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Fuzzy use of data undercuts marijuana arrests claim
Weed, pot, ganja, sticky icky, cannabis. Call it what you want, some statewide advocates want it called legal.
It was more than a month before 4/20 (Weed) Day, but supporters for legalizing marijuana were out in Atlanta recently making their case to rewrite the state's marijuana laws.Georgia has spent billions of tax dollars enforcing "draconian" and ineffective prohibition laws against marijuana, the supporters said during Cannabis Awareness Day at the state Capitol.
"In Georgia, more than 35,000 arrests occur for marijuana offenses each year. Eighty-five percent of those arrests are for possession, accounting for 55 percent of all drug arrests," James Bell, the director of Georgia C.A.R.E. (Campaign for Access, Reform and Education), said in a news release. "Today, March 14, about 100 people will be arrested for possession of marijuana in Georgia."
PolitiFact Georgia wanted to know whether that many people are actually being arrested each day.
For decades marijuana has been one of the most popular drugs in the nation, even for the most famous among us. Former President Bill Clinton admitted to smoking -- although not inhaling -- it while in college. And President Barack Obama supposedly ran around his high school with the Choom Gang of marijuana-smoking buddies.
In November, voters in Colorado and Washington state approved legislation legalizing marijuana for recreational use. The drug is already legal for medical use in 18 states. But marijuana remains illegal under federal laws, although Obama has said federal law enforcers have "bigger fish to fry" than chasing down marijuana users.
Georgia prosecutes marijuana offenses under its Controlled Substances Act, and it has various fines and punishments for growing, buying, selling and possessing the drug. (Georgia also passed its own medical marijuana law in 1980, but the law has never been implemented.)
Bell said his numbers are derived from estimates of FBI arrest data for the state of Georgia. Doing the math on his claim, 85 percent of the 35,000 annual arrests would equal 29,750 arrests for marijuana possession. Dividing that number by 365 days, equals about 81.5 possession arrests each day.
"We're fed up with the whole war on drugs," he said. His group wanted state lawmakers to consider revising the marijuana laws as part of criminal justice reform, but none of them sponsored any legislation.
We reviewed FBI crime data and found that marijuana accounted for 52.1 percent of all arrests for drug abuse violations nationwide in 2010. And 45.8 percent of those marijuana arrests were for possession. That marijuana arrests figure dropped a bit to 49.5 percent in 2011, with 43.3 percent of those marijuana arrests being for possession.
Marijuana policy researcher Jon Gettman forwarded to PolitiFact data he compiled from FBI data on the same subject. According to that data, Georgia's marijuana arrests were:
Year All marijuana arrests Marijuana possession arrests
2008 30,289 26,978
2009 33,200 28,892
2010 31,506 28,091
Gettman, a criminal justice professor at Shenandoah University, has also been a past president and national director of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
But calculating arrests is a tricky undertaking, Robert Friedmann, a criminology professor at Georgia State University, reminds us. Arrest numbers are nebulous, he said, depending on the way they are counted: Are multiple arrests for a single person counted individually? Do the numbers include local, state and federal activities? Do all jurisdictions report arrests?
An explanation of arrest data on the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program states that the report counts one arrest for each separate instance in which a person is arrested, cited or summoned for an offense. Because a person can be arrested multiple times, the FBI report doesn't reflect the number of people who have been arrested, but the number of times people are arrested.
So what's the skinny?
Marijuana legalization advocate James Bell said about 100 Georgians are arrested each day on charges of marijuana possession.
Bell's claim is based on FBI crime report arrest data. Using that data from the years 2008 through 2010, an average of about 28,000 possession arrests were recorded in Georgia each year. Dividing the average annual possession arrests by 365 days results in about 76.7 marijuana possession arrests each day.
Bell uses that arrest data to estimate the number of people arrested for the violation. But the FBI clearly states this type of estimation that Bell claims is not reflected in their numbers. Individuals can be arrested multiple times for the same infraction, so the FBI's arrest data indicate the number of arrests -- not the number of people arrested -- for any particular infraction.
Based on this explanation, Bell's claim seems to be up in smoke.
We rated Bell's claim Mostly False.


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I'm posting outside of a challenge today.
Recently, I posted a photo of a rainbow as part of a challenge (Curves) and a commenter liked it and we had a conversation. It turns out he hasn't seen many rainbows (perhaps because of where he lives and prevailing weather conditions).
I promised to post some so : Yousuf here they are! Enjoy. Why not visit his blog it has some great posts.


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When entire families are involved in serious car accidents in the state of Texas or anywhere else, determining fault can be an incredibly important and emotional step in moving forward. And in cases involving child accident victims, the need to hold guilty parties accountable for their actions can be overwhelming.
In the late summer of 2012, a vehicle carrying 12 people crashed into a road sign after flipping over near Marshall, Texas. Seven of the vehicle occupants survived their injuries, but five others died as a result of the single-vehicle collision. While it was not stated how many of the fatal accident victims were children, nine were reportedly in the vehicle at the time of the collision.
In December of last year, the surviving family members who were involved in the fatal car accident filed a lawsuit against the maker of the tires equipped on the vehicle. According to the suit, the fatal collision was caused by the tread belt on one of the tires separating. As a result, the defendant in the suit was accused of negligence and strict liability.
For their part, the tire company argued that others were responsible for the nature and severity of the fatal accident. The defendant claimed that only two of the 12 people inside the vehicle were wearing safety restraints when the collision occurred.
Successfully pursuing personal-injury claims can be a long and complex process. That is why accident victims and their families have the right to seek legal counsel at any time.
Source: rubbernews.com, "Texas family sues Cooper over fatal accident," Feb. 9, 2015


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Lesson One Hundred Sixteen: Simple Life And Cooperation In House-Keeping
Imam As-Sadiq (a.s.) said:
كانَ عَلِىٌّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلامُ يَحْتَطِبُ وَ يَسْتَقِى وَيَكْنِسُ وَ كانَتْ فاطِمَةُ تَطْحَنُ وَ تَعْجِنُ وَ تَخْبِزُ!
'Ali (a.s.) collected wood (for his home) from the desert and fetched water and did the cleaning, and Fatima (a.s.) made flour, and kneaded it and baked bread.1
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A world of magnificence of spirit and high human rank is hidden in this short tradition in respect of the great leader of Islam, Imam 'Ali (a.s.) and the role model for women, Fatima (a.s.) . Their life was very simple and independent but full of sincerity, purity, co-operation and assistance. Work was not a dishonor. Cooperation and understanding was considered a basic privilege and non-adornment was much admired. This lifestyle is no longer found in the homes these days and, consequently, tranquility and peace have disappeared.
- 1. Safinat'ul-Bihar, volume 2, page 195. Al-Kafi, vol 5, page 86. Men La Yahthruhu Alfaqih, vol 3, page 169. Wasa'il Al-Shia, vol 17, page 40. Awali Al-Laali, vol 3, page 200.
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For my card I used a digi called Merry Kiss-Mas Penguins, colored with Derwent pencils. Papers are from Maja design. Pearls and snowflakes are from local stores (xenos and action). And some glitter glue to finish the card.
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Raleigh, NC – The 2016 Reform Party nominee, Roque De La Fuente filed a lawsuit in North Carolina over the state's strict ballot access laws. North Carolina's ballot laws have an infamous reputation among minor party activists, and are among the strictest in the nation. To date less than five minor parties have gained ballot access in North Carolina, and only one, the Libertarian Party, was able to maintain it for a length of time.
In order for a party to gain ballot access, a party must obtain about 85,000 valid petitions. Because a percentage of the petitions will always be thrown out, a party trying to qualify must gather close to 120,000 petitions to succeed.
To maintain ballot access, a qualified party must obtain 5 percent of the vote in the statewide governor's race every four years. This means that during an election year, a party must expend a large amount of resources to gain ballot access, and exhausts them before it can campaign for governor. These laws, which the Reform Party of North Carolina argues is unconstitutional, succeed in keeping minor parties off the ballot.
The Reform Party of North Carolina hopes Roque De La Fuente's ballot access lawsuit will pave the way for laxer ballot laws, and break the establishment's stranglehold on the North Carolina ballot.
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Nike will soon take over as the official uniform and apparel provider of the NBA, WNBA, and G-League — but not yet.
As draft hopefuls went through workouts for NBA teams, they were outfitted in Adidas gear. The same was true for rookie/free-agent camp leading into summer league play. Multiple sources briefed on the NBA's uniform plans tell VigilantSports.com that teams will continue to wear Adidas uniforms and other gear through summer league.
On June 10, 2015, Nike agreed to an eight-year deal with the NBA, WNBA, and G-League to be their official supplier of uniforms and apparel. Adidas' contract is still in place, but that changes in the fall prior to the 2017-18 NBA season.
An email to a Nike spokesman was not immediately returned.
Nike will supply all 30 teams with uniforms and socks, in addition to other team apparel. It is a much-anticipated change for the players in the locker room — that is for certain.
There's a reason the Pacers' gift shop held a 50-percent off sale, and nearly all of the Adidas gear, including jerseys, are sold out. And team equipment managers are cleaning out their closets in preparation of the mass shipments to arrive. Orders were placed well in advance.
[Story from concept to the court — Pacers introduce new Pride uniforms highlighting Hickory from 'Hoosiers']
Nike will also become the first apparel company to have its logo on the NBA uniform. It will appear on the right side of the player jersey, just below the shoulder (and opposite a sponsor logo.)
"This partnership with NIKE represents a new paradigm in the structure of our global merchandising business," NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said back in 2015. "As our exclusive oncourt apparel provider, NIKE will be instrumental in our collective efforts to grow the game globally while applying the latest in technology to the design of our uniforms and oncourt products."


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Athol Fugard
Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard OIS (born 11 June 1932) is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in South African English. He is best known for his political plays opposing the system of apartheid and for the 2005 Academy Award-winning film of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood.[1] Fugard was an adjunct professor of playwriting, acting and directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego.[2] For the academic year 2000–2001, he was the IU Class of 1963 Wells Scholar Professor at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana.[3] He is the recipient of many awards, honours, and honorary degrees, including the 2005 Order of Ikhamanga in Silver "for his excellent contribution and achievements in the theatre" from the government of South Africa.[4] He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[5]
Athol Fugard
|Harold Athol Lannigan Fugard
11 June 1932
Middelburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa
|Playwright, novelist, actor, director, teacher
|South African
|South African and American
|UCT (dropped out)
|Drama, novel, memoir
|Notable works
|"Master Harold"...and the Boys
Blood Knot
|Sheila Meiring Fugard (m. 1956; div. 2015) Paula Fourie (m. 2016)
Personal historyEdit
Fugard was born as Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard, in Middelburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa, on 11 June 1932. His mother, Marrie (Potgieter), an Afrikaner, operated first a general store and then a lodging house; his father, Harold Fugard, was a disabled former jazz pianist of Irish, English and French Huguenot descent.[1][6][7] In 1935, his family moved to Port Elizabeth.[8] In 1938, he began attending primary school at Marist Brothers College.[9] After being awarded a scholarship, he enrolled at a local technical college for secondary education and then studied Philosophy and Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town,[10] but he dropped out of the university in 1953, a few months before final examinations.[1] He left home, hitchhiked to North Africa with a friend, and then spent the next two years working in east Asia on a steamer ship, the SS Graigaur,[1] where he began writing, an experience "celebrated" in his 1999 autobiographical play The Captain's Tiger: a memoir for the stage.[11]
In September 1956, he married Sheila Meiring, a University of Cape Town Drama School student whom he had met the previous year.[1][12] Now known as Sheila Fugard, she is a novelist and poet. The couple have since divorced. Their daughter, Lisa Fugard, is also a novelist.[13]
The Fugards moved to Johannesburg in 1958, where he worked as a clerk in a Native Commissioners' Court, which "made him keenly aware of the injustices of apartheid."[1] He was good friends with prominent local anti-apartheid figures, which had a profound impact on Fugard, whose plays' political impetus brought him into conflict with the national government; to avoid prosecution, he had his plays produced and published outside South Africa.[12][14] A former alcoholic, Athol Fugard has been teetotal since the early 1980s.[15]
For several years Fugard lived in San Diego, California,[16] where he taught as an adjunct professor of playwriting, acting, and directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).[2][14] In 2012, Fugard relocated to South Africa, where he now lives permanently.[17][18] In 2016, in New York City Hall, Fugard was married to South African writer and academic Paula Fourie.[19] Fugard and Fourie presently live in the Cape Winelands region of South Africa.
Early periodEdit
In 1958, Fugard organised "a multiracial theatre for which he wrote, directed, and acted", writing and producing several plays for it, including No-Good Friday (1958) and Nongogo (1959), in which he and his colleague black South African actor Zakes Mokae performed.[1]
After returning to Port Elizabeth in the early 1960s, Athol and Sheila Fugard started The Circle Players,[1] which derives its name from their production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, by Bertolt Brecht.[20]
In 1961, in Johannesburg, Fugard and Mokae starred as the brothers Morris and Zachariah in the single-performance world première of Fugard's play The Blood Knot (revised and retitled Blood Knot in 1987), directed by Barney Simon.[21]
In 1962, Fugard publicly supported the Anti-Apartheid Movement (1959–94), an international boycott of South African theatres due to their segregated audiences, leading to government restrictions on him and police surveillance of him and his theatre, and leading him to have his plays published and produced outside South Africa.[14]
Lucille Lortel produced The Blood Knot at the Cricket Theatre, Off Broadway, in New York City, in 1964, "launch[ing]" Fugard's "American career."[22]
The Serpent PlayersEdit
In the 1960s, Fugard formed the Serpent Players, whose name derives from their first venue, the former snake pit (hence the name) at the Port Elizabeth Museum,[14] "a group of black actors worker-players who earned their living as teachers, clerks, and industrial workers, and cannot thus be considered amateurs in the manner of leisured whites", developing and performing plays "under surveillance by the Security Police", according to Loren Kruger's The Dis-illusion of Apartheid, published in 2004.[23] The group largely consisted of black men, including Winston Ntshona, John Kani, Welcome Duru, Fats Bookholane and Mike Ngxolo as well as Nomhle Nkonyeni and Mabel Magada. They all got together, albeit at different intervals, and decided to do something about their lives using the stage. In 1961 they met Athol Fugard, a white man who grew up in Port Elizabeth and who recently returned from Johannesburg, and asked him if he could work with them "as he had the know-how theatrically—the tricks, how to use the stage, movements, everything"; they worked with Athol Fugard since then, "and that is how the Serpent Players got together."[24] At the time, the group performed anything they could lay their hands on in South Africa as they had no access to any libraries. These included Bertolt Brecht, August Strindberg, Samuel Beckett, William Shakespeare and many other prominent playwrights of the time. In an interview in California, Ntshona and Kani were asked why they were doing the play Sizwe Banzi is Dead, which was considered a highly political and telling story of the South African political landscape at the time. Ntshona answered: "We are just a group of artists who love theatre. And we have every right to open the doors to anyone who wants to take a look at our play and our work. ... We believe that art is life and conversely, life is art. And no sensible man can divorce one from the other. That's it. Other attributes are merely labels."[24] They mainly performed at the St Stephen's Hall — renamed the Douglas Ngange Mbopa Memorial Hall in 2013 — adjacent to St Stephen's Church, and other spaces in and around New Brighton, the oldest Black township in Port Elizabeth.
According to Loren Kruger, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago,
the Serpent Players used Brecht's elucidation of gestic acting, dis-illusion, and social critique, as well as their own experience of the satiric comic routines of urban African vaudeville, to explore the theatrical force of Brecht's techniques, as well as the immediate political relevance of a play about land distribution. Their work on the Caucasian Chalk Circle and, a year later, on Antigone[14] led directly to the creation, in 1966, of what is still [2004] South Africa's most distinctive Lehrstück [learning play]:'The Coat. Based on an incident at one of the many political trials involving the Serpent Players, The Coat dramatized the choices facing a woman whose husband, convicted of anti-apartheid political activity, left her only a coat and instructions to use it.[23]
The Serpent Players conceptualised and co-authored many plays that they subsequently went on to perform for a variety of audiences in many theatres around the world. The following are some of their notable and most popular plays:
- Their first production was Niccolo Machiavelli's La Mandragola, directed by Fugard as The Cure and set in the township. Other productions include Georg Buchner's Woyzeck, Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Sophocles' Antigone. When the group had turned to improvisation, they came up with classic works such as Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island, emerging as inner experiences of the actors who are also the co-authors of the plays.
- In The Coat, Kruger observes, "The participants were engaged not only in representing social relationships on stage but also on enacting and revising their own dealings with each other and with institutions of apartheid oppression from the law courts downward", and "this engagement testified to the real power of Brecht's apparently utopian plan to abolish the separation of player and audience and to make of each player a 'statesman' or social actor.... Work on The Coat led indirectly to the Serpent Players' most famous and most Brechtian productions, Sizwe Bansi is Dead (1972) and The Island (1973)."[23]
Fugard developed these two plays for the Serpent Players in workshops, working with John Kani and Winston Ntshona,[23] publishing them in 1974 with his own play Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act (1972). The authorities considered the title of The Island, which alludes to Robben Island, the prison where Nelson Mandela was being held, too controversial, so Fugard and the Serpent Players used the alternative title The Hodoshe Span (Hodoshe meaning "carrion fly" in Xhosa).
- These plays "espoused a Brechtian attention to the demonstration of gest and social situations and encouraged audiences to analyze rather than merely applaud the action"; for example, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, which infused a Brechtian critique and vaudevillian irony-–especially in Kani's virtuoso improvisation-–even provoked an African audience's critical interruption and interrogation of the action.[23]
- While dramatising frustrations in the lives of his audience members, the plays simultaneously drew them into the action and attempted to have them analyse the situations of the characters in Brechtian fashion, according to Kruger.[23]
- Blood Knot was filmed by BBC Television in 1967, with Fugard's collaboration, starring the Jamaican actor Charles Hyatt as Zachariah and Fugard himself as Morris, as in the original 1961 première in Johannesburg.[25] Less pleased than Fugard, the South African government of B. J. Vorster confiscated Fugard's passport.[6][26]
Later periodEdit
"Master Harold"...and the Boys, written in 1982, incorporates "strong autobiographical matter"; nonetheless "it is fiction, not memoir", as Cousins: A Memoir and some of Fugard's other works are subtitled.[27]
His post-apartheid plays, such as Valley Song, The Captain's Tiger: a memoir for the stage and his 2007 play, Victory, focus more on personal than political issues.[28][29]
The Fugard Theatre, in the District Six area of Cape Town opened with performances by the Isango Portobello theatre company in February 2010 and a new play written and directed by Athol Fugard, The Train Driver, played at the theatre in March 2010.[30]
Fugard's plays are produced internationally, have won multiple awards, and several have been made into films, including among their actors Fugard himself.[31]
His film debut as a director occurred in 1992, when he co-directed the adaptation of his play The Road to Mecca with Peter Goldsmid, who also wrote the screenplay.[31]
The film adaptation of his novel Tsotsi, written and directed by Gavin Hood, won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2006.[31]
In chronological order of first production and/or publication:[6][32][33][34][35]
- Statements: [Three Plays]. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press (OUP), 1974. ISBN 0-19-211385-2 (10). ISBN 978-0-19-211385-6 (13). ISBN 0-19-281170-3 (10). ISBN 978-0-19-281170-7 (13). (Co-authored with John Kani and Winston Ntshona; see below.)
- Three Port Elizabeth Plays: Blood Knot; Hello and Goodbye; and Boesman and Lena. Oxford and New York, 1974. ISBN 0-19-211366-6.
- Sizwe Bansi Is Dead and The Island. New York: Viking Press, 1976. ISBN 0-670-64784-5
- Dimetos and Two Early Plays. Oxford and New York: OUP, 1977. ISBN 0-19-211390-9.
- Boesman and Lena and Other Plays. Oxford and New York: OUP, 1980. ISBN 0-19-570197-6.
- Selected Plays of Fugard: Notes. Ed. Dennis Walder. London: Longman, 1980. Beirut: York Press, 1980. ISBN 0-582-78129-9.
- Tsotsi: a novel. New York: Random House, 1980. ISBN 978-0-394-51384-3.
- A Lesson from Aloes: A Play. Oxford and New York: OUP, 1981.
- Marigolds in August. A. D. Donker, 1982. ISBN 0-86852-008-X.
- Boesman and Lena. Oxford and New York: OUP, 1983. ISBN 0-19-570331-6.
- People Are Living There. Oxford and New York: OUP, 1983. ISBN 0-19-570332-4.
- "Master Harold"...and the Boys. New York and London: Penguin, 1984. ISBN 0-14-048187-7.
- The Road to Mecca: A Play in Two Acts. London: Faber and Faber, 1985. ISBN 0-571-13691-5. [Suggested by the life and work of Helen Martins of New Bethesda, Eastern Cape, South Africa.]
- Selected Plays. Oxford and New York: OUP, 1987. ISBN 0-19-281929-1. [Includes: "Master Harold"...and the Boys; Blood Knot (new version); Hello and Goodbye; Boesman and Lena.]
- A Place with the Pigs: a personal parable. London: Faber and Faber, 1988. ISBN 0-571-15114-0.
- My Children! My Africa! and Selected Shorter Plays. Ed. and introd. Stephen Gray. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand UP, 1990. ISBN 1-86814-117-9.
- Blood Knot and Other Plays. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1991. ISBN 1-55936-019-4.
- Playland and Other Worlds. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand UP, 1992. ISBN 1-86814-219-1.
- The Township Plays. Ed. and introd. Dennis Walder. Oxford and New York: OxfordUP, 1993. ISBN 0-19-282925-4 (10). ISBN 978-0-19-282925-2 (13). [Includes: No-good Friday, Nongogo, The Coat, Sizwe Bansi Is Dead, and The Island.]
- Cousins: A Memoir, Johannesburg: Witwatersrand UP, 1994. ISBN 1-86814-278-7.
- Hello and Goodbye. Oxford and New York: OUP, 1994. ISBN 0-19-571099-1.
- Valley Song. London: Faber and Faber, 1996. ISBN 0-571-17908-8.
- The Captain's Tiger: A Memoir for the Stage. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1997. ISBN 1-86814-324-4.
- Athol Fugard: Plays. London: Faber and Faber, 1998. ISBN 0-571-19093-6.
- Interior Plays. Oxford and New York: OUP, 2000. ISBN 0-19-288035-7.
- Port Elizabeth Plays. Oxford and New York: OUP, 2000. ISBN 0-19-282529-1.
- Sorrows and Rejoicings. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2002. ISBN 1-55936-208-1.
- Exits and Entrances. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 2004. ISBN 0-8222-2041-5.
- Co-authored with John Kani and Winston Ntshona
- Statements: [Three Plays]. 1974. By Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona. Rev. ed. Oxford and New York: OUP, 1978. ISBN 0-19-281170-3 (10). ISBN 978-0-19-281170-7 (13). ["Two workshop productions devised by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona, and a new play"; includes: Sizwe Bansi Is Dead and The Island, and Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act.]
- Co-authored with Ross Devenish
- The Guest: an episode in the life of Eugene Marais. By Athol Fugard and Ross Devenish. Craighall: A. D. Donker, 1977. ISBN 0-949937-36-3. (Die besoeker: 'n episode in die lewe van Eugene Marais. Trans. into Afrikaans by Wilma Stockenstrom. Craighall: A. D. Donker, 1977. ISBN 0-949937-43-6.)
- Films adapted from Fugard's plays and novel[31]
- Boesman and Lena (1974), dir. Ross Devenish
- Marigolds in August (1980), dir. Ross Devenish
- "Master Harold"...and the Boys (1984), Television movie, dir. Michael Lindsay-Hogg, first broadcast on Showtime[36]
- The Road to Mecca (1991), co-dir. by Fugard and Peter Goldsmid (screen adapt.)
- Boesman and Lena (2000), dir. John Berry
- Tsotsi (2005), screen adapt. and dir. Gavin Hood; 2005 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film[1]
- ""Master Harold"...and the Boys" (2010), dir. Lonny Price
- Film roles[31]
- Boesman and Lena (1974) - Boesman
- The Guest at Steenkampskraal (1977)[37] - Eugene Marais
- Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979)[38] - Professor Skridlov
- Marigolds in August (1980) - Paulus Olifant
- Gandhi (1982) - General Jan Smuts
- The Killing Fields (1984) - Doctor Sundesval
- The Road to Mecca (1991) - The Reverend Marius Byleveld
Selected awards and nominationsEdit
- Theatre[40]
- Obie Award
- 1971 – Best Foreign Play – Boesman and Lena (winner)[41]
- Tony Award
- 1975 – Best Play – Sizwe Banzi Is Dead / The Island – Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona (nomination)
- 2011 – Special Tony Award Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre (winner)
- New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards
- 1981 – Best Play – A Lesson From Aloes (winner)
- 1988 – Best Foreign Play – The Road to Mecca (winner)[41]
- Evening Standard Award
- 1983 – Best Play – "Master Harold"...and the Boys (winner)
- Drama Desk Awards
- 1982 – "Master Harold"...and the Boys (winner)
- Lucille Lortel Awards
- 1992 – Outstanding Revival – Boesman and Lena (winner)[41]
- 1996 – Outstanding Body of Work (winner)[42]
- The Audie Awards (Audio Publishers Association)
- 1999 – Theatrical Productions – The Road to Mecca (winner)[43]
- Outer Critics Circle Award
- 2007 – Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play – Exits and Entrances (nomination)[41]
- Honorary awards
- Writers Guild of America, East Award
- 1986 – Evelyn F. Burkey Memorial Award – (along with Lloyd Richards)
- National Orders Award (South Africa)
- 2005 – The Order of Ikhamanga in Silver – "for his excellent contribution and achievements in the theatre"[4]
- American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award [44]
- 2014 - Golden Plate Award
- Honorary degrees
- Yale University, 1983[45]
- Wittenberg University, 1992[46]
- University of the Witwatersrand, 1993[47]
- Brown University, 1995[48]
- Princeton University, 1998[49]
- University of Stellenbosch, 2006[50]
See alsoEdit
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Craig McLuckie (Okanagan College) (3 October 2003). "Athol Fugard (1932–)". The Literary Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 25 August 2008. Retrieved 29 September 2008.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- ^ a b "Athol Fugard". University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Archived from the original on 15 May 2008. Retrieved 1 October 2008.
- ^ Athol Fugard and Bruce Burgun (IUB theater professor) (29 September 2000). "Conversation On line with South African Dramatist Athol Fugard". Indiana University at Bloomington. Archived from the original on 11 September 2008. Retrieved 29 September 2008.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link) (RealAudio clip of interview.)
- ^ a b "Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard (1932 -)". 2005 National Orders Awards. South African Government Online (info.gov.za). 27 September 2005. Archived from the original (Web) on 21 November 2008. Retrieved 4 October 2008.
- ^ "Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved 4 October 2008.
- ^ a b c Iain Fisher. "Athol Fugard: Biography". Athol Fugard: Statements. iainfisher.com. Retrieved 1 October 2008.
- ^ Fisher gives Fugard's full birth name as "Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard", spelling Fugard's middle name as Lanigan, following Dennis Walder, Athol Fugard, Writers and Their Work (Tavistock: Northcote House in association with the British Council, 2003). It is spelled as Lannigan in Athol Fugard, Notebooks 1960–1977 (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2004) and in Stephen Gray's Athol Fugard (Johannesburg and New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982) and many other publications. The former spelling (single n) seems more authoritative, however, as it is also used by Marianne McDonald, a close UCSD colleague and friend of Fugard, in "A Gift for His Seventieth Birthday: Athol Fugard's Sorrows and Rejoicings" Archived 24 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of California, San Diego, rpt. from TheatreForum 21 (Summer/Fall 2002); in Fugard's National Orders Award (27 September 2005) from the government of South Africa, presented to "Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard (1932 –)"; and in his "Full Profile" in Who's Who of Southern Africa (2007).
- ^ Athol Fugard; Dennis Walder, ed. and introd (2000). The Township Plays. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. pp. M1 xvi. ISBN 978-0-19-282925-2.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link) (Google Books limited preview.)
- ^ "History: St Dominic's Prior School ... Marist Brothers College" (Web). St Dominic's Priory School. Retrieved 5 October 2008.
- ^ "Boesman and Lena – Author Biography". Retrieved 31 October 2010.
- ^ Albert Wertheim (2000). The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard: From South Africa to the World. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2000. pp. M1 215, M1 224–38. ISBN 978-0-253-33823-5. (Google Books limited preview.)
- ^ a b Sheila Fugard. "The Apprenticeship Years: Athol Fugard issue". Twentieth Century Literature. findarticles.com. 39.4 (Winter 1993). Retrieved 4 October 2008.
- ^ Alden Mudge (1 January 2006). "African Odyssey: Lisa Fugard Explores the Moral Ambiguities of Apartheid". First Person: Interview. Bookpage.com. Archived from the original on 11 October 2008. Retrieved 2 October 2008.
- ^ a b c d e Marianne McDonald (Professor of Theatre and Classics) (April 2003). "Introd. of Athol Fugard" (YouTube Video clip). Times Topics, The New York Times. Retrieved 1 October 2008.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link) [Times Topics menu includes link to UCSD YouTube clip of Athol Fugard's lecture, "A Catholic Antigone: an episode in the life of Hildegard of Bingen", Eugene M. Burke C.S.P. Lectureship on Religion and Society, University of California, San Diego (UCSD).]
- ^ Athol Fugard (31 October 2010). "Once upon a life: Athol Fugard". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 1 November 2010. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
- ^ Athol Fugard & Serena Davies (8 April 2007). "My Week: Athol Fugard". Telegraph.co.uk. London. Retrieved 29 September 2008.
- ^ "Athol Fugard Gets Personal In 'Shadow of the Hummingbird' At Long Wharf". Hartford Courant. 23 March 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
- ^ Samodien, Leila (17 July 2014). "Athol Fugard wins prestigious award". Cape Times. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
- ^ 2, Creative Feel (13 May 2016). "Congratulations Athol Fugard & Paula Fourie | Creative Feel". Creative Feel. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
- ^ Loren Kruger (2004). "Chapter 5: The Dis-illusion of Apartheid: Brecht in South Africa". Post-Imperial Brecht Politics and Performance, East and South. Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. M1 215–80. ISBN 978-0-521-81708-0. (Google Books.)
- ^ Mel Gussow (24 September 1985). "Stage: 'The Blood Knot' by Fugard". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2008.
- ^ "Athol Fugard: Biography". The Internet Off-Broadway Database. Archived from the original on 15 March 2009. Retrieved 2 October 2008.
- ^ a b c d e f Loren Kruger (2004). "Chapter 5: The Dis-illusion of Apartheid: Brecht in South Africa". Post-Imperial Brecht Politics and Performance, East and South. Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. M1 217–18. ISBN 978-0-521-81708-0. (Google Books limited preview.)
- ^ a b "'Art is Life and Life is Art'. An interview with John Kani and Winston Ntshona of the Serpent Players from South Africa", in Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies [Internet], 6(2), 1976, pp. 5–26. Available from: eScholarship, University of California. Accessed 26 July 2017.
- ^ Athol Fugard (1983). Notebooks 1960–1977. Craighall: A. D. Donker, 1983. ISBN 0-86852-011-X.
Back in S'Kop after five weeks in London for BBC TV production of The Blood Knot. Myself as Morrie, with Charles Hyatt as Zach. Robin Midgley directing. Midgley reduced the play to 90 minutes....Midgley did manage to dig up things that had been missed in all the other productions. Most exciting was his treatment of the letter writing scene – 'Address her' – which he turned into an essay in literacy...Zach sweating as the words clot in his mouth....
- ^ Dennis Walder, "Crossing Boundaries: The Genesis of the Township Plays", Special issue on Athol Fugard, Twentieth Century Literature (Winter 1993); rpt. findarticles.com. Retrieved 4 October 2008.
- ^ Albert Wertheim (2000). The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard: From South Africa to the World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. M1 225. ISBN 978-0-253-33823-5. (Google Books limited preview.)
- ^ Brian Logan (28 July 2007). "Finally, It's Personal". The Times. London. Retrieved 1 October 2008.
[Fugard's] plays helped to end apartheid, but it's Athol Fugard's own life that now inspires his work.
- ^ Charles Spencer (17 August 2007). "Victory: The Fight's Gone Out of Fugard". The Telegraph. London. Retrieved 1 October 2008. [Theatre review of Victory at the Theatre Royal, Bath.]
- ^ Dugger, Celia W. (13 March 2010). "His Next Act: Driving Out Apartheid's Ghost". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 24 March 2010. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
- ^ a b c d e "Filmography" in Athol Fugard at AllMovie. Retrieved 3 October 2008.
- ^ Iain Fisher. "Athol Fugard: Plays" (Web). Athol Fugard: Statements. iainfisher.com. Retrieved 1 October 2008.
Some of his plays are grouped together. Sometimes this is based on the subject matter (the Port Elizabeth plays), sometimes it is based on a period and style (the Statement Plays). ... But no category is complete, and there is overlap (The Township and The Statement Plays) and some plays do not easily fit into any categories.
- ^ Fisher observes in the Fugard "Biography" section of Athol Fugard: Statements that South African writer and critic Stephen Gray classifies many of Fugard's dramatic works according to chronological periods of composition and similarities of style: "Apprenticeship" ([1956–]1957); "Social Realism" (1958–1961); "Chamber Theatre" (1961–1970); "Improvised Theatre" (1966–1973); and "Poetic Symbolism" (1975[–1990]).
- ^ Stephen Gray, ed. (1991). File on Fugard. London: Methuen Drama. ISBN 978-0-413-64580-7.
- ^ Athol Fugard; Stephen Gray, ed. and introd (1990). My Children! My Africa! and Selected Shorter Plays. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press. ISBN 1-86814-117-9.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- ^ Master Harold...and the Boys at AllMovie. Accessed 3 October 2008.
- ^ The Guest at Steenkampskraal at AllMovie. Accessed 4 October 2008.
- ^ Meetings with Remarkable Men at AllMovie. Accessed 3 October 2008.
- ^ "STIAS Fellow Athol Fugard receives prestigious 2014 prize". Stellenbosch University. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
- ^ A list of Fugard's Broadway theatre award nominations may be found at the IBDB. "Athol Fugard: Awards". Internet Broadway Database. Archived from the original on 4 March 2007. Retrieved 1 October 2008.
- ^ a b c d "Athol Fugard: Award Nominations; Award(s) Won". The Internet Off-Broadway Database. Archived from the original on 15 March 2009. Retrieved 2 October 2008.
- ^ "Lucille Lortel Awards Archive: 1986–2000". Lortel Archives. Archived from the original on 21 March 2009. Retrieved 2 October 2008.
- ^ "The Audie Awards: 1999" (Web). Writers Write, Inc. Retrieved 2 October 2008.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Athol Fugard Biography and Interview". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
- ^ "Yale University: Honorary Degree Honorands: 1977–2000" (PDF). Yale University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 October 2008. Retrieved 4 October 2008.
- ^ "Honorary Degree Recipients: 1948–2001". Wittenberg University. Archived from the original on 14 August 2007. Retrieved 4 October 2008.
- ^ "Honorary Graduates: 1920s to 2000s" (Web). University of the Witwatersrand. Archived from the original on 3 August 2008. Retrieved 4 October 2008.
- ^ "News release 94–185" (Web) (Press release). Brown University News Bureau (Sweeney). 24 May 1995. Retrieved 4 October 2008.
- ^ "Honorary Degrees Awarded by Princeton University: 1940s to 2000s" (Web). Princeton University. Archived from the original on 21 September 2008. Retrieved 4 October 2008.
- ^ Zeninjor Enwemeka (21 April 2006). "Stellenbosch honours Athol Fugard". IOL. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
- The Amajuba Resource Pack. The Oxford Playhouse and Farber Foundry: In Association with Mmabana Arts Foundation. Oxford Playhouse, October 2004. Accessed 1 October 2008. Downloadable PDF. ["Photographs by Robert Day; Written by Rachel G. Briscoe; Edited by Rupert Rowbotham; Overseen by Yael Farber." 18 pages.]
- Athol Fugard. Special issue of Twentieth Century Literature 39.4 (Winter 1993). Index. Findarticles.com. <http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0403/is_n4_v39>. Accessed 4 October 2008. [Includes: Athol Fugard, "Some Problems of a Playwright from South Africa" (Transcript. 11 pages).]
- Blumberg, Marcia Shirley, and Dennis Walder, eds. South African Theatre As/and Intervention. Amsterdam and Atlanta, Georgia: Editions Rodopi B.V., 1999. ISBN 90-420-0537-8 (10). ISBN 978-90-420-0537-2 (13).
- Fugard, Athol. A Lesson from Aloes. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1989. ISBN 1-55936-001-1 (10). ISBN 978-1-55936-001-2 (13). Google Books. Accessed 1 October 2008. (Limited preview available.)
- –––, and Chris Boyd. "Athol Fugard on Tsotsi, Truth and Reconciliation, Camus, Pascal and 'courageous pessimism'....", The Morning After: Performing Arts in Australia (Blog). WordPress. 29 January 2006. Accessed 4 October 2008. ["An edited interview with South African playwright Athol Fugard (in San Diego) on the publication of his only novel Tsotsi in Australia, 29 January 2006."]
- –––, and Serena Davies. "My Week: Athol Fugard". The Telegraph, 8 April 2007. Accessed 29 September 2008. [The playwright describes his week to Serena Davies, prior to the opening of his play Victory at the Theatre Royal, Bath (telephone interview).]
- Gray, Stephen. Athol Fugard. Johannesburg and New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982. ISBN 0-07-450633-1 (10). ISBN 978-0-07-450633-2 (13). ISBN 0-07-450615-3 (10). ISBN 978-0-07-450615-8 (13).
- –––, ed. and introd. File on Fugard. London: Methuen Drama, 1991. ISBN 0-413-64580-0 (10). ISBN 978-0-413-64580-7 (13).
- –––. My Children! My Africa! and Selected Shorter Plays, by Athol Fugard. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1990. ISBN 1-86814-117-9.
- Kruger, Loren. Post-Imperial Brecht Politics and Performance, East and South. Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-521-81708-0 (10). ISBN 978-0-521-81708-0 (13). (Google Books; limited preview available.)
- McDonald, Marianne. "A Gift for His Seventieth Birthday: Athol Fugard's Sorrows and Rejoicings". Department of Theatre and Dance. University of California, San Diego. Rpt. from TheatreForum 21 (Summer/Fall 2002). Accessed 2 October 2008.
- McLuckie, Craig (Okanagan College). "Athol Fugard (1932–)". The Literary Encyclopedia. 8 October 2003. Accessed 29 September 2008.
- Morris, Stephen Leigh. "Falling Sky: Athol Fugard's Victory". LA Weekly, 31 January 2008. Accessed 29 September 2008. (Theatre review of the American première at The Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles, California.)
- Spencer, Charles. "Victory: The Fight's Gone Out of Fugard". The Telegraph, 17 August 2007. Accessed 30 September 2008. [Theatre review of Victory at the Theatre Royal, Bath.]
- Walder, Dennis. Athol Fugard. Writers and Their Work. Tavistock: Northcote House in association with the British Council, 2003. ISBN 0-7463-0948-1 (10). ISBN 978-0-7463-0948-3 (13).
- Wertheim, Albert. The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard: From South Africa to the World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-253-33823-9 (10). ISBN 978-0-253-33823-5 (13).
- –––, ed. and introd. Athol Fugard: A Casebook. [Casebooks on Modern Dramatists]. Gen. Ed., Kimball King. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997. ISBN 0-8153-0745-4 (10). ISBN 978-0-8153-0745-7 (13). (Out of print; unavailable.) [Hardcover ed. published by Garland Publishing; the series of Casebooks on Modern Dramatists is now published by Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis, and does not include this title.]
External linksEdit
- "Athol Fugard". Faculty profile. Department of Theatre and Dance. University of California, San Diego. (Lists Athol Fugard: Statements: An Athol Fugard site by Iain Fisher as "Personal Website"; see below.)
- Athol Fugard at AllMovie
- Athol Fugard at the Internet Broadway Database
- Athol Fugard on IMDb
- Athol Fugard at the Internet Off-Broadway Database (IOBDb)
- Athol Fugard at Times Topics in The New York Times. (Includes YouTube Video clip of Athol Fugard's Burke Lecture "A Catholic Antigone: An Episode in the Life of Hildegard of Bingen", the Eugene M. Burke C.S.P. Lectureship on Religion and Society, at the University of California, San Diego, introduced by Professor of Theatre and Classics Marianne McDonald, UCSD Department of Theatre and Dance, April 2003 [Show ID: 7118]. 1:28:57 [duration].)
- Athol Fugard at WorldCat
- "Athol Fugard Biography" – "Athol Fugard", rpt. by bookrags.com (Ambassadors Group, Inc.) from the Encyclopedia of World Biography. ("2005–2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.")
- "Athol Fugard (1932– )" at Britannica Online Encyclopedia (subscription based; free trial available)
- "Athol Fugard (1932– )" – Complete Guide to Playwright and Plays at Doollee.com
- Athol Fugard: Statements: An Athol Fugard site by Iain Fisher. (Listed as "Personal Website" in UCSB faculty profile; see above.)
- "Books by Athol Fugard" at Google Books (several with limited previews available)
- "Full Profile: Mr Athol 'Lanigan' Fugard" in Who's Who of Southern Africa. Copyright 2007 24.com (Media24). (Includes hyperlinked "News Articles" from 2000 to 2008.)
- "Interviews: South Africa's Fugards: Writing About Wrongs". Morning Edition. National Public Radio. NPR RealAudio. 16 June 2006. (With hyperlinked "Related NPR stories" from 2001 to 2006.)
- Lloyd Richards (Summer 1989). "Athol Fugard, The Art of Theater No. 8". Paris Review.
- "Athol Fugard" in the Encyclopaedia of South African Theatre and Performance
- Nancy T. Kearns collection of Athol Fugard materials, 1983-1996, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts


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Le Tan Flawless Legs Deep Bronze Vs Sally Hansen Airbrush Legs Deep Glow
You can see there isn't much difference colour wise but you can see that the Sally Hansen has more coverage of the two
Out of the two I prefer the Le Tan because:
- It's cheaper
- It's Aussie made & owned
- I wore this last weekend on a fancy boat for a work function with a white lacey dress & none of it came off onto the dress


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Aleguzzler Gargants are a type of Gargants, known both for their destructive impulses and for being permanently intoxicated on alcohol.[1]
They are drunken brutes, tromping around the realms destroying bits of the landscape or uprooting any trees they find suspicious. Stupid and quick to anger, anything that leaves them a slightly bit confused them will send them into a destructive rage. However, their memories are also very limited and as such they forget why they were destroying and just continue for the fun of it.[1]
They will go into combat wearing improvised weapons, like tree-trunks, statues or even livestock. Not that they have any problem in using their enormous, horse-sized feet capable of leaving craters wherever they stomp. If these gargants find any interesting objects or person they will hurl, crush, chomp it or, unfortunately, shove it down their filthy trousers. They can stomp to death whole regiments or bash down dreadhold walls with their clubs.[1]
Do their permanent drunkenness their feet are also unreliable, never able to walk in a straight line, often tripping over if they walk fast and crushing anybody or anything that happens to be on their path. They have special difficulty traversing ruins and towns, staggering through the streets, damaging roofs and stomping wagons. A falling gargant is extremely dangerous, sending warriors scattering screaming in all directions, with those not quick enough to get out of the way are buried under tons of greasy hair and unwashed flesh. The fortunate ones are killed instantly, while the lesser fortunate spent their last moments suffocating under their huge sweaty armpits.[1]
There are many tales and rumours from the Age of Myth that tell off the origins of the Aleguzzler Gargants in the Mortal Realms:
- The bacchic descendants of a prehistorical gargant tribe that once wandered throughout the realms.[1]
- Some believe they were once a race of wise and strong builders that helped the Free Peoples construct cities and empires. It was said that they once stood at Sigmar's side and the wisest belonged to his councils, helping him during the age of expansion and prosperity.[1]
- Others believe they are the descendants of Behemat, a Zodiac Godbeast rumoured to live in Ghyran. Once mighty forest-warriors and woodland kings whose empires stood in every realm and stretched over the horizon. Coarse and slightly bestial, their pursued civilisation up to a certain point as they weren't partial to excessive clothing and lacked personal hygiene.[1]
- Some legends say they are the refugees of a destroyed world that settled in the realms, drowning their sorrows of losing their land in copious amounts of booze.[1]
Its common for greenskins and ogors to take advantage of their size and trusting nature, by concocting the most stiff and despicable beverages in wagons-loads in order to lure these gargants into helping their armies and smashing their foes.[1]
- The Grampy Gargant is one of their drinking songs.[1]
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Most medical issues today are credited to the abundant measure of pesticides in the vegetables and natural products you eat. While you need to dispose of these chemicals, no technique for washing appears to be 100 for each penny secure. What's more, going for natural sustenance is everything you can do. Notwithstanding, seeing whether the vegetables and natural products you purchase are natural is exceptionally troublesome. Rather than succumbing to items utilizing "natural" as only a showcasing contrivance, here are 5 simple hacks to discover if the vegetable and organic products you purchase are really natural.
They will be little in size
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They die quicker
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A positive, proactive and results-driven Senior Marketing Professional with a highly successful background in the achievement of profitable business growth through the development and execution of successful marketing strategies. Experienced in working with leading brands in the competitive technology and consulting industries with the primary focus on exceeding expectations for market growth, whilst ensuring optimum brand impact.
Demonstrated Capabilities:
·Strong general management track record of winning market share and developing new regions.
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·Strong track record in establishing and maintaining industry-leading channel partner relationships.
·Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; leadership, high integrity.
Responsible for providing professional assistance to start-ups and SME businesses to develop innovative and cost effective marketing and growth strategies – plus integrated programs to bring their strategies to life. Projects include message and communication development, integrated marketing & digital programs, channel management and brand awareness for clients in Israel, Germany and MEA.
·Successfully developed and implemented a messaging and branding strategy for a new technology company in Israel.
·Successfully developed for a client in the Middle East a marketing strategy to position and strengthen its appeal within the regions competitive technology market.
·International Marketing & Digital Strategy for a leading manufacturing company in Germany
·Developed a digital strategy for a European CRM consulting practice.
·Developed a channel & distribution program for a European software company.
Developed and implemented the EMEA Marketing Services Group, central to the marketing strategy of the EMEA region.
·Successfully merged 2 teams for interdisciplinary teamwork – resulting in productivity increases of 21% over two years and an increase in customer satisfaction from 7 to 9 of 10 points.
·Identified logistics cost reductions and redefined organisational relationships to ensure goals were achieved.
·Implemented integrated marketing strategy, which were responsible for the increase in brand awareness; achieved significant exposure to the FTSE 100 companies and enhanced relationships at Partner and CEO levels.
·Directed the design, development and implementation of SAS Forum International; the largest Business Intelligence Conference outside of the US. 2,600 attendees from 43 countries; increasing the sales pipeline impact of the annual conference by 21% to $170m
·Responsible for marketing budget planning and control for 7 million Euros.
·Developed and implemented a regular series of industry-specific reference materials which gained excellent feedback from the sales force.
·A member of the World Wide on-line marketing strategy implementation team, with responsibilities for ensuring that the strategy addressed and resolved conflicting viewpoints
·Consultant to the Asia Pacific business ensuring local contractors delivered consistency of design and implementation of message.
From 2006 Business Development Director, Bettermanagement.com (Portal owned by SAS)
·Developed business relationships with the top European Business Schools and management consultants to provide thought leadership content for the portal.
2003 – 2005 EMEA PR Manager
·Developed media initiatives for SAS solutions capabilities and ensured that the key messages were reflected in all our press and media activities across the region.
·2004 Stevie Award winner for Best Financial Services Direct Mail
Responsible for developing and executed the marketing plan and specific programs to support the business growth strategy including: branding, PR/media, social media, point of view, event marketing, marketing research, direct marketing, internal communication, case studies, and sales tools.Regional responsibility for the Nordics, Middle East, South Africa, Rest of Africa, Russia & CIS and CEE.
·Successfully developed strategic marketing initiatives for Data Integration solutions that contributed 35% year-on-year revenue growth for the region. Revenues reached record levels in 2008.
·Introduced a closed loop marketing process to achieve annual marketing sourced pipeline of $10m.
·Developed with the Business Unit leadership BU positioning and messages with compelling content as appropriate.
·Company spokesperson at conferences; liaising with the media and industry analysts.
·Reengineered operations planning process to achieve better assessment of business opportunities and track results, leading to greater alignment with our partners.
·Developed a strategy to implement on-line marketing campaigns across the region.
Developed and implemented the Global Solutions Centres, central to the marketing strategy of the Financial Solutions Group (FSG). The centres in London, Dundee, Dayton (US) and Waterloo (Canada) provided senior management with a dedicated capability to showcase NCR's world class integrated solutions and thought leadership to CEO's and IT Directors from existing and potential financial customers.
·All centres became operational within 2 years of project commencement and were delivered to agreed time scales and budget.
·Co-ordinated capital investment project planning and gained approval for $3.9m project spend.
·Led member of the product implementation team, with responsibility for ensuring that the solutions capabilities installed in the centres reflected our current market position regarding E-Commerce.
·Facilitated and directed through the Legal department; contracts and consultants agreements.
·Reviewed and co-ordinated the development of multimedia presentations, ensuring the content adhered to the agreed marketing messages and solutions offerings.
·Consultant to the Asia Pacific business ensuring local contractors delivered consistency of design and implementation of a product centre in Beijing (China).
Managed the business functions of the newly created Marketing & Communications unit. Regional responsibility for the development and implementation of all internal and external communication programs.
·Reengineered operations planning and logistics processes; which achieved improved customer segmentation and defined target contacts.
·Identified and developed new business processes to improve quality and customer satisfaction. Resulted in revenue increase from £100K to £1m in 2 years.
·Identified logistics cost reductions of 20% and redefined organisational relationships to ensure goals were achieved.
·Led the Formula 1 and World Championship of Golf sponsorship programmes which were critical elements in the overall integrated marketing strategy. The programmes were responsible for the increase in brand awareness; achieved significant exposure to the FTSE 100 companies and enhanced relationships at Partner and CEO levels.
·Promoted to Regional Marketing Manager; UK & Ireland, South Africa and Scandinavia.
·Winner of the Global Integrated Marketing Award in 1995 and 1996.
·Transferred best practices as EU consultant to the French, German and Benelux practices
·Facilitated and negotiated terms and conditions for external suppliers' appointments; which achieved increased value for money and improved supplier relationships.
·Developed financial recording procedures, which improved control and monitor of costs.
·1996 Global Integrated Marketing Award winner
·1995 Global Integrated Marketing Award winner
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Well this DC Government property has been on this blog since January 2014 and 2 years later it looks like it is getting fixed up and may join the land of the living. According to the DC Property Tax database the DC government purchased this thing back in September 2004.
old 2014 post, you can see from the photo that the building was boarded up, with peeling paint and the yard was a mess.
So if the government got it in 2004 and waited until 2016 to do something, something being sell it or have a non-profit or a developer do something, that's 12 friggin years of being an eyesore, and nuisance. Twelve years.
Is it me or does 12 years seem too long?
Well I'm glad this and possibly the neighboring property are possibly coming back to use as someone's home. Finally.
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A snug & secluded cottage,
offering short-term holiday rental accommodation
in Australia's Snowy Mountains region.
Located on a quiet bend of the Little Plains River 27km southwest of Bombala in the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales, Cochabonddu cottage is in an area well known for trout fishing and platypus viewing.
The Little Plains River, part of the Snowy River catchment, is arguably one of the best rivers in the Southern Monaro / East Gippsland, with good flows year-round.
Cochabonddu is in a rural river valley and former goldfield, well away from main roads, with broad views of the bush and rolling hills. The Cottage is only a stone's throw away from the river which can be seen and heard from the house.
Ideal for fishing and outback getaways, this is a recently renovated and fully furnished two-bedroom cottage retreat comfortably sleeping up to five people in two bedrooms - one with a double bed, the other with queen-size bed and a single. Fresh linen is supplied; just bring your own food.
This fully self-contained cottage has a gas stove in the kitchen, wood and electric heating, bath and shower with gas hot water system, tank and river water, and indoor toilet. Verandahs front and back are perfect for informal meals or just relaxing, bird watching, wildlife viewing and listening to peaceful rural sounds.
The cottage and nearby farm have separate access over a kilometre from the main road, with good bush walking possibilities and nearby National Parks to explore.
The cottage comfortably accommodates up to five visitors and is surrounded by a pleasant garden.
Approached by its own private road, the secluded location is tranquil, the air is fresh, and on a clear night the starry skies are breathtaking.
Being in the Snowy Mountains region, in winter the weather can dip below zero and snow is not unknown. A fireplace keeps the house warm, and the beds have electric blankets.
The nearest shops are in Delegate (15 km), and Bombala (27km).
AERIAL VIEW (December 2016):
Fully equipped with gas stove, microwave, and all kitchen equipment, including a large refrigerator with freezer. There are separate taps for tank and river water. Large refectory table and comfortable chairs.
Couch, lounge chairs, slow combustion fire (wood provided), satellite TV, stereo system with CD player, DVD player, numerous books and magazines, and a selection of DVD discs.
Large bath with overhead shower.
Top loading washing machine. Outdoor old style clothesline.
Large well shaded timber verandah with chairs and table at rear. Front verandah with deck chairs.
Double bed with electric blanket. (Fresh linen provided.)
Queen-size bed and single bed. (Fresh linen provided.)
Telstra & Optus networks have only sporadic coverage but better connections are possible along roads or atop a hill.
Cochabonddu is situated on "Valona", a fine wool and timber property. Valona homestead was built immediately after World War II and the cottage, in its secluded setting, followed several years later.
The property is on the Craigie Goldfields, a low yielding alluvial field which supported many hundreds of miners - Chinese and European during the 19th century. Remnants of the old water race near the cottage are a reminder of the past.
Craigie, once also known as Chinatown, was a significant township but little remains: a few allotments from the original subdivision late last century, the old school and residence, a hall and several houses. The Anglican Church built in 1894 is still in occasional use.
Turn south (from the Bombala -Delegate Road) 22 km southwest of Bombala, towards Craigie. The turnoff sign says "CRAIGIE 8". After 3.23 km the Valona gate is on the left, opposite Craigie State Forest.
Once you reach the property, please observe the code of the countryside:
- stay on designated roads
- leave gates as you find them
Nearest car hire facilities are in Canberra, Cooma and Merimbula.
To Cochabonddu from:-
Canberra: 2½ hrs via Cooma
Sydney: 5½ hrs via Cooma
Melbourne: 6 hrs via Cann River
Cooma or Cann River: 1½ hr
Merimbula or Eden: 1½hr
V/Line and NSW Trainlink buses can be met in Bombala by arrangement.
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(Train to Bairnsdale from Melbourne, then bus to Canberra stops at Bombala two to three times weekly.)
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Here we are at the Orange County Airport saying goodbye.
I found the pictures on my camera and remembered I had wanted to blog about them.
Here is the first.
I did not take pictures of how I made this headband!
But don't worry I am working on a tutorial for this today!
I just love these big bow headbands.
I have made quite a few of them let me tell ya :o)
This picture makes me cringe a little.
I am always wanting my photo's to be perfect...but I have a life ya know.
I try to do everything for my crafts, sewing, and the blog while my kids are sleeping.
So this is how photo's of crafts go down at my place:
It's like 7 am. I realize that I want to take a picture of the headband I made to document it. The kids are asleep...but only for a few more minutes. I run grab my camera. No time to maybe run a brush through my hair. Snap a few pictures.
and you end up with the photo below....ha ha life is great isn't it!?
My sister and I planned on having craft nights while the kids were sleeping.
Never happened. We were too tired to stay up at night with all of your daily adventures.
But I did manage to stay up an extra 15 minutes later after my sister went to sleep, and made the cutest little rosette clip for my hair. I am wearing it in the very first photo of this post.
The Big Bow Headband Tutorial:
I use wool felt.
Not the kind of felt you buy in the kids craft section of JoAnns.
It is made of wool.
It is sold at JoAnns on the bolts.
Check info on the bolt to make sure it is really made of wool.
If you get the cheap felt it looks kinda crappy.
I have also bought this kind of felt at Craft Warehouse.
Cut a long strip of your wool felt.
Mine is about 20 inches by 2 1/2 inches.
This makes a big bow.
Play around with the lengths and widths of different sizes.
See how I left about 1/2 inch hanging off the end at the right.
Make sure to do the same.
Next fold the other side over the exact same way.
Take a hot glue gun and glue your folds down.
So I fold the middle of the bow like so, bringing the top and bottom to the middle.
Cut out a rectangle of felt for the middle of the bow.
I cut mine about 1 inch by 2 1/2 inches.
Dimple your fabric like I did above,
and then glue your rectangle of felt around the center of the bow.
Make sure you are gluing in the back of your bow.
Then cut a little triangle shape out of the tails of your bow.
Then hot glue your big bow to a headband!
*You can get great headbands at target, wal-mart, walgreens, ect. I acutally cover plastic or metal headbands to make mine, but I will have to show you how to do that another day. The kids and the husband are awake now.


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