric Universe» are those darn synth drums and arrangements. These appear on every cut in the same form, including the ballads, where they're totally out of place – arrrrgh.
The theme of «Electric Universe» is computerized, futuristic music and lyrics. This project, including the cover art, seemed rushed, probably because it was the third release in 1983. Though the lead single, «Magnetic», charted, it was the first time since 1973 that no EWF single hit the top fifty from a given album. In spite of the advertising blitz, sales of «Electric Universe» were the poorest since 1972's «Last Days And Time».
«Magnetic», with its irrelevant video, was a clear sign of desperation. I would have responded infinitely better to «Magnetic» with the lead part of the chorus («the rhythm of a dangerous dance …» ) deleted. It keeps repeating, making me cringe every time I hear it. They made little effort in revamping the excellent «The Changing Times» and delivered it's musical carbon copy «Electric Nation». The Vaughns' «Sweet Sassy Lady» is the nail on the coffin.
There are some non-offensive tunes like «Touch», and the pretty ballads «Could It Be Right» and «Living In Our Own Time», but these were destined for oblivion. The arrangements on «Could It Be Right» are nice, so the cut suffers only from the identity it derives from «Electric Universe».
There's not one interlude here, which would have been welcomed to break the monotony. Like «Raise!», this work sounds more like itself than anything else EWF has done. I'm not sure it's a sell-out, but I am sure it's formula driven.
«Electric Universe» is the only EWF CD no longer in print. If one had to go, this had to be it. After this fiasco, EWF finally disbanded, and serious fans feared they were finished.
Not just yet!
RJM (revised)
Tracks in order of strength:
1. Could It Be Right
2. Living In Our Own Time
3. Touch
…and the rest:
4. Magnetic
5. Electric Nation
6. Spirit Of A New World
7. Moonwalk
8. Sweet Sassy Lady
Total playing time: 37:24
US: Columbia CK 38980
EUR: Columbia 463079-2
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No, I don't mean me, silly. Though I'll admit, I wasn't looking forward to this next play. On further review, methinks it may not have been terribly wise to kick off the year of Shakespeare with the Greatest Play Ever Eritten in the History of Humankind.
As they say, it's all downhill from here.
Yes, clever ones, I'm using football references today in honor of the NFL Conference Championships to be played tomorrow (or today, depending upon when you are reading this. It could also be Monday or perhaps even farther out there still — in the "far unlit unknown" as Neil Peart would say.) But I'd like to believe you and I are a bit nearer in space and time. Makes this whole internet thing a bit cozier, no? What can I say. It brings out the romantic dopey blogger in me.
Now that I've begun the text — and read the first act twice — I'm hooked. We'll see for how long.
My brother is a scientist — a rocket scientist to be more specific — but aside from being an avid Catholic convert, he's also a staunch Darwinian. I know, I know, it's rare, and odd, but it certainly leads to some interesting discussions.
I am reminded of this seemingly extraneous and anecdotal fact because he's often bringing up the anthropological roots of certain human behavior. I can hear him now pestering me about the higher biological cost to a male of female infidelity than the inverse. A woman obviously always knows that she's one of the parents. A man can only take his parentage by faith — at least back in the day before DNA testing.
The play starts so deceptively awkward and formal and deathly dull that I almost didn't want to believe it was Shakespeare. The King of Bohemia is paying a visit to the King of Sicily who wants him to stay a little longer. Blah blah blah.
Wait a second. The King of Bohemia has been on the road for how long? Nine months. Hmm… that's gotta be our friend Shakespeare at the controls here. So what exactly is going on?
The King of Bohemia only decides to hang around a wee bit longer at the coaxing of the queen. All in good fun, this teasing and banter, until suddenly, and seemingly unprovoked, the King of Sicily goes flying off the handle, feeling betrayed by his wife, a cuckold as they say. And, this being Shakespeare, what would be more appropriate then a little poisoned grog to make said problem go away?
Good thing Camillo, his servant, is a little more on the ball. He recognizes that his master has probably lost it, but nevertheless, he's now in a definite pickle. If he follows orders, he'll murder a man who he believes is innocent. If he fails to obey, his own head will fall.
Zing — conundrum! And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the makings of good drama.
I was more than a little worried here that Camillo would do the deed straight away, and that the play would dwell on the ramifications of a murder committed for the sake of overblown jealousy. Luckily, this isn't the case (at least not yet).
Camillo spills the beans to the King of Bohemia, who seems to be a really good guy. He heeds the warning, and promises that he'll leave tonight and take Camillo with him.
Mr. Asimov tells me in his introduction that this is one of Shakespeare's last plays that he wrote entirely by himself (if, you know, he actually wrote it. More on that some other time.). It is dated 1611, penultimate only to the likes of The Tempest, which we're saving till wayyyyyyyy later in the year.
I mention this because the language in this play is the most "natural" of any Shakespeare play I've yet read. I can't put my finger on why this is, exactly, but I sense it in just about every line. I could be reading a contemporary screenplay by a modern master of dialogue such as Shane Black, Zach Helm or Quentin Tarantino.
Linguistically, I love it. The plot has hotted up. I'm still afraid we're headed for the rocks, though, based on the dubious stature of the play.
But hey, at least we've started.
And now my blog entry has come full circle. If only there were a football-related way of saying that!
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Ok, so you are doing a fairly decent job of staying on topic for a hunter-gatherer. I just planted poppy seeds along the front edge of the property. It's a real test of my pastoral-agricultural lineage to wait to see it they take. 10,000 years of agriculture haven't completely eliminated impatience, it would seem. Of course, my hunter-gatherer wife can't even think about it without having a drink to get over the agony of waiting. Goes to show you.
I must have a baker who snuck in the linneage. I can't resist good bread. Poppyseeds, y'know, are very Hungarian (at least if recipes are any indication). You haven't lived until you've tried a Hungarian poppyseed roll. I used to make them with my grandma. They're godawful difficult to create from scratch, so I won't hold you to that. Thank goodness for Canter's on Fairfax. Throw a little money at the problem and voila!


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Steven Soph
A "superb vocal soloist" (The Washington Post) possessing a "sweetly soaring tenor" (The Dallas Morning News) of "impressive clarity and color" (The New York Times), tenor Steven Soph performs throughout North America and Europe.
The 2016-17 season marks Steven's return to The Cleveland Orchestra and Seraphic Fire for Stravinsky's Threni id est Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae; New York City's Voices of Ascension for arias in Bach's St. John Passion; the Chicago Chorale for Bach's B minor Mass; and the Bach Society of St. Louis for Mozart's Mass in C minor.
Recent seasons' highlights include appearances with The Cleveland Orchestra in an all-Handel program led by Ton Koopman; the New World Symphony and Seraphic Fire in Reich's Desert Music; Symphony Orchestra Augusta in Bach's B minor Mass; San Diego's Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra in Mozart's "Orphanage" Mass and Mass in C minor; and the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra in Handel's Messiah.
Described as an Evangelist "first-class across the board," (Chicago Classical Review) Steven performed with the Chicago Chorale in Bach's St. John Passion and St. Matthew Passion as well as at Boston University's Marsh Chapel in Bach's St. Matthew Passion.
Recent international performances include Festival Tage Alter Musik in Regensburg, Germany; Musica Sacra Festival, Maastricht, the Netherlands; and Festival Laus Polyphoniae, Antwerp, Belgium with Cut Circle in addition to Festival de Arte y Ópera Contemporánea in Morelia, Mexico with Roomful of Teeth.
Steven remains active with top American ensembles including twice-GRAMMY-nominated Seraphic Fire; GRAMMY Award-winning Conspirare; GRAMMY Award-winning Roomful of Teeth; GRAMMY-nominated True Concord Voices & Orchestra; Trident; Yale Choral Artists; Cut Circle; Santa Fe Desert Chorale; Colorado Bach Ensemble; Apollo Master Chorale of Minneapolis; and Spire Chamber Ensemble.
Recent recording credits include Académie du Disque Lyrique Orphées d'Or-winning "Guillaume Du Fay: The Tenor Masses" with Cut Circle, Seraphic Fire's "Steal Away," and tenor vocals on Maná's Latin GRAMMY Award-winning Best Pop/Rock Album "Cama Incendiada".
Steven holds degrees from the University of North Texas and Yale School of Music where he studied with renowned tenor James Taylor. Steven was a 2014 Carmel Bach Festival Adams Fellow and 2016 Oregon Bach Festival Vocal Fellow. www.stevensoph.com
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XHLM-FM is a radio station on 105.9 FM in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico. The station is owned by Organización Radiofónica Mexicana and is known as Radio Zoque.

History

XELM-AM 1240 received its concession on November 30, 1964. It was owned by Radio Chiapas, S.A. and broadcast with 1,000 watts day and 250 night. The station later boost its nighttime power to 1,000 watts, the last change before the AM-FM migration.

On February 15, 2021 "Romántica" changed its frequency to 99.3 MHz, replacing its sister station "Radio Zoque".

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Here's what's open and closed in Ottawa over the holidays in 2020
December 19, 2020 Canuck	Consumer, Is the beer store open Ottawa Christmas, Is the LCBO open Ottawa christmas, News, Ottawa Christman Eve hours, Ottawa christmas hours, Ottawa holiday hours, Ottawa holidays 2020, What's closed in Ottawa Christmas Eve, What's closed in Ottawa on Christmas, What's open in Ottawa on Christmas, What's open in Ottawa on Christmas Eve
The list of what's open and what's closed in Ottawa over Christmas, New Year's Day and the intervening holidays is bound to look a bit different in 2020.
Ottawa residents have been advised by the local public health unit to stick to their households over the holidays this year amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Ottawa will also be under the orange-restrict zone of Ontario's coronavirus reopening framework, putting certain restrictions on the businesses and holiday gatherings in the city.
Here's a list of what you can expect from the city, stores and service providers to close out 2020.
6:57 Expert tips to handle the most common holiday frustrations
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Grocery stores and department stores like Walmart and Costco are powering down for Christmas Day and reopening on Boxing Day. Hours vary by location.
All LCBO stores will be closed on Dec. 25, Dec. 26 and Jan. 1. Most LCBOs will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Dec. 24 and Dec. 31, though check the liquor retailer's website for specific store hours.
The Beer Store will close at 6 p.m. on Dec. 24 and remain closed on Christmas Day.
The following Beer Stores locations in Ottawa will reopen on Boxing Day from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.:
499 Terry Fox Dr.
1984 Baseline Rd.
548 Montreal Rd.
515 Somerset St. W.
The Beer Store will also close at 6 p.m. on New Year's Eve, remaining closed on the first day of 2021.
Ottawa's major shopping malls are open Christmas Eve (last-minute shoppers take note), closed Christmas Day and open once again on Boxing Day. Call any independent businesses for their store hours. Contact a specific drug store for their hours.
The Rideau Centre:
Christmas Eve: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Boxing Day: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
St. Laurent Shopping Centre:
Christmas Eve: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Place d'Orléans:
Boxing Day: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Bayshore Shopping Centre:
Tanger Outlets:
Christmas Eve: 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Looking for a way to kill time over the holidays? This is where things get tricky.
Due to current restrictions related to the novel coronavirus pandemic, Ottawa residents are limited in how they can spend their time and how many people they can spend it with.
Restaurants, for example, are limited to tables of four — preferably within your own household only — and must stop serving alcohol by 9 p.m., closing fully by 10 p.m.
Read more: Ontario's liquor-licensed establishments permanently allowed to sell alcohol with food delivery, takeout
Restrictions on businesses limiting the number of people allowed inside have held back multiplex chains such as Cineplex and Landmark from reopening their cinemas in Ottawa.
Anyone with a hankering to hit the movies over the holidays can still go to Cine Starz at the St. Laurent Mall and Place D'Orléans locations or the Mayfair Theatre.
Visit the ByTowne Cinema for one last flick before the cherished independent theatre closes permanently on Dec. 31.
Most museums remain a reliable holiday escape. One notable exception is the Canadian History Museum, which has been forced to close over the holidays due to stricter COVID-19 restrictions in Gatineau, Que.
While all municipal museums and galleries are closed over the holidays, the Rink of Dreams at city hall will be open every day from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., weather permitting.
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Check out a full list of local museum operating hours below. Assume regular operating hours unless otherwise listed.
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Canadian War Museum:
Dec. 25: Closed
Canadian Museum of Nature:
Dec. 24-25: Closed
Dec. 31-Jan. 1: Closed
Special seasonal openings on Dec. 21-22 and Dec. 28-29.
Canada Agriculture and Food Museum:
Dec. 24: 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Dec. 31-Jan. 1: 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Special seasonal openings on Dec. 29-30.
Canada Aviation and Space Museum:
Special seasonal openings from Dec. 26 to Jan. 3.
Canada Science and Technology Museum:
Dec. 31-Jan. 1: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Special seasonal openings on Dec. 28 and Dec. 29
National Gallery of Canada:
Dec. 26-27: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Jan. 1: 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Read more: Ontario students, educators should prepare for possible online learning after holidays
Holiday service runs from Dec. 21 to Jan. 1 at OC Transpo.
Transit routes will be affected as follows during the holidays:
Dec. 21-24: Reduced weekday schedule
Dec. 25: Sunday schedule
Dec. 26: Saturday schedule, with extra service on busy routes
Dec. 27: Saturday schedule
Jan. 1: Sunday schedule
Para Transpo will operate according to holiday service on Dec. 25, 26 and Jan. 1.
Service on Ottawa buses and light rail will be free after 8 p.m. on New Year's Eve.
OC Transpo encourages residents to celebrate the season only with members of their immediate household.
Holiday hours for OC Transpo's customer service centre at the Rideau Centre are as follows:
Dec. 24: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Jan. 1: Closed
Holiday hours for OC Transpo's customer service line are as follows:
Jan. 1: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The City of Ottawa's service centres at 110 Laurier Ave. W. and at Ben Franklin Place will be closed on Dec. 25 and Jan. 1.
Pools, arenas and fitness centres will operate on modified schedules during the holiday season. Check the recreation drop-in activities section for public swimming, fitness and public skating schedules.
All municipal child-care services will be closed on Dec. 25, Dec. 28 and Jan. 1.
All branches of the Ottawa Public Library will be closed on Dec. 25, Dec. 26 and Jan. 1; branches will close early at 3 p.m. on Dec. 24 and on Dec. 31.
There will be no curbside or multi-residential garbage, recycling or compost pickups on Dec. 25 or on Jan. 1. All scheduled Friday pickups will be pushed to Saturday over the holidays.
Similarly, the Trail Road Waste Facility will be closed on Dec. 25 and Jan. 1, reopening the following days.
Christmas trees will be picked up on your household's regular garbage day, but the city asks that all decorations be removed from the tree before disposal.
Read more: Ottawa Public Health setting up self-isolation site with $4.7M in federal funds
COVID-19 testing centres
Ottawa's COVID-19 assessment centres will operate on adjusted schedules over the holidays.
The Moodie Care Clinic will be closed Dec. 25 to 27 and Jan 2 and 3.
The Heron Care Clinic will be closed Dec. 23 to 27 and Jan. 1 to 3.
The Ray Friel Care Clinic will be closed on Dec. 25.
The Brewer Arena and CHEO Assessment Centre:
Closed: Dec. 25 and Jan. 1
Shortened days (8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.) on Dec. 24, 26, 27 and 31 and Jan. 2-3
Shortened days (8:30 a.m to 3:30 p.m., Brewer adult assessment centre only) on Dec. 28-31
National Arts Centre drive-thru testing centre:
Shortened day (8 a.m to 4 p.m.) Dec. 24 and Dec. 31
McNabb Community Centre:
Closed: Dec. 25-27 and Jan. 1-3
Shortened days (10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.) Dec. 24 and Dec. 31
Other Ottawa Public Health services
The supervised consumption site at 179 Clarence St. will be closed from Dec. 25 to 28 and Jan. 1 to 3. The program's mobile van will be closed on Dec. 24 but will operate from 5 p.m. until 11:30 p.m. from Dec. 25 to Jan. 3.
OPH's sexual health clinic and satellite clinics will be closed from Dec. 24 to 28 and Dec. 31 to Jan. 3. The clinic will be open for appointments on Dec. 29 and 30.
The Ottawa Public Health Information Centre will be closed for general calls on Dec. 25, Dec. 28 and Jan. 1.
OPH's COVID-19 phone line at 613-580-6744 will be open from 8:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 24, closed Dec. 25 and 26, open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Dec. 27, open from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Dec. 28 to Dec. 30, open from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Dec. 31 and closed Jan. 1.
The St. Laurent dental clinic will be closed on Dec. 25, Dec. 28 and Jan. 1.
OPH's baby helpline is closed on Dec. 25, 26 and 28 and on Jan. 1.
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Features	Published 9 December 2019
Theaters That Formed Us: A World Tour
Our critics remember the buildings, spaces, and theater companies which first introduced them to the stage.
Apollo Theatre (Photo: Rup11 (rup on wikipedia.de) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)])
While we may all review theater in New York City now, many of us came from somewhere else. Theater fans find their way to the stage whether they are born in small towns or big cities. For these Exeunt critics, these are the institutions that informed their early theatergoing years:
Open Air Theatre (Photo: TomJAnderson at English Wikipedia [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)])
Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, London
My family had an annual tradition of going to the Shakespeare productions at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park. Summer was not complete without an outing to this theater. My introduction to Shakespeare but also "proper" theater – that is not kids shows or school productions – happened out of doors. I saw most of Shakespeare's comedies there and even a memorable Henry V. But it was for me Twelfth Night that really came alive there as the garden atmosphere seemed perfect for Malvolio's attempted seduction of Viola in – a garden.
The cool London summers meant it was wise to take a blanket and an umbrella to be safe. That fresh air setting made it feel as though you had happened on a group of fairies in the woods, or some amateur actors dressed as a wall. During the early years, the seats at the front were old fashioned folding deck chairs adding to the feeling of improvisation. It was there under the trees waving in the breeze and the stars that I came to love the magic of theater. (Juliet Hindell)
Surflight Theatre (Photo: SurflightTheatre [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)])
Surflight Theatre
I grew up on the Jersey Shore, where a tradition of honest-to-goodness summer stock theater continues to this day. That tradition formed by first exposure to live performance at Surflight Theatre in my hometown of Beach Haven, New Jersey. I fell in love with theater sitting in a stuffy little auditorium a block behind the beach and watching actors not much older than me play everything from Mame to City of Angels to The Gin Game.
Surflight was founded in 1950 and spent its first two seasons performing in a tent, according to a helpful timeline on its website. My dad has told me stories of seeing shows there in the late 1950s, by which time it had moved into a former body shop. When it rained, the sound of precipitation splattering against the tin roof drowned out the actors. Things were a bit more polished by the time I came of age in the mid-to-late nineties, but the actors still rehearsed one show during the day while performing another show at night all summer. Grease would close on Sunday night, and the same company of actors would open Show Boat two days later. Watching the same actress who played Rizzo return as the Old Lady on the Levee taught me a lesson in suspension of disbelief.
On a personal note, Surflight is also the site of my only professional acting gig. When I was in sixth grade, I played one of the Cratchit kids in a holiday adaptation of A Christmas Carol. The experience taught me right away that I was meant to be on the audience side of the footlights, as I quickly grew to despise the repetition of performing the same material night after night.
Still, I'm grateful for that experience, and all the other wonderful lessons I learned at Surflight. The theater has had a rocky decade, including the deposition of its artistic director, a brush with bankruptcy, and the eventual reopening and reinstatement of its former leader. I confess I haven't been to see a show there in quite some time. But every time I pass by the theater on a visit home to my family, I'm glad that its doors are still open, and I hope there's a kid in the audience whose lifelong love of theater is being kindled as mine was twenty-five years ago. (Cameron Kelsall)
The Shanghai Grand Theatre in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. (Photo: Coolcaesar [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)])
The Shanghai Grand Theatre
This was where I saw my first live musicals: the very first one being The Sound of Music. I also went on class trips to see The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Le Petit Prince (the French musicals came to Shanghai and they are much more daring as far as I could recall.) The musical theater I grew up with consisted of Andrew Lloyd Webber (his 50th Birthday concert DVD is probably my first introduction to musical theater), as well as French musicals (the Canadian original arena production of Notre Dame de Paris starring Garou and Helene Segara is still my favorite of all time — not the Disney version mind you). (Ran Xia)
North Shore Music Theatre (Photo: User:Magicpiano [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)])
North Shore Music Theatre
While I grew up outside of Boston, I did not venture into the city much. So my first theater exposure came through NSMT. Founded in 1955, this 1700-seat theater in the round was putting on a mix of plays and musicals when I attended in the 90s. It was built originally as a tent theater and then was closed in.
I saw Shuler Hensley play Jud Fry in Oklahoma! (and Welcome Back Kotter star Ron Palillo as Ali Hakim) and their production of City of Angels (happening three years after it was on Broadway) made me fall in love with that musical as it combined my two loves–theater and movies.
They were a bit unusual because they produced shows rather than hosted touring productions. Sometimes a famous actor would be involved (Cy Charisse was in Grand Hotel when I saw it) but sometimes it was a lesser-known soap star. From old internet credits it looks like Kristen Chenoweth and Marc Kudisch did the Arthur Kopit/Maury Yeston musical Phantom (based on the novel of Phantom of the Opera) there in 1994. Rob Marshall directed Jodi Benson in Chess in 1991.
NSMT was most famous in those days for having a terrible parking lot which led some patrons to leave the show before it was over so they could get to their car and get out of the parking lot before the throngs.
In 2009, the theater went bankrupt and was bought by a local businessperson and revived. In 2017, under this new management they put on Evita with white actors in the leading roles (Constantine Maroulis as Che). After reading the article in the Boston Globe and the hostile comments from the new owner claiming they employed "colorblind" casting, I cannot say any warm feelings I had for the theater could really survive this retrograde bullshit. (Nicole Serratore)
The Wellington Summer Shakespeare
I'm from Wellington, New Zealand and The Wellington Summer Shakespeare is almost as old as I am. Started by the Victoria University of Wellington Drama Club with a production of Midsummer Night's Dream featuring punk fairies (in true 80s college student style) in the outdoor "quad" of the university, it has become a Wellington institution.
The annual outdoor performances of Shakespeare, with large casts of unpaid actors (mainly college students), to which everyone brings a picnic, a rug, and a bottle of wine are the sort of regular summer event that pretty much everyone goes to, even if they don't usually go to the theater, and that if you come from a family like mine, are practically obligatory.
From around age four, I had been determined to be an actor, but one of my most indelible theater memories is watching a different Summer Shakespeare Midsummer around—I think—age eight. I was transfixed by the actor playing Helena. I was the kind of little girl who was always drawn to the prettiest character and I would have expected myself to be enraptured by Hermia, but Helena had the audience eating out of her hand. I've no idea who she was, but she was brilliantly funny, warm, smart, and engaged and I just remember thinking, I want to be you.
The Wellington Summer Shakespeare continued to shape my theatrical life. I still haven't played Helena, but my first acting gig when I returned to New Zealand after 3 years in the U.S. for my MFA was the Chorus/Catherine in a Wellington Summer Shakespeare production of Henry V.
I'm more critical of the Summer Shakespeare now than I was as a wide-eyed and delightful eight-year-old, but it has been so formative a part of my theater experience that it is almost inseparable from my identity as either a theater maker or theatergoer. It has definitely cemented some of the feelings I have about always making theater for the audience (whatever that might mean for each production), mainly because of witnessing the wonderful alchemy of the outdoors, food, and drinks that joins the audience and performers together (human connection is half the point, right?) and allows even people who might normally find Shakespeare inaccessible to relax into the whole experience. (Alison Walls)
Indie Theater Scene in Shanghai
Both my parents worked (still work) in the literary, artistic industries so we were occasionally invited to productions at the Shanghai Drama School and throughout the independent theater scene in the city. Some of my fondest memories of theater experiences come from those places. I remember seeing a production of Othello where the entire set was basically a cube–standing at an angle (think the cube at Astor Place) hollowed out–and Desdemona spent pretty much the entire play inside. My mind is perhaps playing tricks but I remember having a visceral reaction to that aesthetic. I also remember seeing a one-woman opera, The Human Voice (based on Jean Cocteau's La voix humaine, which is a forty-minute, one-act opera for a soprano and orchestra composed by Francis Poulenc). Without understanding the text, the essence of the piece stayed with me and I think it without a doubt influenced my love for a solid solo performance that could exist in a liminal space.
Of course, there's also the wide variety of Chinese theater. In Shanghai, Pingtan was huge. Pingtan (评弹, originated from Suzhou, and was a big part of Thunderstorm 2.0 which I reviewed last year), translated literally to English means commentary and play (as in playing an instrument, in this case a Pipa). The two performers, mostly a man and a woman, would assume the role of storytellers; they could narrate, sing, orchestrate, and embody every character in classical tales. Chinese stand-ups (相声) and sketch comedies (小品) were also big parts of my theatrical upbringing if we dig deep. I cannot remember a single Lunar New Year's Eve when I wasn't laughing 'til I was wheezing. They were quite a risk for kids with asthma. (Ran Xia)
BATS Theatre (Photo: Kiwichris [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)])
BATS Theatre
Another long-standing Wellington theatrical institution is the reason I'm a fan of Peter Jackson, even though I find TLOTR films mind-numbingly boring and overstuffed (Heavenly Creatures, on the other hand, is superb). A few years ago, BATS Theatre, a tiny, uncommercial black box theater that has housed countless scrappy, weird, sometimes brilliant, and sometimes frankly abysmal little productions was under threat because it couldn't afford the necessary earthquake strengthening. Jackson and wife Fran Walsh footed the bill, and then some, adding in a newly renovated and larger rehearsal space.
The collaboration between Jackson and Weta Workshop (then just a husband and wife team of puppet makers) began as a similarly scrappy artistic endeavor and I think Jackson and Walsh understood that places like BATS is where many young artists test their work (among my BATS memories is paying $5 to see a comedic musical act, The Flight of the Conchords, by a couple of guys, Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement). Such places are a life source for the professional theater scene as a whole and especially important in a city like Wellington (i.e. in a small country at the bottom of the world) where theater can easily become too insular and stagnate. (Alison Walls)
Mark Taper Forum (Photo: Andreas Praefcke [CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)]
Mark Taper Forum
My family moved to a suburb outside of Los Angeles when I was ten. Before that, we lived in West Virginia and North Carolina and I didn't have much exposure to theater outside of church plays, a trip to New York where we saw Beauty and the Beast, and whatever backyard productions I dreamed up and forced my sister to star in.
I started going to Center Theatre Group a few years later on high school drama club field trips. Located at the Music Center in downtown L.A., the Ahmanson Theatre and the Mark Taper Forum sit on one side of an iconic fountain and the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion sits on the other. It's Los Angeles' Lincoln Center – New Formalism architecture and all – but downtown L.A. is a wasteland and the Music Center is an oasis. I remember riding the escalator up from the parking lot and taking in the plaza for the first time. I thought it was the most incredible place I'd ever seen and I still kind of feel that way. I never really "understood" Los Angeles or felt like it wanted me there, but I immediately and always felt at home at the Music Center.
Center Theatre Group, or CTG, runs the Ahmanson, Taper, and Kirk Douglas Theatres. The Douglas is ten miles away, in Culver City, the Ahmanson is mostly for touring productions, and the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is not run by CTG, so I don't really have much to say about them.
For me, the Taper is the ideal theatrical space. It is a circular building with seating that wraps around a thrust stage in a way that doesn't feel its size. The Vivian Beaumont and Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatres in New York have similar configurations, but both of those houses lack what makes the Taper so special. There is an immediate reciprocity between the actor on stage and the audience curved around them. The stage is like a hand offering up this little person to each and every one of us individually. The very space makes whatever's happening on stage better.
The first show I saw there was a Cy Coleman revue called Like Jazz that starred Lillias White. Other than White, it was mostly forgettable, but Like Jazz's existence is what brought me to this place I loved so much. I first read Angels in America shortly after that trip and gasped when I saw that it had had its pre-Broadway tryout at the Taper. After a renovation in 2007, they would soon start displaying the Millennium Approaches Tony Award by the bathrooms and I would stop just short of kissing the glass on my way to do my business.
CTG was the subject of an incisive piece of writing by Charles McNulty in the Los Angeles Times a couple weeks ago. McNulty decries the theater's management for its unimaginative programming, saying their recent seasons "[leave] the impression that the main task of an artistic director is Broadway shopping." Indeed, in my day, I saw some wildly fascinating productions at the Taper that were not exact transfers of whatever was successful in New York. Electricidad was a Los Angeles Latinx riff on Electra by Luis Alfaro where the chorus was a trio of older women sweeping their driveways. iWitness was a thrilling play about a conscientious objector in World War II that starred Gareth Saxe in a performance I still think about to this day. (My research shows me that apparently Katrina Lenk was also in this!) I saw Annette Bening, Alfred Molina, and Sarah Paulson in The Cherry Orchard. I attended the first preview of Jason Robert Brown's 13 and still say the Los Angeles version was much better than what eventually made it to Broadway. There was a production of Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore in 2010 that starred an unbelievably brilliant Chris Pine and a coup de théâtre where the entire stage was sloshed with blood and body parts in the briefest of blackouts.
I knew that whatever I'd see at the Taper would teach me something about my craft. I thought I wanted to be an actor during those years and my dream was always to take that stage. It feels like the most hospitable place for acting imaginable and I've never seen a bad performance there. Maybe it's my deep love for that place giving me rose-colored glasses, or maybe it's actually just a breathtaking building where real magic happens. (Lane Williamson)
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Hanoi, Viet Nam, January 2017—the Viet Nam Administration of Forestry (VNFOREST), TRAFFIC, WWF-Vietnam and the Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) have launched a joint project under the "Responsible Asia Forestry & Trade" (RAFT) Partnership to focus on sustainable forest management, supporting Viet Nam to strengthen its implementation of legal and responsible timber trade.
The project will help Viet Nam's burgeoning timber enterprises to boost their capacity to classify and identify legal timber for export to overseas markets.
Major export markets are increasingly requiring timber-producing countries to prove the legal origin of exported timber in a move to combat the flow of illegally harvested timber.
For example, the European Union (EU) developed the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan, under which exporting nations enter into Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) with the EU. Similar legislation to prevent illegal timber entering the marketplace already exists in Australia and the US.
The project is divided into two main components: promoting sustainable plantation management based on international standards and strengthening the implementation of responsible and legal timber trade. It also aims to create basic awareness about timber legality processes amongst manufacturers and businesses.
Initially, this will help create a market for responsible timber products in Viet Nam and bring benefits to the environment and society. It will also help combat illegal trade of timber, improve investment into the protection of Viet Nam's natural environment and enhance the reputation of the Vietnamese market.
The Viet Nam Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has set a target that at least 500,000 hectares of forests have been certified by 2020. Currently only 135,858 hectares are certified.
To help achieve this ambition, the project will identify forest areas that have the potential for certification, develop a forest-owner manual on plantation forest certification and sustainable forest management and support reviews of the State policy on promoting sustainable forest management.
"RECOFTC will make recommendations to help VNFOREST develop or revise at least one important policy to promote sustainable forest management," said Mr Luong Quang Hung, a representative of RECOFTC Viet Nam.
The RAFT partnership's work in Viet Nam is funded by the Australian Government through The Nature Conservancy organization (TNC), and will run until March 2018.


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WorldNetDaily tells us that the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) has brought a lawsuit against the passage of the health care bill H.R. 3590.
The law requires most Americans to buy government-approved insurance starting in 2014, or face stiff penalties. The AAPS says insurance-company executives will be enriched by this requirement, but it violates the Fifth Amendment protection against the government forcing one person to pay cash to another.The group also charges violations of the Tenth Amendment, the Commerce Clause, and the provisions authorizing taxation.
AAPS asks the U.S. District Court to enjoin the government from promulgating or enforcing insurance mandates and require Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue to provide the court with an accounting of Medicare and Social Security solvency.