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'Never would have imagined that my Dad and I would be raising our babies at the same time!' said actress Coleen Garcia.
Coleen Garcia's father welcomes baby girl
Photo credit: @coleen IG
There's a new addition to the Garcia family.
On Thursday, October 29, Coleen Garcia took to social media to announce that her father, Jose Garcia, recently welcomed a baby girl with his second wife.
My baby sister's trying to access Amari's milk stash, and he's not having it. lol Just want to share this testimony! Around March of last year, during worship at @favor.church, I was in tears after God so clearly told me that my Dad was gonna have another child, and that he was going to be given a new beginning. I felt Him say that things were gonna get crazy—in a good way, ofc. Don't know how to explain it, but it was so clear, specific, and out of the blue. I told everyone around me before telling my Dad (in the presence of our Connect group because I needed witnesses) 😆 For those who didn't know him before this season in his life, he was single for 15yrs and was always the most cynical person when it came to his personal life. So when I told him about God's plan for him, he didn't want to believe or accept it. Months after, he met the woman he ended up marrying, which was already a miracle on its own. Fast forward to today.. I guess this is the crazy part. 😝 Never would have imagined that my Dad and I would be raising our babies at the same time! But God's just awesome like that. Way-maker, miracle worker, promise keeper. ⭐
A post shared by Coleen Garcia Crawford (@coleen) on Oct 28, 2020 at 5:48pm PDT
In her post, Coleen said she predicted the arrival of her baby sister.
"Just want to share this testimony! Around March of last year, during worship at @favor.church, I was in tears after God so clearly told me that my Dad was going to have another child, and that he was going to be given a new beginning," said Coleen.
"I felt Him say that things were going to get crazy—in a good way, [of course]. Don't know how to explain it, but it was so clear, specific, and out of the blue. I told everyone around me before telling my Dad (in the presence of our Connect group because I needed witnesses)," she added.
According to Coleen, her father was single for 15 years before he met his second wife, and used to be so cynical when it came to his personal life.
"So when I told him about God's plan for him, he didn't want to believe or accept it," she said.
"Months after, he met the woman he ended up marrying, which was already a miracle on its own. Fast forward to today... I guess this is the crazy part," she added.
Coleen, who also recently welcomed her first child with Billy Crawford, Amari, said she never would have imagined that she and her father would be raising their babies at the same time.
"But God's just awesome like that. Way-maker, miracle worker, promise keeper," she said.
Coleen gave birth to her child via a home birth last September 10.
READ: Coleen Garcia, nanganak na
She and Billy first announced her pregnancy last March.
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Whatever Doesn't Kill You
by Greg Prince on 24 April 2017 11:14 am
I took strange comfort in Daniel Murphy's first-inning grand slam off Zack Wheeler Sunday night. Very strange, admittedly, but comfort nonetheless from looking at it this way:
What's the worst Daniel Murphy can do to the Mets with a given swing?
He can hit a grand slam.
Well, he already did that. That's a 4-0 hole courtesy of the guy who drills more of them at Citi Field than Deepwater Horizon ever did in the Gulf of Mexico. My counterintuitive thinking was if that's the worst Daniel Murphy can do, and the game isn't immediately ruled over, maybe we'll be not necessarily OK, but less dead than you'd suspect.
Even with Max Scherzer on the mound. Even with half the Mets unavailable or physically unfit for service. Even with the bloom off April's rose, the shine off expectations' silver and the telecast on ESPN. If Daniel Murphy has done his worst in a month whose sense of demise defies exaggeration…in a ballpark where doing his worst is Murph's standard operating procedure…how much worse could a Sunday night game that begins Nationals 4 Mets 0 become?
Surprisingly, no worse. Not tangibly better, mind you, as the Mets did go on to lose, 6-3, absorbing an eighth defeat in nine outings; getting swept by their ostensible archrivals; and falling 5½ lengths from first place, a position we could have sworn was their reasonably attainable goal this season.
Murphy hit a grand slam. Scherzer went eight and struck out nine. The Mets never led or fully contested the inevitable result. Nevertheless, it felt like it could have been worse.
After a stretch of 1-8 baseball, the Rheingold mug can be judged no more than 11.1% full, yet there was just enough to sip on and feel sated from within the context of relative doom. The pitch Zack Wheeler threw to Murphy was the last of 101 total to irreparably harm him. He settled down, gave the Mets seven innings and the Nats no more runs. His command was sharp, his pitch count was manageable and his return from two years gone continues encouragingly. Make no mistake: he gave up a four-run homer to the fifth batter of the game, and that will deflate your win probability pronto, but if we assume we're not smothering the rest of 2017 in a hastily flung towel, Zack's post-slam recovery is a very good sign.
The Mets demonstrated the difference between presumed dead and confirmed buried. Wheeler's efforts were made competitively worthwhile when Michael Conforto fired back immediately at Scherzer, leading off the bottom of the first with a homer and then notching two base hits at the stellar southpaw's expense besides. It was right around this time last year when another star hurler, Madison Bumgarner, confounded Conforto and halted his post-rookie joyride. Michael began rowing his boat onto the rocks of a sophomore slump which ended only when 2016 did. It's a year later. Bumgarner's the one whose decidedly nonmetaphorical conveyance has taken a spill, while Conforto may be making himself an immovable object from the top of the Mets order, lefty-lefty matchups be damned perhaps (though, Scherzer is, you know, a righty).
This potential next step in Conforto's steady transformation from bench caterpillar to lineup butterfly can be construed as another very good sign to emanate from yet another pretty bad night. As can Neil Walker stroking a two-run homer to push the Mets within one of the Nats in the third (though Walker producing half as many runs as his predecessor seems sadly apropos). As can the preternaturally gimpy but relentlessly game Asdrubal Cabrera withstanding a visit from the Grim Trainer in the first. As can Jeurys Familia tossing his first immaculate inning of the year, albeit an inning after Ryan Zimmerman sullied Josh Smoker's ledger with a messy two-run blotch. As can WOR's audio, via SiriusXM, syncing beautifully to ESPN's video while my remote's mute function maintained television silence. As can Yoenis Cespedes standing upright in the on-deck circle with a bat in his hands. Yo emerged in deference to the extremely remote chance Jose Reyes could extend a modest last-chance rally, which is to say there was one on with two out and the Mets down by three in the bottom of the ninth. Jose and his classic rock batting average — .104 on your dial — proved incapable of reprising any of the hits he used to be known for, but at least we had visual evidence that Cespedes lives and breathes and might even be ready to take another swing real soon.
As will the Mets. It's the best they can do.
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29 comments to Whatever Doesn't Kill You
Left Coast Jerry
April 24th, 2017 at 11:51 am
Greg, am I missing something? What "stellar southpaw" did Conforto touch for 3 hits. We're you watching the game in a mirror? Scherzer is right handed.
Last night's unfortunate 1st inning was set up by Eaton being barely grazed by a pitch and Turner beating the throw to first by a whisker.
Also, Zimmerman never would have hit in the 8th inning if Conforto had caught the ball off Harper's bat.
Greg Prince
Brain cramp, one side or the other. Will fix.
Crossed wires with Bumgarner in the next sentence I presume.
I have a theory. It goes like this. Remember how the Mets would often start strong back in underwhelming days of 2010, 2011, 2012, etc? Well, here's to the idea that this new and more complete version of Mets is fixin' to flip that script in 2017. They've finished strong the past two seasons and we all prefer it that way. It's early. Really early. As long as the Mets are back at the .500 mark at the quarter mark of the season and our pitching staff is healthy (as in no injuries to Thor, DeGrom, Harvey, Familia, Reed), I gotta believe this team will turn it around.
Conforto is a big positive – although probably not against authentic stellar southpaws.
Wheeler going seven – with six of them very strong – also a plus.
Familia foregoing bowling for dollars – deciding to throw strikes instead – – – more goodness.
Suggestion: send Gilmartin down, bring Matt Reynolds up (If Cabrera doesn't get a breather, he's headed to the DL as well. He can't play on crutches).
Otherwise Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?
The ESPN booth is comically bad. Jose Reyes, too, is comically bad. The skunk, TJ Rivera, looked crappy in his first start at 3rd, but if we are willing to watch Jose not hit, fumble hard hit balls, drop pop flies (even though that was 50/50 with Trav), make suspect throws to second, and read about his personal life perils on page 6, maybe its time to put Rivera back in. He only has one family, had a nice WBC, has hit over .300 at every level, and plays big league defense. Reyes doesn't need a day off, he needs a month off. The skunk will stink less, and just might start getting on base. If he gets a hair cut, he might even pull a pepe le pew and find some love at the corner. Hit or sit. We need base runners.
Lenny65
I don't want to go off on yet another rant about Reyes as I've made my feelings about him quite clear, but IMO it'd be a fine first step to kick him to the curb. The first step is admitting you have a problem, as they say. And Jose is definitely a problem. I just don't see what there is to lose by jettisoning him, whatever internal options they have can't possibly be any worse, as finding someone else to bat .100 shouldn't be too much of an issue.
The offense is a mess, but starting pitching has been very good. Still early, but sweeping the Braves would be a nice send off before the road trip.
K. Lastima
Bring Rosario up, move Cabrera to 3B, problem solved . . . however, the chances of the Mets doing that are exactly zero
P.S. – Someone please ask Gary Cohen if Murph is still a "net negative"
Bad moment for Cohen, but he's effusively praised Murphy a lot since then.
A fair amount of which, however, are "left-handed" compliments (pun intended)
Harvey Poris
Team Batting Average is now .210, 29th in majors (only KC at .206 is worse). Half of runs scored result from homers. You can't win too many games like that.
Pete In Iowa
I can't imagine how tough it must be to be a starting pitcher in the majors knowing you have to be damn near perfect to have any shot to get a win.
How many times over the past few years have top-shelf pitching performances gone for absolutely nothing? I really feel for those guys….
How can it be April and this team is making me lose sleep??????
The positives: Scherzer didn't pitch a perfect game; he had fewer than 72 strikeouts; Wheeler pitched well after he pitched badly enough to put the Mets in a hole they couldn't dig out of.
Negatives: the game was played.
Reyes. He's hitting about 60 points lower than Brad Emaus hit. Surprisingly, his OPS is lower than Bartolo Colon's was last year, but his slash line is almost identical to the combined performance of the current Mets pitching staff. Therefore, I recommend that Reyes become the long man out of the bullpen. As much as a pitcher wearing a single digit uni # makes me cringe, how much worse could it be than the contribution he's making now?
Jose always did have a strong arm.
Like when the Cubs drafted Dunston ahead of Gooden . . . he had the better arm
IMO it's time for a proverbial "wake-up call" and cleaning out Reyes' locker would be a dandy start. Send a message…"perform or go away"…maybe the rest of them will take heed. And even if they don't it's still addition by subtraction.
Waiting for the Reyes defender(s) to appear. You know, "just pressing," "always starts slow," "records proves he will hit at least .260, just wait." Although I guess they won't use "great character guy" or "just starting slow because he's distracted by news about being deadbeat dad and having second family, while abusing his wife."
Well, I'm certainly not looking to bait anyone, I mean it's just my opinion and I'd merrily eat my words if Reyes suddenly came to life. But I still wouldn't really trust him either. If he's going to bust out it needs to happen soon, this team doesn't have the luxury of waiting around forever, not the way they're going right now. And not a 2-4 day followed by another 1-30 spell either, anyone could do that.
Matt in Richmond
Everyone better hope Jose turns it around. For this team to play at its best, we need a productive Jose in the lineup 5-6 times a week. He's our best defensive option and our only speed. I'm admittedly reaching a little bit, but he actually had 2 good ABs yesterday, getting a clean single and working a full count after being down 0-2 before hitting a bullet to right. He still is popping up way too much, needs to cut down on the swing and concentrate on hitting line drives. I'm just repeating myself now, but while it's unrealistic to expect him to win another batting title or steal 60 bases, it's equally unrealistic to think he has completely forgotten how to play in the few months since sparking our playoff run last year. If he can't turn it around then he will lose more and more time, but 3 weeks into the season is too soon to be panicking.
For all the negatives, there are quite a few positives. This team was always mainly built around our starting pitching and that has been fantastic. The silly panic over Thor's blister amounted to nothing, the pessimism over Harvey's preseason struggles seems light years ago, Jake has his velocity back and has been fantastic other than his uncharacteristic walks last game and Zack looks healthy and has pitched far better than his numbers would indicate. How many teams would kill for anything close to to that much quality in the top 4? Now that Familia is back and TC has wisely gotten him some work to get the rust off, our bullpen will improve. This was a tough week with all the injuries, but I'd rather have bad luck in April than October. There's much to be positive about. I spent lots of time in 2015 and 2016 making similar comments while people were panicking and performing self-immolation left and right.
Matt, if you foresaw the successes of both Gsellman and Lugo last year, which put us over the top, then I tip my cap.
True. The Mets' 2016 WC berth wasn't like the Cubs-Pirates WC game in 2015. Unlike them, the Mets went on a highly unusual run late in the season concurrently with other WC contenders stumbling.
And TJ Rivera, who hit .358 in Sept (and even got hit in wild card game), vs. Reyes .234.
I was not trying to pat myself on the back or anoint myself some kind of Amazing Kreskin. Rather, I was trying to illustrate that this group has shown a real knack for overcoming adversity and playing some great ball after periods of struggle. I also feel that objectively there are quite a few positive early signs despite the terrible week we just had. Mostly, I wish more fans weren't so fair weather and didn't act as if the last 2 years didn't happen. It's disheartening that all it takes is one bad week for cynicism and pessimism to completely take over. Our rotation is stacked. Our bullpen will improve with the return of JF. Reyes and Granderson will either hit more or play less. We won't lose 4 key offensive pieces every week. Maybe it's not crazy to retain some optimism? That's all I'm saying now, and that's similar to many comments I made last year and in 2015.
10 more days like yesterday, and we'll be tied with Washington.
I like Conforto leading off for this season to keep his focus on getting on base with a good eye and a level swing rather than upper cutting for HRs. The HRs will come as a by-product of his hitting ability. He's no burner, but he's not slow and he's a good base runner.
If Reyes keeps struggling, the next step is hitters' rehab at AAA, not release. And if Rosario or another player (eg, TJ Rivera, Reynolds, or Cecchini) spark with the big club while Reyes is at AAA, that's too bad for Reyes.
D'Arnaud to catch Syndergaard Wednesday night ?
If so, this is a Collins "offense trumps defense" strategy. Hope it works out.
So now Gsellman is pitching tonite, so Harvey can face the Nats this weekend.
Bet you this decision came from Sandy, as this was a no-brainer in the first place, which should have been made originally and immediately by our own no-brainer as soon as the game was rained out.
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Cast Size: Male: 7 Female: 3 Ensemble: As many as possible Total Cast Size: 10 + ensemble, at least 16 more, plus two children.
Orchestra: 22, there are other arrangements including a two piano arrangement.
Recordings: Many. The original is very good, the film is well-recorded, there is a terrific studio recording with Jose Carreras and Kiri Te Kanawa, opera stars.
Film: A decent version, but the color coordination in the shoot came out poorly and hurts the film. Fairly true to the piece. A 2001 version for TV starred Glenn Close.
Awards: The Pulitzer Prize, 10 Tonys, including Best Musical, Best Male Performer (Pinza), Best Female Performer (Martin), Best Supporting Male Performer (McCormick), Best Supporting Female Performer (Hall), Best Director (Logan), Best Book and Best Score.
One of the real, genuine classics in the Musical Theater repertoire, with two fantastic starring roles, and interesting supporting roles, a gorgeous score that in some ways borders on opera and in other ways is pure musical comedy, but all in the service what must be considered a musical play. The script by both Hammerstein and Logan is professional and almost always effective. And it deals with serious issues in a way musicals tended to avoid earlier than this show.
It's a very large show, however, and its demands are significant. A good show for Universities and Colleges with large departments and orchestras. Dinner Theaters looking for a large cast show could try it out, but they must shrink the technical demands. Stock, semi-pro, regional and pro theaters with the budget and the will could do it.
It's big. A very big and rather expensive show. You'll need an older man to play Emile and mature woman for Nellie, so this is no show for a High School. Besides, the vocal parts call for mature voices.
Dealing with sexual subject matter rather frankly for a musical also moves this show away from performance by younger casts. Nurses need to look good, Nellie must be attractive and accessible enough to explain why men fall for her, and people have affairs in this show.
ACT ONE: An island in the South Pacific during WWII. Another volcanic island is visible across a small stretch of ocean, in the distance. Two Eurasian children, girl age 11, bot age 8, perform a little dance, in French and partly on a table top. ("Dites Moi") A servant leads them away just as Emile De Becque and Nellie Forbush enter. He is a French planter, she is a nurse with the American Navy, as she says, "a hick from the sticks" who is stationed on this island. He has shown her around his lovely plantation, and they sit for coffee. She goes on about how beautiful here, and that means the world can't be ending as so many people seem to believe. She declares herself "A Cockeyed Optimist". They sit and drink, clearly interested in each other, and we hear their private thoughts in "Twin Soliloquys", and he finally admits to her that "Some Enchanted Evening," he fell in love with her, though he is older than her. But her jeep arrives. He hurries to answer a question he asked – he left France because he murdered a man, a bully people were happy to be rid of. She hardly knows him, but she still trusts him. And she'll consider his proposal as she departs. Emile's children come out of hiding. They've been watching, apparently,. And play a game with him. They love each other.
A group of sailors and Marines (seebees) sing about how "Bloody Mary Is The Girl I Love". Mary is (per Hammerstein) a small, yellow woman with Oriental eyes. (She'll also need a big voice.) She is a bit of a con, selling cheap handmade goods and shrunken heads from her volcanic island to sailors. She is entertaining and popular with the sailors, though they do not trust her. A real operator, a seabee named Luther Billis, shows her handmade skirts that he and a few seebees made, superior to hers. They are competitors. He also runs an inefficient laundry. Then he sees a boar's tooth bracelet on Mary's arm, from the volcanic island, Bali Ha'i. He offers to buy it, and she asks a high price, but he can't help himself. Billis dreams of going to Bali Ha'i, where they have all sorts of native oddities. And as one sailor points out, on Bali ha'i there are also young French women, where French planters hide their women from the seebees. But only officers can sign out a boat. The men are desperate for women, because, well, "There Is Nothing Like A Dame".
The nurses run by in a group, exercising. Nellie asks Billis if he's done as she asked, and he hands her a package. It's something with pleats. He won't take money from her, however. Seems everyone loves Nellie. Mary rearranges the skirts she's gotten off Billis, as a young Lieutenant, Joe Cable, watches her. He's just been posted at the island, and has seen combat. She knows everyone, so Cable asks Mary if she knows Emile, and Billis chimes in that he thinks he's the French planter that lives at the top of the hill. Mary gives the handsome Lt. A free shrunken head, but he turns her down, though she is clearly taken with him. Billis realizes that Cable, an officer, might be his ticket to a boat, even as Mary sells the young man on "Bali Ha'i" and its beauty. Billis repeats the song badly in an attempt to persuade the man. The men suddenly assume nonchalant poses, as Captain Brackett and Commander Harbison enter, looking for Mary. He's angry because Mary is destroying the island's economy – planters can't get workers, they are all employed by Mary. Billis offers to make the trinkets Mary currently makes, which would free up labor and eliminate his competition. The Captain has Mary thrown off base. Cable speaks to the two officers, explaining that he's a Marine sent here because it's felt these islands are in danger, lacking first-hand intel. He suggests that one man with a radio hiding on one of the nearby Japanese islands could watch for Japanese ships headed their way, but that such a man would need to be snuck onto an island at night, and he, Cable has that assignment. He would like to go there with a man who knows the area, and he'd like Emile. And we find that Cable has started to be interested in Bali Ha'i. Billis signs out a boat in Cable's name, without asking the man. Cable then meets with Brackett, who has info on Emile DeBecque. He lived with a Polynesian woman for five years, had two children, she died, and he'd left France earlier because he killed a man. Cable thinks he might be handy. And so Brackett brings in Nellie, and they pump her for info on DeBegue. They ask her to spy on him, get to know him. She agrees to do it, and realizes that she doesn't know Emile very well. Harbison and Brackett discuss the mission, and they believe two men on the selected island would last about a week. They feel its worth the risk for the intel.
Cable speaks to Nellie, as she reads a letter from her mother. Her mom apparently disapproves of Nellie, and of Frenchmen. She throws the letter away, though Cable warns her she does not know much about De Becque. She's troubled.
On the beach, women are bathing at Billis Bath Club, in a tin tub shower. Billis personally gets Nellie's hot water, and she decides she's better off with sand and dirt in her hair. In fact, she's better off alone, as she declares "I'm Gonna' Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair". Only as she dries her hair, Emile enters, wondering if the song she was singing is some American ditty. He wonders why she's not responded to an invitation for dinner, to meet his friends, a party for her. She doesn't want to go, but he points out that she really doesn't know him well. She starts to interrogate him. He explains how he killed the man, and then asks her to marry him. They again sing "Some Enchanted Evening", she's in love, agrees to attend the party, and he departs. Her friends scoff – she sure washed him out of her hair! But she doesn't care, and declares "I'm In Love With A Wonderful Guy".
Emile meets with Brackett, Harbison and Cable, and says he can't go with Cable. He's in love, but he will also only fight for people who believe in freedom, and he's not convinced. Cable is given a few days off, and immediately thinks of Bloody Mary and Bali Ha'i. Next we see Billis and Cable on that island. Billis collects valuable trinkets, Cable looks over the women until Mary leads him to meet a beautiful, native 17 year-old girl, Liat. He is instantly in love. Mary leaves them alone, and to him, Liat is "Younger Than Springtime". Billis waits at the boat for Cable, and the man finally shows up, lost in a dream. Mary says he will be her son-in-law, as Liat is her daughter.
Emile's plantation house, as people depart the party. The lovers find themselves alone, she says she has to get back to base. But she stays., They reprise "Twin Soliloquys" and "Cockeyed Optimist". Then, two children sing "Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair" to her…and are finally introduced as Emile's. He explains that their mother passed away. And yes, their mother was Polynesian. Flustered, she decides to return to the base. She runs away.
ACT TWO: A week has passed.
On the base, a performance of "The Thanksgiving Follies," which Nellie has "directed." Various seebeas and nurses perform based on their unique abilities. The lights fail in mid-show, Billis' department. Emile shows up backstage and asks Billis where Nellie might be. She's on stage. Billis asks Emile to leave her alone, she's finally happy again, after asking for a transfer and being denied. Emile is determined to see her tonight, and waits. Cable approaches Billis and asks him to get a boat. He's feverish, ill. The Liat shows up backstage. (It's a bit much, yes…) Marty has brought her because a wealthy French planter wants to marry Liat, and Mary wants Cable to have her. Emile steps angrily in, pointing out that Cable is clearly ill. Cable finds it grimly amusing that Emile is worried about anyone but himself. Mary talks "Happy Talk", but Cable is troubled and gives Liat his watch to hold for him to remember him. Mary, furious, says Liat will marry the planter, now. He tells Mary he can't marry Liat.
On stage, Brackett introduces Nellie, who performs "Honey Bun". Behind stage, Nellie thanks Billis for flowers and he admits they're from Emile. Cable watches as Emile approaches Nellie, begging to talk. She tells him that she can't be with him, because of his affair with a Polynesian woman, her middle-class upbringing can't be worked around. She asks Cable, who is filled with self-loathing because of his own rejection of such a relationship, sing "You've Got To Be Taught" bigotry and hate from a young age. He asks De Beque to reconsider the assignment, and as both men have little to live for, they agree to go together to the Japanese island, to spy. Billis overhears them.
Brackett sits in his communication room and anxiously waits to hear from the two men, now planted on the island. He's interrupted buy the need to discipline Billis, who has cost the armed forces a small fortune by having a plane shot down. He hid in the plane that delivered the two men to the Japanese island, and was shot down by Japanese anti-aircraft, and had to be rescued. When Billis finds out that his rescue cost the Navy $600,000, even he is impressed. He's in serious trouble until it's pointed out that he acted as a distraction that allowed Cable and Emile to arrive safely on the island. Then the radio suddenly goes live with Emile and Cable's voices, with a full intel report.
Nellie meets with Brackett, and wants to know where Emile is. She's been to his plantation, and is worried about his children. And she keeps hearing reports about "The Frenchman" and his intel reports. Brackett lets her know the truth, even as Emile radios in to announce that Cable has died, and that he feels Japanese planes are now hunting him. He will need to go silent for a few days. On the beach, alone, Nellie sings "Some Enchanted Evening" and feels like a fool for letting her small town mortality intrude in her happiness. Mary interrupts her and asks where Cable is, telling her that her daughter Liat will not marry anyone but Cable. Nellie must give her the bad news.
A massive offensive is about to embark. Billis asks Brackett what's being done for Nellie's Emile, and offers to lead a rescue mission. They've already sent a mission in to extract him, but do not yet know if he made it out alive.
Nellie sits with Emile's children,. On the hill looking down at the beach, and describing the various ships there. They sing to her as they did to their father…when he shows up to sing with them. Happy ending.
As always, feel free to ignore or skip my opinions and rating. But if you do, and then you go down in the South Pacific, well, don't call to me for a life raft.
The closest thing to a three-star show that isn't three stars. The story has real dramatic power, Billis is a fine comic creation, there is some very entertaining material for those who do not want to think much. And for those who do want to think, South Pacific is a far better show than most musicals.
I believe that South Pacific is R & H's best show (along with The King and I), and that means it's one of the greatest shows ever written. If I had to pick one R & H to represent them, it would be this show.
Hammerstein is overall at his best here, with fewer mentions than usual in his lyrics to nature, though we still have those famed references to corn, in this case, "corny as Kansas in August." And by the way, what reason would a sky have for being a "bright canary yellow?" I'd be worried. But he does offer us fewer lyrics here about (literally) birds and bees than he will in any of his other major shows, for which I, at least, am grateful. The show also has a more mature book with more adult characters than usual for Hammerstein – that probably thanks to his collaborator, Logan, as well as the fact that the musical is adapted from an award-winning set of stories by a fine writer, Michener. I have strong opinions about Hammerstein's work. I think he was a great man, and did much to improve the quality of musical theaters, and open them up to more serious subjects. But as an actual craftsman, I often find his work more than a bit childish and off-putting. He is in better shape with this show that any other he wrote, in my opinion, though the book for King & I has a lot to recommend it.
The music is, I believe, the most beautiful and evocative Rodgers ever wrote for a show, and that is really saying something. No one composes more memorable songs, more romantic melodies, than Rodgers, and this show allowed a full expression of that part of his work.
A fearless show that attacks bigotry in several ways, as Hammerstein was often prone to do. I've always found South Pacific an emotional experience, and though I am generally burned out with R&H, this show, along with The King & I, are so superlative that they continue to move me to this day. Their deepest and most thoughtful show, with gorgeous melodies, and I believe a show that will survive for a long time.
By the way, little surprise that "Some Enchanted Evening" became the huge hit of the show. While accompanying a production, I looked over the score for the number of times that melody is heard, and I think it came out to 22 times. If you heard a song 22 times in a night, you'd walk out humming it, too.
This is a show that demands singers, trained singers with really fine voices. The score tends to be rich, melodic, and at times almost operatic. It is not a hard score to learn, not particularly a difficult score to play. But you will absolutely require a Musical Director with serious theater chops and an understanding of Rodgers and Hammerstein's brand of song. Your orchestra should be reasonably pro, but there are harder scores to play.
Nellie – Mezzo/alto, warm and inviting voice, great clarity with lyrics and melodies, must sing beautifully.
Emile – Classical, operatic baritone, warm, emotional voice but with size.
Bloody Mary – Mezzo/alto, rich, full voice, with lots of personality.
Lt. Cable – Tenor, full, romantic voice capable of expression.
Billis – Comic baritone, acting and character more important than singing chops.
Ngana – Mezzo child, a girl age 11, cast for singing and appearance. Should speak to be able to learn some French.
Jerome – Tenor, age 8, cast for singing and appearance. Some French.
Sailors – Baritones and tenors, good belt voices.
Nurses – Sopranos and altos, sweet upper registers, nice belts.
The seebees and the nurses do almost all the real movement in this show, along with Nellie. A Choreographer will want to focus on a few numbers, and let the Director take the others. The Choreographer should take on "Dites Moi", "Bloody Mary Is The Girl I Love", "There Is Nothing Like A Dame", "I'm Gonna' Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair", "Honey Bun". These numbers, along with a soft shoe at the top of Act Two, and a few reprises, should provide the show a sense of fun, of "theater", and of motion. This show can start to feel a bit stiff, even rigid, unless these numbers all do their work on the audience, and loosen up the show. Rodgers & Hammerstein and Logan were right to place these numbers, even if the sensibility of "Dame" and "Wash That Man" seem old-fashioned and either quaint or embarrassing today.
A Choreographer should know that this show will be cast for voices first. This also lets the Choreographer know that he/she will be staging some non-dancers, even in group numbers, and that he will need to get a good head start, as well as come up with movement that such talent does well. Also., there are traditional ways to do a few of these numbers, especially "Dame," and you move away from them at your peril. Usually the men prowl about the stage as if hungrily looking for something, and glare at the audience, walking, not dancing, posing and almost freezing for the chorus. Is this the only way this number can be done? Um, probably not, but maybe…? Pretty risky to throw out staging this well known.
Done traditionally, this cast is large, and an emphasis should be placed in almost every case of strong and trained voices. This is a musical that is really very largely about its music. If you haven't an excellent Nellie, don't bother to do this show.
Nellie – Lovely, from the Bible belt in America, mature, but restricted in spite of herself by the bigotries of her upbringing. An essentially loving and accepting soul. Must be beautiful enough to explain why men are drawn to her. Must move well. Cast for singing and look first, then acting, then dance, but she really must be a triple-threat. Note that Mary Martin was a great, big star even when she did this show.
Emile – The singing, that's where it all is for this character, though he must be a good actor, appear to be a French planter, and at least in his late 40s, though it's better if he's in his 50s, even his 60s, since he says that if he and Nellie have children, she will be raising them after he dies. His "advanced" age, in fact, is a part of the high stakes of the story. Must be attractive, physically strong in appearance. Cast voice and look, then acting. He does have quite a bit to do as an actor, by the way, but it's limited to just a few emotions overall, so this is sometimes cast with an opera star.
Bloody Mary – As described in the outline, and old enough to be the mother of a 17 year old beauty. Must appear Polynesian. Some of her pigeon-English dialogue may feel embarrassing. Some research should be done on the part of the actress to get this right, and make changes as needed in dialogue that really is questionable. Remember, she always chews beetle nuts – what would those do to her teeth? Cast for voice and look first, then acting. Must move a little.
Lt. Cable – Young, fit, All- American soldier, handsome. His voice must be a strong, evocative, young voice filled with passion. The romantic "juvenile" lead. Has a fair amount of acting to do. Cast for voice and look first., then acting. Does not need to move at all.
Billis – Comic lead, maybe in his 30s-40s, a con man extraordinaire, always looking for the angle. But also a romantic deep down, rooting for Nellie, even in love with her in his own way and willing to work his manipulative magic on her behalf. In fact, it seems he's willing to do almost anything for her. Cast for acting first, age and a look, then singing (which he must do well enough), and movement, as he will have some. Does not need to be a "dancer', however.
Captain Brackett – Speaking role, the man in charge of the base and local activities. A straight shooter looking at the big picture and willing to break some eggs. But like all the men in this piece, a softie deep down who is happy to allow Nellie to spend time with Emile and his children. 40s-50s.
Commander Harbison – Speaking role. Younger than Brackett, thoughtful, perhaps too much so at times. Picks up experience and lessons quickly, though.
Ngana – 8 year-old Polynesian/French girl, must look like she belongs on the island. Must sing, be cute, speak French.
Jerome –11 year-old Polynesian/French boy, similar to his sister.
Liat – 17 year-old Polynesian young woman, should be truly beautiful and desirable. Doesn't say much. Doesn't sing, doesn't dance. Cast for appearance, some acting.
Sailors – Seebees, must look like sailors, not chorus boys. Must sing, must move a bit, though it can appear stiff and ungraceful. Must do some acting, some have lines. These are men at war, young men far from home, and that must be communicated despite the "snappy" dialogue and singing and dancing.
Cast look and voices, then acting, then movement.
Nurses – Attractive, in their 20s, every sailor's dream, of different hair color, heights, and you name it. Must sing, must move decently though they don't really dance. Cast look and movement, acting, then voices.
The show must evoke Pacific Islands in the South Pacific, obviously. The main sets are the area in the base where Billis has his business, the beach, the Plantation (just one part of it, outdoors, overlooking the ocean), Brackett's Office/the communication room, the beach, and parts of Bali Ha'i. The Thanksgiving show will need to be performed on what will look like a hand-built platform, using wood from local trees.
Then there's the shower for the ladies, where clearly we cannot see anything!
This show provides some real challenges in terms of shifting sets and locations. All in all, I think it almost reads like a screenplay in this regard. The set demands are certainly one reason the show is not done often, and rarely by smaller theater groups. A Navy base, a plantation, a beach and a South Sea Island? Clearly these will need to be suggested rather than literal sets. I've seen productions use backdrops, but these flat representations also felt tike they flattened out the values of the locations, which should feel exotic, distant, and romantic.
I think the mood to be created by the sets is far more important than any information they might provide about locations we're already told about in nearly every scene. This show's strength is largely found in its two love stories, told in a distant and troubled, but romantic place. Hints of shapes and colors, a sense of an ocean, clouds, trees, will serve better than photographic realism. I've seen South Pacific done in the round, on essentially a bare stage/unit set,. And it worked well enough, but the actors and music really had to carry all the dramatic weight as the tech elements didn't help much. There are shows that benefit from a more experimental approach. I sort of doubt this is one of them, but a designer must work within the limits of his company's wherewithal. And for this show, recorded sounds can help. The cars and machines of the Navy base, polite birds at the plantation, wild jungle life on Bali Ha'i will help create a mood.
shower" can be rolled on and off, or even dropped from the rafters as a rectangular set of drapes.
If you have a proscenium stage, play the Thanksgiving show on the apron, in front of the main drape.
Brackett's office should basically consist of a hut, or suggestion of one, with a desk or two, a few chairs, and a military radio. These can perhaps largely be carried in and out by actors or crew, but it will need to be done very quickly. This set could also be set on a corner of the apron. Place an American flag, and the Navy flag, over his door.
We arrive at the two exotic settings, where all the romance occurs. The Plantation only needs to show the one outdoor view with some chairs, a small table, perhaps some vines and a tree or two hanging overhead, lush but gardened and organized, with the view of the ocean below, as indicated earlier. Keep this set uncluttered if you can, and simple. The vines and trees could be dropped from the ceiling.
Bali Ha'i is another issue altogether. An uncontrolled tropical island, perhaps with an ancient statue. A tribute to some ancient God, something like those found on Easter Island, which is a Polynesian Island.
A native Polynesian boat dragged up on the beach might also help differentiate this set. And remember, this is a volcanic jungle island.
Again, vines and trees, but more lush, less shaped, wilder, promising surprises. And the two volcanoes in the background, either just the foot of one eating up the back of the stage, or a suggestion of one on a backdrop or multi-media representation (though I don't think multi-media is right for this show). Somehow, make this volcanic Polynesian island feel like another world, one filled with mystery where anything might happen. As with Billis' goods, have Mary's goods carried on and off by her fellow natives, in her employ. Also, a thought – recorded bird and animal sounds for the island would make it "different". Fade them out in favor of music.
You will need to get creative about executing the needed sets without spending a fortune building them, and you will need to be equally creative determining the flow of the scenes to make sure there's no hold up while changing sets. If you have a proscenium stage, dropping the front drape and playing select scenes "in one", on the apron center, might make set changes behind the drape happen without delays and unkind blackouts.
An open stage will present more problems, unless you go unit stage, or can fly stuff on and off. Those are pretty much the options that I think work for this show.
Pick your color scheme carefully. Dull greens and blacks for the jungle-like sets could make Navy uniforms sort of vanish into the background, and that won't work. Besides, Jungles can have lots of colors in them., flowers and trees and insects can come in all sorts of diverse forms. And gun-metal colored walls for the military complex would be equally bad with such costumes. The dwellings used by the military should essentially feel native, made of trees, leaves, branches and the like.
This is a period piece, mid-late WWII. Military personnel should be in appropriate uniforms for a loosely-run Navy base in a tropical environment, with T-shirts visible in many cases. Shoes must be military issue.
Nurses had their own uniforms.
And native dress is specific, as well.
The point is, this period is easily researched for precision design and color choices. Get some color in, it's a musical.
All the grass skirts and shrunken heads and boar's tooth necklaces Billis and Mary peddle. Buckets for water, for the shower. Glasses and booze at the Plantation. The props for the Thanksgiving show, including coconut-bra for Billis, which will doubtless need to be constructed. Soldier's weapons. The military radio in the Captain's office. Flowers for Nellie. Some interesting articles, but not a horrible job.
The show passes quickly through moods and locations, and they should each have their own look. The Plantation on top of a hill and surrounded by tall trees would have different light than the base on the beach. You should use follow spots for the Thanksgiving show, to make it feel like a "show" in a show, but that means avoiding their use the rest of the evening, probably. Compensate by warming actors up in set key lights for solos and duets.
Hair must be right for the military men and women, circa WWII. Military men should not look made-up, not should Emile, these are manly men. Liat should be stunning, young and sexual. Nellie must look clean, scrubbed, wholesome. Emile must look his age, but handsome and well-preserved, a virile man, so we understand Nellie's interest in him.
Director, Musical Director, Choreographer, Set Designer, Costume Designer, Nellie, Emile, Cable, Bloody Mary, Billis.
This show is all about romance, but difficult rather than easy-to-accept romance. It trades on love-at-first-sight, for both love stories… but then, the Americans start to think twice and the relationships become rocky. This is a show largely about how we treat each other, and how we limit ourselves with our own biases. It won the Pulitzer in part because it is seriously about something. A director should understand the strong thematic spine of the show before starting. To emphasize this, design elements should stress differences. Costuming should make Emile foreign to Nellie, Americans foreign to native Polynesians. Sets should emphasize the differences, with Emile's place being civilized, a bit ornate, old school European to some extent. The American base is work-a-day, military, straight-forward, industrious. Bali Ha'i should feel ancient, primitive, wild. In this way, we step down from civilization progressively toward a more ancient way of life, and the look should change in the sets. Lighting can emphasize these qualities, as well, with Bali Ha'i being lit in saturated colors that make it feel wild, rich, old.
So the barriers that exist between the lovers are cultural, as well as barriers of age and bias. It cannot be easy for them to get together, so we will root for them.
Also, there's a real and terrible war occurring around them. The occasional sound of Japanese planes, even bombing in the distance, and people stopping for a moment to look up and respond, would help create this reality. Seeing that the soldiers, throughout Act II, are preparing to go to war, watching the camp militarize, grow increasingly organized, take arms, would also help.
The more that you can do to create a world that actually existed in the mid 40s, a real war where men really die and the stakes are high, the more that element can counter-balance the romantic aspects of the show. The romance will warm up the war, but the war will provide heat and danger to the romance. A very potent combination of qualities that can make this show feel fresh, alive, and different from any other show I can think of.
South Pacific could be the most wonderful of shows, if you have the resources and passion to get it right, to dig into interesting details and create the universe that was the South Pacific during WW II, while always getting the musical theater elements right, too. I'd try to keep the show reasonably low-tech, in keeping with the feel of the war, of the islands.
This was, not long ago, perhaps the most popular show in the Musical Theater repertoire. It could easily be again.


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Climate Change, Noncommunicable Diseases, and Development: The Relationships and Common Policy Opportunities
Sharon Friel, Kathryn Bowen, Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Howard Frumkin, Tony McMichael, K Rasanathan
The rapid growth in noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including injury and poor mental health, in low- and middle-income countries and the widening social gradients in NCDs within most countries worldwide pose major challenges to health and social systems and to development more generally. As Earth's surface temperature rises, a consequence of human-induced climate change, incidences of severe heat waves, droughts, storms, and floods will increase and become more severe. These changes will bring heightened risks to human survival and will likely exacerbate the incidence of some NCDs, including cardiovascular disease, some cancers, respiratory health, mental disorders, injuries, and malnutrition. These two great and urgent contemporary human challengesâ€"to improve global health, especially the control of NCDs, and to protect people from the effects of climate change would benefit from alignment of their policy agendas, offering synergistic opportunities to improve population and planetary health. Well-designed climate change policy can reduce the incidence of major NCDs in local populations.
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Q: Select distinct ID's We would like an SQL statement that lists the number of times a  unique IP/uniqueID pair has visited on any unique date ordered by the maximum numbers of times that the UniqueID/IP pair has visited.
Here is the table structure:
Column             Type
------------------------------
Date               Timestamp
NumberofUsers      smallint
ipaddress          varchar(16)
location           varchar(2)
Count              bigint(20)

Here is the sql we have been trying:
SELECT
  LicenseID,
  MAX(Date) AS LatestAccess,
  COUNT(DISTINCT Location) AS DifferentCountries,
  COUNT(DISTINCT IPAddress) AS DistinctIPCount,
  COUNT(DISTINCT Date,IPAddress) AS DistinctDate
FROM
  LicenseHistory
WHERE
  (LicenseID<>30002)
GROUP BY
  LicenseID
ORDER BY
  DistinctDate DESC

Here is some sample date from the table in CSV format:
2009-10-08 10:37,30002,8,24.108.64.80,CA,2399
2009-05-27 16:57,24508,50,24.108.64.80,CA,645
2008-11-06 12:04,30,100,24.108.64.80,CA,282
2008-02-04 10:51,24508,30,24.69.19.207,CA,62
2009-10-08 14:52,13136,5,24.108.64.80,CA,285
2013-05-13 13:10,718,10,66.251.68.106,US,23860
2008-02-12 11:10,30002,8,24.69.19.207,CA,36
2008-04-09 17:49,18504,10,70.90.32.57,US,121
2007-07-26 13:38,30002,8,76.226.201.191,US,2
2009-12-03 22:35,30002,8,196.25.255.214,ZA,14
2013-05-13 6:49,20341,4,66.232.201.125,US,2676
2007-07-28 23:57,30002,8,75.81.107.238,US,1
2007-07-29 10:39,30002,8,70.63.54.162,US,1
2007-07-30 3:53,30002,8,121.210.199.31,AU,4
2007-07-30 5:11,30002,8,41.207.67.10,KE,2

Here is some sample results (not correct yet, last column should not match second to last):
uniqueID  LatestAccess         DifferentCountries  DistinctIPCount  DistinctDate
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
20677     2013-05-13 18:20:15  4                   162              162
27749     2013-05-14 05:30:59  7                   155              155
459       2013-05-13 11:12:47  2                   143              143
24965     2013-05-14 13:44:56  6                   123              123
25226     2013-05-06 16:11:56  3                   104              104
20370     2013-05-14 05:54:04  4                   100              100

The problem I think is in the "COUNT(DISTINCT Date,IPAddress) AS DistinctDate" piece.

A: You need a COUNT DISTINCT. Here's a guess because there's no table structure provided:
SELECT
  VisitDate,
  COUNT(DISTINCT IPAddress, UniqueID) AS UniqueVisits
FROM MyTable
GROUP BY VisitDate
ORDER BY UniqueVisits DESC

Or if your visit date is a datetime or timestamp, cut out the time part with the DATE function (note the changes on the second and fifth lines):
SELECT
  DATE(VisitDate),
  COUNT(DISTINCT IPAddress, UniqueID) AS UniqueVisits
FROM MyTable
GROUP BY DATE(VisitDate)
ORDER BY UniqueVisits DESC

A: Your date format has a time in it.  So, I think all the dates are unique.  Try this:
SELECT
  LicenseID,
  MAX(Date) AS LatestAccess,
  COUNT(DISTINCT Location) AS DifferentCountries,
  COUNT(DISTINCT IPAddress) AS DistinctIPCount,
  COUNT(DISTINCT date(Date), IPAddress) AS DistinctDate
FROM
  LicenseHistory
WHERE
  (LicenseID<>30002)
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Q: Why is $(12345) = (54)(53)(52)(51)$? I'm trying to understand the concept of permutations being decomposed into transpositions in group theory. In Pinter's Book of Abstract Algebra pg. 83, he says
$(12345) = (54)(53)(52)(51)$
I just can't make any sense of this. The permutation $(12345)$ is the identity, right? So if I apply those transpositions to $(12345)$ starting from the right, I should end up with $(12345)$ again, correct?
When I write out each permutation in full, I get
$(52341)\\
(15342)\\
(12543)\\
(12354)$
But when I trace what happens to each of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, I end up with $(23451)$. For instance, 1 goes to 5, then 2, then 2, then 2. And 2 goes to 2, then 5, then 3, then 3. And so on.
He provides a number of other decompositions, and I get the same end result from all of them.
What am I doing wrong?

A: This is cycle notation, which is ideal for many types of calculations with permutations. For example, the notation $(1\,2\,3\,4\,5)$ stands for the transformation
that sends
$$
1 \mapsto 2 \mapsto 3 \mapsto 4 \mapsto 5 \mapsto 1.
$$
It's not unique. In fact, for a $5$-cycle such as this, there are $5$ ways to represent the permutation, depending on which one you put first. Also, any symbol that doesn't appear in a cycle is understood to be fixed by that cycle.
Now, permutations are bijective functions, so you compose them to form the permutation group. This is denoted by concatenation. For example, just composing the first two (reading from right to left, as you do with functions), let's calculate:
$$
(5\,2)(5\,1).
$$
Starting on the right, the first permutation maps $5 \mapsto 1$, then the second permutation leaves $1$ fixed. So in the composition, $5 \mapsto 1$. Repeating this for other elements, you can see that
\begin{align*}
&1 \mapsto 5 \mapsto 2 \\
&2 \mapsto 2 \mapsto 5 \\
&5 \mapsto 1 \mapsto 1
\end{align*}
Any other symbol is fixed (e.g. $3 \mapsto 3 \mapsto 3$ under the composition).
Thus,
$$
(5\,2)(5\,1) = (5\,1\,2)
$$
as cycles. With this understanding you should be able to reproduce the other calculations.

A: No, the permutation (1 2 3 4 5) is not the identity.  It is the cyclic permutation that sends: 1 to 2, 2 to 3, 3 to 4, 4 to 5, 5 to 1.
To simplify the explanation of decomposing into transpositions, let's instead use a simpler cyclic permutation: (1 2 3).  It sends 1 to 2, 2 to 3, and 3 to 1.
Now consider the product of transpositions: (1 3) (2 3).  It sends:
*) 1 to 3 to 2; i.e., ultimately, 1 to 2;
*) 3 to 1;
*) 2 to 3.
I.e., it has the same ultimate effect as permutation (1  2  3).
You will get a clear exposition to groups and, in particular, to permutations, from Part 1 of Abel's theorem in problems and solutions.


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Twenty years is a long time in business, particularly businesses as fast-moving as electronics and manufacturing. Over that timeframe we've witnessed rapid changes in technology, the rise of the connected world, changes in governments and global financial crises.
Throughout that time, the Southern Manufacturing and Electronics Show has remained a constant fixture in the calendar. So why has the show continued to grow and remain relevant over the 19 years of its existence?
One reason is that the base concept is simple – the creation of an accessible event that had real relevance for firms across the south. Location plays a large part. The exhibition's location is in Farnborough, at the centre of one of the most important areas for engineering and innovation in the UK. 22 percent of the UK's £20bn Aerospace industry is located in the south. The headquarters of BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin are a short walk from the show. 37 percent of the UK's medical technology workforce is employed in the south, with 32 percent of the UK's £3.16bn marine industry located within a 50 mile radius.
That's not even mentioning the M4's high-tech corridor and the large concentration of the UK's electronic companies that are based in the southern counties. All of those industries are supported by a network of suppliers, typically SMEs offering specialist components and engineering services, and it's these kinds of businesses that remain the focus of the show. This simple formula works for exhibitors and for visitors.
The growth of the event has seen exhibitors and visitors from Europe playing an increasing part in the show. I believe that over 90 percent of all businesses across the EU are classed as SMEs. So the show caters for the needs of the same kinds of exhibitors that it's always done, it's just that now our catchment area has spread a lot further. Visitors tell us that the diversity of the companies is one of the event's best features.
The prospect of Brexit may affect the diversity of the show and the industry generally. Since the referendum there has been a great deal of uncertainty over the precise implications for manufacturing. However, we have witnessed an unsurpassed surge from across the industrial supply spectrum in stand bookings since the vote.
Several economic factors seem to be favourably aligned, especially for the manufacturing sector. The low pound is adding a competitive edge to exports and the on-shoring movement, world economy forecasts for the year look encouraging and the UK's reputation for innovation and quality remain as high as ever.
Whatever happens post-Brexit, the UK's manufacturing and engineering expertise will remain in demand globally and a core contributor to the economy. I firmly believe the UK will still be an attractive market for European companies.
2017 will without doubt be an exciting year for the event with the promise of much more around the corner. Construction is underway by Farnborough International of its exhibition and conference centre. Taking place in early 2018, we will be the first organiser to schedule an event there.