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Our Sustainability Promise
Sustainability at Steelcase is about people. It's about creating and supporting the economic, environmental and social conditions that allow people and communities to reach their full potential.
Sustainability at Steelcase
Our Vision
Our Vision
Bringing Lasting Value
Our sustainability vision is clear: bring lasting value to our customers, employees, shareholders, partners, communities and the environment.
We do this by…
- Designing products and solutions to benefit people
- Consulting with customers to help meet sustainability goals
- Collaborating with key partners to further the science and practice of sustainability
- Operating in a socially responsible way
- Increasing expectations of our supply chain partners
- Reporting global metrics
Progress + Goals
Progress + Goals
Achieving Results
Careful measurement is key to managing impact. We're committed to measuring and reporting on our progress in a transparent and authentic way.
This is a snapshot of some of the goals we're reaching for and progress we've made over the last few years:
- Helping clients donate, resell and recycle furniture assets, saving them more than $4.4 million in 2016
- $5.3 million donated in 2016
- 92,000 volunteer hours since 2015
- 20% reduction in energy use and associated GHG emissions since 2010
- 45% reduction in waste since 2010
- 10% reduction in water use since 2010
- 82% reduction in VOC emissions since 2010
Corporate Sustainability Report
Corporate Sustainability Report
Reporting Our Progress
True progress takes continuous and coordinated efforts to create the economic, environmental and social conditions that allow people and communities to thrive. We have strong beliefs that guide us, and we're putting our beliefs into action.
Every day, in every decision, we work hard to deliver on our purpose and create real world results.
We share these results in an authentic and transparent way in our annual Corporate Sustainability Report.
- Materials Chemistry
- Life Cycle Thinking + Assessments
- End of Use + Recycling
- Certificates + Profiles
- Materials Chemistry
Designing for Sustainability
We believe that providing the best solutions for our customers begins by ensuring they're the best solutions for our environment. That's why every step of the way – through design, manufacturing, delivery and product lifecycle – we consider the impact of our work on people and on the environment and uncover opportunities to make things better.
Materials Chemistry
Materials Chemistry
Knowing. Acting. Solving.
We take a comprehensive approach to understanding what goes into our products we're both precautionary and proactive.
As a leader in our industry, our materials chemistry practice assesses materials to understand their potential impacts on human and environmental health. To date, we have assessed over 1,600 materials. We are actively working with our supply chain to eliminate and phase out materials of concern and to develop suitable alternatives where they may not yet exist.
Life Cycle Thinking + Assessments
Life Cycle Thinking + Assessments
Turning Insights into Action
We rely on a human-centered approach to design, uncovering insights that translate into careful attention for people, our planet and the living things it supports.
We design products for circularity by avoiding and eliminating materials of concern, optimizing performance throughout the life cycle and for remaking, recovery, and end of life strategies.
End of Use + Recycling
End of Use + Recycling
Closing the Loop
Good design and choosing the right materials can ensure a product will be desirable and have a long life. It also can ensure the product can be recycled. Our products are designed for easy disassembly, allowing pieces to be separated easily and quickly for replacement or recycling.
Our products are built to last; sometimes they outlast customer needs.Therefore, we offer multiple programs to extend a product's lifespan through reuse and recycling, refurbishing and donating. These end of use services keep furniture out of landfills, provide non-profit organizations with needed resources and help customers meet their sustainability goals.
Learn more about End of Use programs.
Certificates + Profiles
Certificates + Profiles
Our products carry a number of third-party verified certifications, reflecting our commitment to deliver on our promises.
These certification programs include:
- BIFMA level®
- Blauer Engel
- China Environmental Label
- Cradle to Cradle™
- EU Ecolabel (European Flower)
- FCS® Chain of Custody
- NF Environnement
- Oeko Tex®
- SCS Indoor Advantage™
Product Environmental Profiles (PEPs)*
PEPs answers questions such as:
- How much recycled content is used in a product?
- What is its recyclability?
- What is the product's potential for LEED contribution?
- What certifications are available?
*PEPs are not available for all products globally
Insights + Strategies
People + Purpose
Customers often turn to us to do more than provide furniture for workspaces. We've helped optimize real estate and create spaces that support employee wellbeing. And though these are important elements of any workspace, we're looking ahead and shifting the conversation to something larger – the promise of people. Today, we're focusing on helping customers create spaces designed to accomplish an array of goals.
End of Use Strategies
Every year, we extend the useful life of thousands of products. Through our end of use program, we're helping businesses dispose of their surplus office furniture in socially, economically and environmentally responsible ways. First, we work with them to understand the situation. Then, with our partners, we present options that meet their goals, whether it's income, landfill diversion or charitable donation.
Our Promises
Helping our customers succeed in their business and meet their sustainability goals is priority number one at Steelcase. We deliver on that commitment with research-backed strategies, innovative end of use solutions, a robust supply chain, and products that help unlock the promise of our customers' employees.
We value our global relationships, sharing our resources, talents, materials and leadership to tackle entrenched issues like education and environment. Change happens on the local level, and we're working hard to make a difference for individuals, communities and all of humankind.
Creating lasting change takes a committed team, and we're fortunate to work with some of the finest partners in the industry. From universities to suppliers, dealers to community organizations, we're forging a more innovative, sustainable future through collaboration.
We honor the unique talents, skills and perspectives of our employees, knowing full well that their contributions are what propel us. We value the whole person, and seek to help each employee fulfill their highest potential through policies, practices and honest engagement.
Simply complying with standards isn't enough anymore. We're working to conserve more, use less, find better ways, source more responsible materials, and leave a legacy of positive change that benefits us all.
We're taking a hard look at our actions, putting sustainability at the center of the decision wheel, and implementing organizational change to be the most economically, socially and environmentally responsible company we can be.
Resources + Contact
Sustainability Reporting
View Corporate Sustainability Report + GRI Index
Product Documents
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Rhett Bowen
Sales Executive
Rhett's long time standing in the Real Estate industry is a testament to his abilities, having endured the varying markets over the last three decades.
Born on Sydney's Northern Beaches his knowledge of the Northern suburbs is extensive. Rhett prides himself with his honesty and integrity and believes that unfortunately these two ingredients are sometimes lacking within this industry.
Having been the licensee of two Real Estate agencies and managing sales teams within those companies I believe that Blunts have the right balance with a great team and work ethic, the local knowledge of this company is hard to deny with a 98 yr history in the area. After purchasing my property through Blunts I quickly realized this is not your typical Real Estate agent. After being asked to work for the company I had no hesitations accepting.
I trust that my experience in marketing and sales can contribute to this well oiled machine
As technology has evolved so has the marketing of properties, now enabling a much broader scope for matching potential purchasers to vendors, at the end of the day though it still boils down to matching that right property and negotiating the best price for the vendor these are skills only achieved with experience.

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On Creativity
July 26, 2012 | 1 Comment
Recently, Eathan Janney, a graduate student researcher in the New Media Lab from the Biology – Neuroscience department interviewed me for his Locateflow project about the nature of creativity. We had a pretty interesting discussion, and this is the one minute clip he produced out of our 20+ minute discussion.
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Listeriosis shows need for care in entire farming chain
The food chain is integrated in ways that make contagion a real possibility, writes Emma Corder
One doesn't have to look far to find serious cases of disease or contamination somewhere along the agri value chain. Five people have died in the US in 2018 due to E. coli-infected romaine lettuce, and New Zealand is culling nearly 130,000 cows to stave off a Mycoplasma bovis epidemic.
SA is still suffering the ill-effects of the listeriosis outbreak that has claimed more than 200 lives since the beginning of 2017. This will continue to haunt the industry, especially because it can easily be repeated if there's a similar slip in food safety and hygiene.
The food chain is integrated in ways that make contagion a real possibility. And that threat is not only of a bacterial nature, but also economic if allied sectors are considered. The agriculture sector faces threats on multiple fronts, demanding constant vigilance to avoid a major crisis.
The rapid and deadly spread of SA's listeria infection is a harsh reminder of the responsibility that befalls everyone involved in the food value chain. With nearly 18 months passing between discovery and being declared under control by the health minister, it's also clear that these events take some time to be resolved. And that carries a considerable cost.
For the pork industry, that has been the loss of nearly 2,000 jobs as revenue fell by R800m a month. The knock-on effect, the South African Pork Producers Organisation says, is the loss of R100m a month in allied industries. These are considerable impacts that won't easily be absorbed or overcome in the short term. Export destinations will have to be assured that processed meat products are safe.
Countries including Zambia' Malawi' Botswana and Namibia have banned South African processed meat imports, while Rwanda banned dairy' meat' fruit and vegetables.
Adopting a glass half full attitude to this latest crisis, one could consider the heightened focus on hygiene in agriculture a positive outcome.
Processed meats might be the current focus, but that could shift just as easily and quickly to other sectors that are as prone to bacterial infections and diseases. The dairy sector has not been exempt from health scares of various descriptions over the years. This is not surprising because there are so many threat points throughout the processing of dairy products.
The breadth of the front that the dairy sector has to defend is illustrated in the recent New Zealand decision to cull entire herds. Rather than risk contagion reaching the country's remaining population of more than 6-million cattle, even healthy cattle in infected herds will be culled over the next two years.
These extreme measures are fully justified given the industry's contribution to the country's export earnings. And therein lies an important lesson for the food and agriculture industries: half-measures only prolong the threat.
This applies not only to times of crisis but to the daily, seemingly mundane, operational activities that make up the working lives of people throughout the dairy supply chain. It should be believed that every step and action in the production process is vital to delivering products safe for consumption. And that's because every step and action in the production process is vital.
Handling food or a process in the production chain demands a special attention to detail because each step could potentially introduce some form of contamination. Specialist equipment helps producers meet hygiene and food safety standards, but machinery can only contribute so much to being compliant.
It is only in the past month that bans have started being lifted and the epidemic declared under control. Everyone will be counting the cost for some time, with far greater vigilance expected towards the possibility of a similar outbreak.
This is something dairy farmer Marius van Dyk of Wesselsbron in the Free State is particularly wary of because he is at risk even if complying with all the regulations. "I had real sympathy for my fellow farmers who operated in the meat industry," he says. "The same kind of crisis or disease could easily break out in my own industry. You must have accreditation to show that your enclosures meet certain safety and hygiene requirements and produce certification that your herd has no diseases or infections. Despite these tests and processes, it is still easy for a herd to be infected by a careless neighbour or by a passing farmer who neglected safety and quality standards."
This is a very real fear that affects not only dairy producers but an entire supply chain that spans basic produce from milk to processed dairy such as cheese, yoghurt, butter and ice cream. Infection or contamination can be introduced at multiple points unless the most stringent hygiene standards are maintained.
The pressure is possibly felt most acutely by farmers such as Van Dyk, who, as the source for the raw material, carries the greatest responsibility. And it's a pressure they have to absorb besides running complex dairy farm operations.
It's up to all in the agri industry to develop this culture of caring about every step in the process. Diligence and vigilance come from understanding the impact that even the smallest action or activity has on the ability to deliver the best-quality food to dinner tables.
The processed food industry will need such attention to detail by the bucket load to remedy the damage it's suffered. This example also carries a stark reminder to all other sectors that standards cannot be allowed to slip if the same value destruction is to be avoided.
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Hey guys, Caleb with White Metal Games here, with another fun conversion. This time, a farseer on jetbike! With the exception of the Chapterhouse Farseer on jetbike compatible kit, I don't see a lot of options for these out there. So when a friend asked me to convert up something along these lines, I couldn't resist the opportunity! This isn't as in depth a tutorial as you might be used to, but I think you can get the gist from what I'll outline below.
To start, I gathered up some bits. I wasn't sure what I would need, and in the end I didn't use everything featured below. But IMHO it helps to have more bits than you need to give you a few options with every conversion. I grabbed an assortment of both elf, eldar, dark elf and dark eldar bits, as well as a spare ( mostly assembled) jetbike from a previous eldar project.
So I decided on a more dynamic pose, with the Farseer riding sort of standing up on the bike, like leading his troops heroically into battle. Now I just need a lance to mirror this dynamic stance.
I scale the lance beside a spear from a high elf model to get a sense of size. This way I know about where I need to trim.
If you liked this eldar conversion, be sure to check out a Wraithknight vs. Bloodthirster diorama we did a few months ago!
Up next, WMG is excited for the pending release of the Tyranid Codex in line with 6th Edition rules! Check out this Tyranid BioBattery (Counts as Vengeance Battery) we recently mocked up (WIP) for the 11th Co. GT in November!
Have a conversion you need done? Models you need painted? Send us an email and we'll provide you with a competitive quote right away!
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2016-6-21 fashion Other Brands
Here's a bag that you will only understand when you heart Hermes – The Cabag Weekender Bag.
With a blink of an eye, the little voice in your head might tell you: 'It's so simple, nothing fabulous', but then you figured out it's a 'Hermes' and nothing of Hermes is simple. To appreciate this bag, we need to zoom into the details, therefore, allow us to bang you on some features.
As you can see, it has double ebony hunter calfskin handles, put together with black canvas and can be carried either by hand or on your shoulder. Finished with aluminum rods with Clou de Selle for lightness. You can adjust the width by using the press studs installed on the side.
This Hermes Cabag Weekender Bag is taller than the normal Cabag Bag, it's like comparing the Chanel PST XL and the PST. Purposely made for those who have a busy life style, it can literally store everything you need and so much more.
More importantly, this bag has a timeless look, very practical to use as it matches to many of your casual styles in your wardrobe.
For a Hermes quality bag in your possession, the price is reasonable. Measuring 12.6' x 10' x 4.5' (W x H x D),


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TIGERIS, Zanis
After a lengthy illness on Tuesday, January 11, 2005. Beloved husband of Irma. Loving father of Arvids and his wife Beatrise. Dear Vectevs to Elizabete, Laura and Martins. Family and Friends will be received at the Ward Funeral Home, 4671 Highway 7, Woodbridge (just west of Pine Valley Drive), 905-851-9100, from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. on Thursday. Service will be held in the funeral home chapel at 2 p.m. on Friday. Interment York Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or St. Andrew's Lutheran Latvian Church would be appreciated by the family.
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TIGERT, Lance Stuart, P.Eng., M.B.A., C.F.A.
Peacefully at home in Toronto on March 25, 2005, in his 64th year. Cherished husband of Mary Lou; loved father of Blaine and his wife JoAnne, Bryce and his fiancée Helena; proud grandfather of Lauren, dear son of Kay and the late Tommy TIGERT, brother of Kent. Lance was a gentleman who deeply loved his family and was very proud of them. He enjoyed a long and successful career in the mining industry with Noranda and as a member of several Boards of Directors. This allowed him to pursue his love for travel, taking him to South America, Africa, Australia and South East Asia. An avid golfer and tennis player, Lance enjoyed retreating to his cottage on Lake of Bays. In his lifetime his spirit, love of adventure and Friendship enriched all those who knew him. The family would like to thank all who have been so wonderfully supportive of Lance and Mary Lou during this difficult journey. The family will receive Friends at the Humphrey Funeral Home - A.W. Miles Chapel, 1403 Bayview Avenue (south of Eglinton Avenue East), from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. on Wednesday, March 30. A service will be held at Lawrence Park Community Church, 2180 Bayview Avenue at 2 o'clock on Thursday, March 31. A reception will follow at the Granite Club. If desired, donations in memory of Lance may be made to Sunnybrook and Women's Foundation, Brain Tumour Research, 2075 Bayview Avenue, M4N 3M5.
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Passed away at Headwaters Hospital, Orangeville on Thursday, March 10, 2005 at the age of 81. Predeceased by her husband John F. (Mike) TIGH. Dear sister of Ainslie WYSE of Toronto and Eleanor ANDERSON of England. Predeceased by her brothers Gerald and Peter ESLING. She▼ will be fondly remembered by several nieces, nephews and Friends. Friends may call at the Turner and Porter "Butler" Chapel, 4933 Dundas Street, W. Etobicoke (between Kipling and Islington Aves) from 7-9 p.m. Monday. Funeral service in the chapel on Tuesday, March 15, 2005 at 3 p.m. Cremation.
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Peacefully with courage throughout her life on Friday, March 11, 2005. Beloved mother of John and Susan, Paul and Lenore, and Barry. Adored grandmother of Michelle, Kenny, Andrew, Maggie, Joanna and Molly. Dear sister of Shirley and the late Harry STROHL, Ruth and Ed BLACK, and Frances and the late Bernard RAPHAEL. Special aunt to Stewart, Eric, Jeffery, Brian, Erica, Naomi, and Kate. Predeceased by her husband Dr. Mortimer HARRIS. Special thanks to Dr. David Small, Lucie Lajeunesse, Dr. Michael Bouhadana, Dr. Bernard LaPointe and her devoted caregiver Rose. Funeral Service from Paperman and Sons, Montreal took place on Sunday, March 13. Shiva private. Donations in her memory may be made to the "Brina Harris Memorial Fund for Cancer Research" c/o Jewish General Hospital Foundation, 514-340-8251. Brina will be sadly missed by all who knew and loved her.
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Passed away at Headwaters Hospital, Orangeville on Thursday, March 10, 2005 at the age of 81. Predeceased by her husband John F. (Mike) TIGH. Dear sister of Ainslie WYSE of Toronto and Eleanor ANDERSON of England. Predeceased by her brothers Gerald and Peter ESLING. She▲ will be fondly remembered by several nieces, nephews and Friends. Friends may call at the Turner and Porter "Butler" Chapel, 4933 Dundas St. W., Etobicoke (between Kipling and Islington Aves.) from 7-9 p.m. Monday. Funeral Service in the Chapel on Tuesday, March 15, 2005 at 3 p.m. Cremation.
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TIGHE, Dean R.
At London Health Sciences Centre, Victoria Campus, on Tuesday, February 1, 2005, Dean R. TIGHE of London in his 78th year. Beloved son of the late Walter and Jean TIGHE. Dear brother-in-law of Jean TIGHE of Toronto, and dear cousin of Greta GORTER of Edmonton, Alberta. The funeral service will be conducted in the chapel of the A. Millard George Funeral Home, 60 Ridout Street South, London, on Friday, February 4th at 9: 30 A. M. Interment in Woodland Cemetery, London. As expressions of sympathy, memorial donations to the charity of your choice would be appreciated.
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(Graduate Toronto General Hospital School of Nursing, 1938) Passed away peacefully at the McCall Centre on Wednesday, June 1, 2005 in her 90th year. Bernice SCOTT (née TEMPLE) beloved wife of the late Howard James SCOTT. Survived by her sisters Mary HERSOM and Elsie RIVA and sisters-in-law Margaret GREER/GRIER and Joyce TIGHE and her 16 Nieces and Nephews. Predeceased by her sisters Jean ADAMSON and Margaret STECKENREITER and her Nephew Gordon STECKENREITER. She will be sadly missed by her many Friends. She was a member of Streetsville United Church and enjoyed working on projects with the United Church Women Friends are invited to a Memorial Service in her honour to be held at Streetsville United Church, 274 Queen Street South, Streetsville on Monday, June 6th, 2005 at 2: 30 p.m. (visitation 1 hour prior). Donations, for those who wish, may be directed to the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, the Streetsville United Church or the Arthritis Society. Arrangements entrusted to Lee Funeral Home Limited, Streetsville.
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TOMLINSON, Margaret Elizabeth (née TOVEY)
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After a lengthy illness on Sunday, August 14, 2005 at Peel Memorial Hospital, Brampton. Loving wife of Donald TOMLINSON for over 60 years. Loving mother of Dawn (Queenie) BADLEY, Charles (Chuck) TOMLINSON and Lorelei (Lori) TOMLINSON. Predeceased by her son John Ernest TOMLINSON (1983.) Grandmother to Marvene, and great-grandmother to Ashley and Mathew. Sister of Andrew and Edith TOVEY, Theresa and Charles TIGHE, Helen and James McDEVITT and sisters-in-law Joan TOVEY and Joyce TOVEY. Predeceased by her parents Thomas TOVEY (1955) and Irene CLOSS (1971,) and siblings Mary STEAD (1982,) John TOVEY (1983) and Daniel TOVEY (1982.) A private family service and burial was held at Riverside Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario on Wednesday, August 17, 2005.
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DAY, Alice Anne (TIGHT)
Suddenly at her residence on Monday, November 28th, 2005. Alice (TIGHT) DAY of Pike Bay and formerly of Milton in her 72nd year. Beloved wife of Willis DAY. Dear mother of Darla ROLLINS of Paris Rick and his wife Cindy; and Wayne all of Wiarton and mother-in-law of Violet DAY of Vermilion Bay. Special grandmother of Fran, Bub, Juice, Tamara, Ryan, Michael, Graeme, Stephan, Simon, Emily and great-grandmother of Mason, Liam, Connor, and Damian. Sister of Doug (Colleen) of Chatham and aunt of Will (Arlene) and Ben (Grace). The family will receive Friends at the Davidson Chapel, 71 Main Street, Lion's head on Thurday from 2: 00 to 4:00 and 7: 00 to 9:00 p.m. The funeral service will be conducted from the chapel on Friday, December 2nd at 2: 00 p.m. with Pastor Billy STRACHAN officiating. Interment, Boyd Cemetery, Hepworth. Donations to the Lion's head Hospital or the Diabetic Association would be appreciated. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.georgefuneralhome.com
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TIGHT, June Muriel
Peacefully, with a smile, on Thursday, May 19, 2005 at Trafalgar Lodge, Oakville in her 85th year. June, beloved wife of the late Cliff. Loved Mum of Barb and her busband Bill WORDEN and Rob and his wife Isobel. Dear Grandma of Beth and Sarah, Katie and Lauren. She is survived by her 3 loving sisters Eileen, Patricia and Marjorie. Visitation at the Kopriva Taylor Community Funeral Home, 64 Lakeshore Road West, Oakville from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Sunday. Funeral Service in the Chapel 2: 00 p.m. Monday, May 23, 2005. Those who wish may make memorial donations to the charity of their choice. Special thanks to her longtime physician Dr. Michael McCulloch and the caring and compassionate staff at Trafalgar Lodge.
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Have a great time on the water at Rocky Point Park!
Designated Anchorage Area
Port Moody's Designated Anchorage Area (DAA) pilot program provides boaters with a safe, reserved anchorage space in the inlet of Port Moody while they visit and enjoy the many sights and amenities and the surrounding area.
Green Tips for Boaters
As we enjoy the summer boating season, it offers the opportunity to extend the environmental stewardship practices that you put in play at home and with your car, through green boating practices to protect Burrard Inlet and other coastal waters of BC. One of the easiest things you can do is to reduce unnecessary idling of marine engines. Idling of marine engines can contribute carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) which pollute our airshed and contribute to climate change.
Boaters can help to reduce pollution by:
Read more green boating tips
Annual launch fees
Port Moody also sells an annual boat launch, retrieval and parking pass. 2019 annual passes are available for purchase at the Port Moody Recreation Complex during business hours.
Port Moody Residents* $157.85 + tax
* Note: Only one pass at resident rate allowed; otherwise non-resident fee applies. Must show driver's license & other proof of residency (eg: current Hydro or Telus bill) plus vehicle registration.
*By the following Council Resolution, Burnaby residents are entitled to pay the Port Moody rate:
THAT the mutual co-operation between the two municipalities in building and maintaining the Rocky Point Ramp be recognized by the policy statement of the City Council that Burnaby citizens will always be treated in the same way as Port Moody citizens with respect to the privilege and cost of using the Ramp.
Click to enlarge Rocky Point Park's Boat Launch parking map.
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Lisa Creagh
Fine Art Projects
Holding Time
The Instant Garden
Background notes
Tidy Street
Tidy Street Press
Little Monsters
Lost in Wonderland
Escape Routes
For You Instalation
Re-Covered Images from the Series
Floriculture - Elements
Residencies / Commissions
Lost in Wonderland, Brighton Festival, 2005
Mother Interviews
There Then, Hear Now: Resonance FM, March 2018
In Conversation, ONCA Gallery, 2018
In Conversation, Fabrica Gallery, 2018
This Dark Matter
Thoughts on ONCA
The Brighton Photo Fringe
Holding Time press
Instant Garden press 2010-present
Rfotofolio, January 2017
Jumeirah Magazine, May 2015
Decoded Arts, April 2015
The Telegraph, April 2013
Sloane Square Magazine, April 2013
British Journal of Photography, August 2010
Time Out London, August 19th 2010
Claudia Winkleman Show, 8th June 2012
Tidy Street Press 2006
The Argus, Wednesday October 18th 2006
24 Hour Museum Nov 7th 2006
8 Magazine
BBC News
BPF Press 2003
British Journal of Photography
Source Magazine review of Recent Work
Source Magazine
Photoworks Magazine
Headliner, New York 2001
Royal Brompton Hospital, Commission, Oct 2017
Exbury Gardens Residency, October 2017
Holding Time - Funded by ACE, June 2017
Winner of IPA Award 2016
'Plant: Exploring the Botanical World' by Phaidon
Holding Time - Update
Merge Visible 2016
FIX Photo 2016
Fotofest International 2016
The Parlour
The London Art Fair, 2016
Update on The Kickstarter Campaign
Kickstarter Campaign 2015
Marie Lactans
In Conversation, Jumeirah, April 2015
New series of Podcasts, March 2015
Art London, January 2015
Who is Lily?
The Little Black Gallery Opening April 2013
Lucy Bell Gallery Solo Show Opening, June 2012
British Summertime 6th June 2012
Merge Visible, 2016
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Floriculture 2
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Floriculture - Elements
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The Instant Garden began a long time ago with a journey around Italian churches painted by Giotto.
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The symbol of a flower formed of interconnecting circles appeared over and over in the patterns I saw in my own doodles. I found infinite ways of using this symbol to form compositions, both loose and geometrical.
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Celtic Circles, 2014
A three minute podcast looking at the drawings used as a basis for the Instant Garden Series
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'Plant: Exploring the Botanical World' by Phaidon
Floriculture 2 is featured in this new compendium of Fine Art and Botanical Drawing spanning three centuries including photographers such as Charles Darwin, Brassaï, Yayoi Kusama, Robert Mapplethorpe, Georgia O'Keeffe and Irving Penn
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Emily Allchurch, Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (after Piranesi)
6 to 10 September, 10am to 5pm
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Merge Visible: an action in Photoshop which flattens separate layers together to make a unified image
Mall Galleries is pleased to present Merge Visible, its first ever exhibition of digital collage in contemporary fine art photography, featuring examples by six eminent practitioners, all of whom utilise computer software to create imaginative compositions, part reality, part fantasy, which offer a window onto the world around us. Artists include Emily Allchurch, Deborah Baker, Lisa Creagh, Ellie Davies, Barbara Nati and Suzanne Moxhay. Although these artists have swapped easel and canvas for computer screen and software, they are without doubt heavily influenced by the more traditional practice of fine art painting. Emily Allchurch, perhaps the most, as her works are contemporary reconstructions of particular Old Master paintings by the likes of Bruegel and Piranesi. Meanwhile Deborah Baker admits that the abstract nature of her images is indebted to abstract expressionism and its practitioners, from Willem de Kooning to Jackson Pollock. While according to Lisa Creagh, her works owe much to Dutch Flower paintings and Byzantine ecclesiastical art, as well as Islamic geometrical designs. Whereas Barbara Nati acknowledges the influence of nineteenth century painting to her work, and Suzanne Moxhay, the early film-making technique of matte painting, where backdrops were painted on sheets of glass and integrated by the camera with the live-action on set. Common to them all, though, is the use of photography as their medium and computer technology as their tool to create meticulously choreographed compositions, seamlessly integrated, which provoke intense visual resonances, alive to the digital age.
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Baker explores the cycles of life and seasonal change through the techniques of montage and layering, which she applies to photographs of plants as they grow and develop in her woodland garden. The aim is the representation of the subject "… in a recognisable and arresting form, emphasised by the methods of process and production unique to digital photographic imagery." Exemplifying this effect especially well is Baker's Betulanimbusi (2013), in which crisp, chiaroscuroed leaves, frozen in free fall, exude theatricality well beyond traditional botanical art.
Creagh is likewise inspired by plant life, however Creagh prefers mainly generic, shop bought, hothouse bred varieties. These, she photographs in her studio - under controlled lighting, using photographic techniques such as soft focus and hard edges - from all sides and in all states of budding to drooping. Next, Creagh assembles, manipulates and repeats individual images until a random but decorative pattern emerges, in the style of Islamic floral carpets which were thrown down in the Persian desert by nomadic tribes to create an 'instant garden' in the sand. One can see this inspiration most clearly in Creagh's largest exhibit, Floriculture 2 (2015).
Davies' exhibits explore the essential character of forests, in particular as "potent symbols in folklore, fairy tale and myth, places of enchantment and magic as well as danger and mystery." Davies achieves this by 'interposing' pictures of mature and ancient forests with images of constellations taken by the Hubble telescope, thus creating pictures that convey with bewildering beauty the fundamental otherness of the forest landscape, as captured so well in Stars 15 (2015).
Nati focuses on the dangers of environmental degradation. Using digital montage techniques, Nati creates dystopian visions of the future – none more discordant than The House of this Evening, All Mine #1 (2013), in which a ramshackle tenement occupies a treetop, with dark clouds overhead. These premonitions, which Nati has described as 'postcards from the future' deliver social and ethical messages about the environment we are living in today.
Emily Allchurch's oeuvre addresses the environment too, although with a focus on urban locations. Her practice creates a dialogue with historical artworks, using photographs that she takes on site, to reconstruct the original in a contemporary idiom. Each artwork is a journey around a city or place, compressed into a single scene, to reveal a modern social narrative. In the example of Babel London (after Bruegel), hundreds of photographic fragments reimagine London as a modern-day Babel - a chaotic construction site, a "celebration, as well as a warning about architectural hubris."
Moxhay merges elements to create fictional worlds which nevertheless possess a reality of their own. Moxhay accomplishes this by creating crude stage sets on glass panels from cut-out fragments of books, magazines and paintings, which she photographs and manipulates. She "work[s] intuitively with the material, finding points of connection between parts of images – either through shared subject matter or formal considerations such as following the path of light from one image through another … play[ing] with anomalies of various kinds – of texture, surface depth, space, scale, movement and architecture." In so doing, Moxhay conceives images of surreal spaces, reminiscent of empty film sets – staged scenes pregnant with narrative potential.
Exhibition runs
6 to 10 September, 10am to 5pm Mall Galleries ,The Mall, London SW1, Admission Free
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Saturday 10 September, 11am to 1pm Under Construction Meet the artists exhibiting in Merge Visible and learn about the processes behind their work and their place within the emergent practice of digital collage in contemporary fine art photography. Tickets £5, Students £3, Free to Friends of Mall Galleries
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Hey, everyone!
It was good to hear from you all. I am glad you all had a safe and enjoyable week. This week had a lot of ups and downs, but over all was really good! We had loads of lessons, and I learned a lot. I was a little homesick when I was sick haha, but every missionary is from time to time and it's okay. It makes me want to work harder because I know at the time these two years look like the longest two years ever, but it will fly by so fast. Just like it has already been 3 months, that is nuts!! Anyways, here is my week best I can remember it. It was long.
(Sorry I didn't take any photos this week, too busy and too sick haha, but I did take one right before here since we went to 5 Guys! Elder Bradshaw took some funny pics of elder Corcoran and I being goofy. Happy Halloween from Aberdeen :)
Tuesday: We had our District Meeting, I learned a lot about the Spirit, the scriptures, and how these two years need to be years that I have ZERO regrets. That just means I gotta work even harder then I am ;). After that, we had a lesson with David, who is funny as always, he gave me a Scottish kids' story I will share with you guys. "On Yonder Hill, there stood a coo. Its Nae there noo, it must have Mooed." (Try saying that in a Scottish accent, good luck haha) Other than that, we GQ'd a lot, then at night went over to our church building, and helped the young men set up for the Halloween Party on Friday. I started to feel a little sick, but it was alright.
Wednesday: We had a pretty busy day. We taught some new people, and then we taught Kate from Kenya. She committed to getting baptized on the 12th of November!! It's really exciting for us and means we got a lot of work to do with her, but I pray she can make the date! We also taught another lesson with Pearl to help her make her date of the 6th! Other than that, can't remember much, just was getting sicker and sicker. All the missionaries in the SIM seem to be getting the same virus, where you have a really bad fever, and chills, and sore throat, for a few days. I started getting it.
Thursday: Another Busy Day! We had Ward Coordination in the morning. There is a new sister in our area named Sister Weber, and her companion is Sister Zimmerman from my original district in the MTC! They both want to work really hard so that is good. They share the same area and ward as us. The Aberdeen Elders and the Zone Leaders go to the Stake Centre, I think I forgot to mention that forever ago. But anyways, we taught some more lessons. I was feeling like crap the entire day, but just kept working hard!
Friday: Today was busy as well. We were pretty busy every day because we have put in all the time and work to get all of our investigators, so it is really nice, way less time having to GQ. We taught Vicky, Kate, Alice, Jonathan, and Pearl. All went really well. After our last lesson, we went over to the church for the Halloween party, but I was feeling real bad. I just sat in the corner and tried to not move because I was in a ton of pain, but there is no point in complaining to you guys. It is all good. I have actually lost a ton of weight, I didn't really need to, but it is because we don't eat much and walk everything, everyday so that is a plus haha! But by the end of the night, I had a fever of 105 and was freezing to death, but burning up and sweating to death. I'm sure you guys know the feeling, no point in going into detail. I just did not feel so hot, to say the least.
Saturday: I woke up and was dying. Elder Haynes, Peterson, Richey, Bain, and Bluttenberg were all sick as well. I had to go over to Elder Richey's flat and we just laid in bed trying to get some rest the entire day. It was a brutal day. I don't really have much more to say. Just was very sick. Not fun.
Sunday: We had stake Conference! I was still dying, but decided I needed to go. We were able to hear from President and Sister Donaldson, who were incredible. And the former Mission Pres and his wife of the Greece Athens mission, might be one of the FEW missions harder then SIM, so respect to them. We also taught Pearl again. SHE IS GETTING BAPTIZED NEXT SUNDAY! It was a real good day. I learned a lot, but still dying haha.
Monday: Today's schedule is a little different because it is HALLOWEEN! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! I hope you all have such a good day today and get lots of candy for me, cause I won't be eating any of that haha. We had our lesson in the morning today, where we taught John Howard. He made a little video for you guys. I hope you enjoy it, I was crying. I still am pretty sick today, but that is alright. A brand new five guys opened up today here in Aberdeen, there is only 50 in all the UK. WHATTA BLESSING! It was real good! Made me miss home a little, but I loved it. I really don't have much more time, but I want you guys to know how grateful I am to be here. It is the hardest thing I have ever done, but I have learned so much already and becoming the man I always wanted to be :) I am so excited for Pearl's baptism. I can't believe it's happening, such a miracle! I am continuing to work hard here in Aberdeen. Oh, also, Moves call is Sunday night. I don't think Elder E is staying around, but I probably will. Who knows what will happen though. I will be able to e-mail you guys next Monday and let you know what is happening. HAVE A GOOD WEEK. I love you all! Talk to you soon


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A video circulating on social media shows a Home Affairs official at Beitbridge border post checking her Facebook feed and WhatsApp messages while on duty.
Disciplinary actions are being instituted over a video clip portraying a Home Affairs official at Beitbridge border post checking her Facebook and WhatsApp while she was meant to be working.
She and her bosses are now in hot water with headquarters.
The SA Department of Home Affairs confirmed she is stationed at the Beitbridge Port of Entry and that Minister Malusi Gigaba had on Wednesday issued an instruction to the department to act swiftly to address the matter.
"The department's policy prohibits the usage of cellular phones by front office officials while performing their duties.
"The official has been identified and she will be subjected to internal disciplinary processes.
"Further to this' disciplinary measures have commenced against the three supervisors on the shift for lack of adequate supervision."
Director-General Mkuseli Apleni expressed his "displeasure at the lack of attention paid to the actual duty performed by the official in direct violation of the policy against use of cellular phones at workstations".
"Of major concern to me is the fact that the official is dealing with security documents without paying attention to detail and rather preoccupied with her cellular phone. To this end' we have commenced with disciplinary measures against the official and the three supervisors'" said the director-general.
Twitter was of course quick to react:
At DHA you can spend several hours for something that doesn't take more time, my passport was stamped exit when I was entering South Africa at the slowest and busiest border post in Southern Africa, Beitbridge, I only realised when I had already left.
— Samuel Mahachi (@smahachi) March 14, 2018
It has been like this for years,someone is sleeping on duty and as zimbabweans we are now used and never moved by such working ethics by south africa's immigration,and i think this is most common at beitbridge.
— ..george.k manyongaf (@george_manyonga) March 14, 2018
so sad dt u r only realising ds nw..i've bn using the beitbridge border post for e past 6years ..trust me wen i say this, she wz very efficient..e service w get z worse than ds..i wonder f ey get any training wtsoeva
— mabuthoe (@EnerstNgqa) March 14, 2018
i am very surprised to note that you as SA Home affairs you were not aware whilst this abusive manner has been happening for many years at Beitbridge Border post by your officials. We have been subjected to all sorts of abuse by your immigration
— farai (@wekwamatimbe) March 14, 2018
The service is worse at Beitbridge. I also wonder why the counters at OR Tambo never have full staff compliments in peak schedules ….
— RayC (@rayauditor) March 14, 2018
We suffer from their ordeals at the Beitbridge Border Post. If you complain, they confiscate your passport & u will end up spending the whole day there. I had a terrible experience last December, a lady there wld stamp 3 passports & take a 15 minutes break & do the same again.
— Liberty S Mazumber (@mazumber) March 14, 2018
Please do something Minister. Beitbridge is a nightmare for travelers. And this exactly is the treatment we get. No greetings, they completely ignore you and keep on talking to colleagues as if you are not standing in front of them. Why blacks do we treat each other like this?
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As throughput-oriented accelerators, GPUs provide tremendous processing power by running a massive number of threads in parallel. However, exploiting high degrees of thread-level parallelism (TLP) does not always translate to the peak performance that GPUs can offer, leaving the GPU's resources often under-utilized.
Compared to compute resources, memory resources can tolerate considerably lower levels of TLP due to hardware bottlenecks. Unfortunately, this tolerance is not effectively exploited by the Single Instruction Multiple Thread (SIMT) execution model employed by current GPU compute frameworks. Assuming an SIMT execution model, GPU applications tend to send bursts of memory requests that compete for GPU memory resources. Traditionally, hardware units, such as the wavefront scheduler, are used to manage such requests. However, the scheduler struggles when computational operations are not abundant enough to effectively hide the long latency of memory operations.
In this paper, we propose a Twin Kernel Multiple Thread (TKMT) execution model, a compiler-centric solution that improves hardware scheduling at compile time. TKMT better distributes the burst of memory requests in some of the wavefronts through static instruction scheduling. Our results show that TKMT can offer a 12% average improvement over the baseline SIMT implementation on a variety of benchmarks on AMD Radeon systems.
Buffer overflows are a common source of program crashes, data corruption, and security problems. In this work, we demonstrate that GPU-based workloads can also cause buffer overflows, a problem that was traditionally ignored because CPUs and GPUs had separate memory spaces. Modern GPUs share virtual, and sometimes physical, memory with CPUs, meaning that GPU-based buffer overflows are capable of producing the same program crashes, data corruption, and security problems as CPU-based overflows. While there are many tools to find buffer overflows in CPU-based applications, the shift towards GPU-enhanced programs has expanded the problem beyond their capabilities.
This paper describes a tool that uses canaries to detect buffer overflows caused by GPGPU kernels. It wraps OpenCL API calls and alerts users to any kernel that writes outside of a memory buffer. We study a variety of optimizations, including using the GPU to perform the canary checks, which allow our tool to run at near application speeds. The resulting runtime overhead, which scales with the number of buffers used by the kernel, is 14% across 175 applications in 16 GPU benchmark suites. In these same suites, we found 13 buffer overflows in 7 benchmarks.
Predictive modeling using machine learning is an effective method for building compiler heuristics, but there is a shortage of benchmarks. Typical machine learning experiments outside of the compilation field train over thousands or millions of examples. In machine learning for compilers, however, there are typically only a few dozen common benchmarks available. This limits the quality of learned models, as they have very sparse training data for what are often high-dimensional feature spaces. What is needed is a way to generate an unbounded number of training programs that finely cover the feature space. At the same time the generated programs must be similar to the types of programs that human developers actually write, otherwise the learning will target the wrong parts of the feature space.
We mine open source repositories for program fragments and apply deep learning techniques to automatically construct models for how humans write programs. We sample these models to generate an unbounded number of runnable training programs. The quality of the programs is such that even human developers struggle to distinguish our generated programs from hand-written code.
We use our generator for OpenCL programs, CLgen, to automatically synthesize thousands of programs and show that learning over these improves the performance of a state of the art predictive model by 1.27×. In addition, the fine covering of the feature space automatically exposes weaknesses in the feature design which are invisible with the sparse training examples from existing benchmark suites. Correcting these weaknesses further increases performance by 4.30×.
GEMM is the main computational kernel in BLAS3. Its micro-kernel is either hand-crafted in assembly code or generated from C code by general-purpose compilers (guided by architecture-specific directives or auto-tuning). Therefore, either performance or portability suffers.
We present a POrtable Compiler Approach, Poca, implemented in LLVM, to automatically generate and optimize this micro-kernel in an architecture-independent manner, without involving domain experts. The key insight is to leverage a wide range of architecture-specific abstractions already available in LLVM, by first generating a vectorized micro-kernel in the architecture-independent LLVM IR and then improving its performance by applying a series of domain-specific yet architecture-independent optimizations. The optimized micro-kernel drops easily in existing GEMM frameworks such as BLIS and OpenBLAS. Validation focuses on optimizing GEMM in double precision on two architectures. On Intel Sandybridge and AArch64 Cortex-A57, Poca's micro-kernels outperform expert-crafted assembly code by 2.35% and 7.54%, respectively, and both BLIS and OpenBLAS achieve competitive or better performance once their micro-kernels are replaced by Poca's.
Modern data-center applications often comprise a large amount of code, with substantial working sets, making them good candidates for code-layout optimizations. Although recent work has evaluated the impact of profile-guided intra-module optimizations and some cross-module optimizations, no recent study has evaluated the benefit of function placement for such large-scale applications. In this paper, we study the impact of function placement in the context of a simple tool we created that uses sample-based profiling data. By using sample-based profiling, this methodology follows the same principle behind AutoFDO, i.e. using profiling data collected from unmodified binaries running in production, which makes it applicable to large-scale binaries. Using this tool, we first evaluate the impact of the traditional Pettis-Hansen (PH) function-placement algorithm on a set of widely deployed data-center applications. Our experiments show that using the PH algorithm improves the performance of the studied applications by an average of 2.6%. In addition to that, this paper also evaluates the impact of two improvements on top of the PH technique. The first improvement is a new algorithm, called C3, which addresses a fundamental weakness we identified in the PH algorithm. We not only qualitatively illustrate how C3 overcomes this weakness in PH, but also present experimental results confirming that C3 performs better than PH in practice, boosting the performance of our workloads by an average of 2.9% on top of PH. The second improvement we evaluate is the selective use of huge pages. Our evaluation shows that, although aggressively mapping the entire code section of a large binary onto huge pages can be detrimental to performance, judiciously using huge pages can further improve performance of our applications by 2.0% on average.
Compilers use static analyses to justify program optimizations. As every optimization must preserve the semantics of the original program, static analysis typically fall-back to conservative approximations. Consequently, the set of states for which the optimization is invalid is overapproximated and potential optimization opportunities are missed. Instead of justifying the optimization statically, a compiler can also synthesize preconditions that imply the correctness of the optimizations and are checked at the runtime of the program.
In this paper, we present a framework to collect, generalize, and simplify assumptions based on Presburger arithmetic. We introduce different assumptions necessary to enable a variety of complex loop transformations and derive a (close to) minimal set of preconditions to validate them at runtime. Our evaluation shows that the runtime verification introduces negligible overhead and that the assumptions we propose almost always hold true. On a large benchmark set including SPEC and NPB our technique increases the number of modeled non-trivial loop nests by a factor of 3.9×.
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Monday, November 21, 2016
On the path to ascendancy
Don't ask me how I managed it, but somehow I managed not to realize this is but the first of (yet) another Malazan series - I really thought this was a standalone novel for the longest time, and in a way, it actually does work as a standalone, even though it is (now that I notice) quite obviously the first part of a series called Path to Ascendancy. Whether you begin at the very beginning (Erikson's Gardens of the Moon, 1999) or here with 2016's Dancer's Lament, you're in for a treat, a treat that will force you to think a bit more than usual. I would actually recommend starting out with Dancer's Lament if you're curious about the setting and style but not sure wether to commit. Yes, there will be a lot of stuff that will fly right over your head (and which for long-time readers will be quite obvious and fun nods and winks), but the same thing can be said for Gardens of the Moon. The difference: In Dancer's Lament you are limited to far, far fewer POVs, and Esslemont has a clearer, simpler, less philosophical prose that may make it easier for a new reader to immerse him/herself. In Gardens, the 'real' start, you must acquaint yourself with so many characters and places, and there's no hand-holding (resulting in many people dropping the series before it gets going - and boy does it get going), whereas Dancer's Lament is focused mainly on the adventures of Dorin, as the main character, with the stories of Silk and Itko as two other main strands. That's not too many.
Right, so Dancer's Lament is a prequel, and, this is actually the first time I've read a prequel that I actually enjoy, and that doesn't take away from the already established canon. Erikson made a prequel too, of course, but it's so far back in time it doesn't really feel like one. Dancer's Lament, however, really feels like a prequel as it features two important characters from the "original saga" and how they, well, happened upon the titular path to ascendancy (in Erikson's work, they have already ascended). These two characters happen to be among the most interesting and perhaps fun characters from the main story, so seeing their "young" (or at least inexperienced) versions is good entertainment. While Esslemont is unable to deliver dry wit the way Erikson does so masterfully, he none the less manages to paint these characters with the right colors, and I end up 'believing' this story to be what actually happened prior to Gardens of the Moon. With fewer characters, who were already interesting and established, and keeping the story mainly to one (large) setting - the grand multi-walled city of Li Heng - I'd argue that Dancer's Lament is the easiest-to-read Malazan story so far, a perfect (re)introduction for new, unsuspecting readers. [That being said, I assume reading Dancer's Lament only after the main saga is even richer / more rewarding.]
It's like if the Star Wars prequels were actually interesting and made me believe their version was the actual, true backstory to the original trilogy. Dancer's Lament sticks to the Malazan formula in many ways - cryptic at times, violent and sorcerous, surprising, obtuse, different yet clearly fantastical - but Esslemont keeps it lean and easy, and the pacing is perfect. This novel, following Esslemont's first six under the Malazan Empire banner ("Night of Knives", "Return of the Crimson Guard", "Stonewielder", "Orb Sceptre Throne", "Blood and Bone", and "Assail"), is without a doubt Ian's best, to the point that many a fan has uttered that this even outshines Erikson's own return to the world of Malaz (his "Forge of Darkness" and "Fall of Light"). Not that I didn't enjoy all those books; it's just that Dancer's Lament strips away some of the more ponderous leanings of previous works, it's more focused, sharper...Yeah, definitely recommending this one. Gotta love the setting, the characters, the mythical atmosphere contrasted with the almost mundane banter.
Ian's been working in the shadow of Steven for many years, despite the two of them being joint creators of the Malazan setting; and it must be quite hard to get out of that shadow for Steven truly is an unheralded giant, but with Dancer's Lament, despite in many ways coming closer to classic Erikson, Esslemont shows more muscles and becomes a master of his world, too. The prose feels more confident, the story has a clear structure (for a Malaz tale, that is - plenty of folk might get confused by certain "side treks" in this tale which are obviously setting up the rest of the trilogy), and there's an abundance of creativity - as there should be in a Malazan tale - elements just begging to be incorporated in your next tabletop roleplaying game (as a GM, I really want to 'steal' Ryllandaras). FOR THE GLORY OF THE MALAZAN EMPIRE (and how it came to be)!!!!!!!!!1
NEXT UP: RETURN TO WESTEROS (AND MORE SPECIFICALLY, THE VALE OF ARRYN). I HAD SOME TIME THE OTHER NIGHT TO CHECK OUT SPOILERS FOR GoT SEASON SEVEN AND HOLY SHALMANAT, DID YOU SEE THOSE SPOILERS??!?!?!?!?!?
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Alex Pall And The History Of The Chainsmokers
Alex Pall is part of an EDM due called The Chainsmokers. They came out with their breakthrough hit, "#Selfie" in 2015. The song was in the top 10 in singles lists throughout the world. The song had also rocketed them up into the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. iHeart Radio has given them five awards for their talents.
DJing was never new to Alex Pall; he had been DJing for his whole life. He was working alongside another DJ named Rhett Bixler. However, Bixler left and there was a need for another DJ to take his place. The manager, Adam Alpert, told Andrew Taggart about the opportunity. At the time, Taggart lived in the state of Maine. He took transit down to New York to take advantage of the opportunity.
At the time that Alex Pall met Andrew Taggart, Andrew Pall was attending New York University. He was studying the topics of music business and art history. Andrew Taggart was in New York City because he was an intern at Interscope Records. He was a student at Syracuse University.
Andrew joined the duo in 2012. From then on out, they created great music and gained as much experience as possible. In 2012, they worked with Priyanka Chopra, an Indian singer, and came out with an album in 2013.
Alex Pall has been very prosperous through his pursuits as a DJ of EDM music. What really proves his success is that he was able to afford a house in Hollywood Hills. A recent article from the Wall Street journal talks about his lovely home. Built in the thirties, the home has a bungalow feel. However, more features were added to it over the years. Additions from the past 30 years make the house appear a bit industrial.
An interesting development has been an increase in the types of people who listen to them. They have been quite popular with people who are younger than their original audience.
The Chainsmokers: A Path to Success
The Chainsmokers are Alex Pall and Andrew Taggart, two DJs working together to form a band. They produce as well.
Pall and Taggart were introduced in 2012 by mutual friend and band manager Adam Alpert, who knew both men and knew they were both DJs. Pall was looking for a partner for the Chainsmokers and Alpert felt they would work well together. He was right and the chemistry between Pall and Taggart was quick and easy. Soon enough Taggart had moved from his native Maine to New York, where Pall was, and the two quit their respective jobs and began rehearsing full-time.
After they spent well over a year perfecting their synergy and style, they played their first live show at Terminal 5 in September of 2014 as the opening act for Timeflies. After a successful show and a positive response, the Chainsmokers began releasing recorded material.
They began with a pair of EPs, "Bouquet" and "Collage." In 2017 they released their first full-length LP entitled "Memories…Do Not Open." It was a fast success, topping both the Top 200 and Dance/Electronic charts at Billboard at the same time. The album is still a regular at the top of the Dance/Electronic chart. "Memories" is tied with "Demon Days" from the Gorillaz for the third most non-consecutive weeks at the number one spot on that chart. Since "Demon Days" took 13 years to get that many weeks, it is likely that "Memories" will surpass it in the near future, as the album is still a staple at clubs and on the radio.
After "Memories…Do Not Open" the Chainsmokers released another EP, "Sick Boy", and has announced their second LP is in the works with a likely release date of late 2018 or early 2019.
In between albums and EPs the Chainsmokers have released numerous free singles through their website. These songs are ones the duo feels stand better alone than on an album of different sounding tracks. The Chainsmokers like to splice different genres of music into these singles, showcasing their diverse interests and intentions to grow as musicians.


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Staff in our Integrated Health programs provide essential mental health, addiction and recovery services , crisis services, telepsychiatry, and residential programming to improve the client's overall well-being.
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The goal of our Prevention Services is to prevent the cycle of child abuse and ultimately build happy, bright futures for at-risk children and families.


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In 2017, the Internet airwaves heard the launch of BuzzHead Radio — a new, community radio station that was built from scratch by two BuzzHeads who love indie music, good radio, the arts and fantastic podcasting. We originate locally but we reach all corners of the world.
BuzzHead Radio is a free-format independent radio station committed to providing curious individuals with the best in fresh, entertaining podcasts and new, non-mainstream indie music. We are based in the middle of the United States of America in Enid, Oklahoma.
Our station format is based on great music, without genre, sprinkled with uplifting podcasts, smashing interviews and watchable live streamed shows. We would love to syndicate our shows to other online and terrestrial radio stations.
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"Wow!" That's what people usually say to Jack Vanstrom when they hear he's been with Great Northern for 40 years. But Jack isn't surprised that he's been with the company that long. "They make you feel like you are part of a family. They'll tell you when you're doing good; they have no problem complimenting you. All of the different jobs I held, there was always a challenge, always something new you could do. They personally helped me evolve into a better a person and a better worker."
Vanstrom especially appreciates being asked for input on new equipment and processes. "When they are considering putting new equipment in, they actually take some of us out to look at it. They ask what we think about the equipment and take our input into consideration. That means a lot. It's a good company to work for."


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Family of man killed by Escondido police files $30-million claim
The family of a 51-year-old man who was fatally shot in his home by an Escondido police officer has filed a $30-million wrongful death claim against the city of Escondido and the officer.
Alex Galindo, lawyer for the family of Van Dinh Le, said the family believes Le was not a threat and that the officer and his partner were negligent in "failing to calm Mr. Le down and address his mental illness" instead of rushing at him and forcing him out of the bathroom "for no reason."
Officer Matt Nelson, a 10-year veteran, fired a single shot at Le, striking him in the forehead. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
San Diego County Dist. Atty. Bonnie Dumanis cleared Nelson of any wrongdoing in the March 3 incident in a letter to the Escondido Police Department on Aug. 4. The district attorney's office investigates all officer-involved shootings.
The police were responding to a call that Le was "suicidal, mentally unstable and was acting dangerously." Dumanis said that an autopsy found that Le had several medications for mental disorders in his system.
Nelson fired when Le refused repeated commands to drop an 8-inch pair of scissors and instead "raised the scissors and advanced," Dumanis said.
Galindo said he plans, in a lawsuit filed in federal court, to challenge the police version of the incident on a crucial detail: the assertion that Le lunged at the officer.
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All orders will be processed within 7-10 days of receipt of confirmation of payment.The ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee (QLD) Inc (ADCC) strives to carry stocks of all items offered for sale in the Online Shop. However, during busy periods, it is possible an item may be unavailable for a very short period of time while stocks are being replenished. If an order is placed for more than one item and the ADCC is unable to complete the order, outstanding items will be sent separately as soon as available.
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Every year on the 25th day of April, the ANZAC Day Dawn Service starts at 04:28am sharp at Brisbane's Shrine of Remembrance, ANZAC Square, located between Ann and Adelaide Streets. All are welcome to attend.
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ARTIST STATEMENT: My ideas come from a combination of intuition and assimilation. I pull inspiration from artists such as Twombly, Rauschenberg, Fred Stonehouse, and many of the emerging artists that I come in contact with, though most of my influence can be found in my ordinary surroundings. Silhouettes and colors found in fabric, the decadence of urban settings, and the decay and restoration of architecture and art play major roles in my work. My current work depicts a fictional place, a kind of skewed version of the world I am living in. A world occupied by humor, cynicism, adventure, fear, and silence. The images in my paintings are vague and candid, like that of a memory; each piece being congruent to the next, with an illegible story that connects them. Images of birds, rain, electrical wires, dirt, water, boats, serve as souvenirs from this world in an unfamiliar place.


text: In this "bibbity-bobbity-boo"–less rendition of the classic film's plot, Rylant focuses on larger themes—"Every day Cinderella wished for Love"—rather than characters, crafting a lyrical romance free of sympathetic small animals, songs, much dialogue or even (with the titular exception) names. This interpretation suits the art to a tee. Blair was the original concept designer for the movie (and for many other Disney cartoons), and her color sketches, reproduced here as full-page scenes, have less to do with the small, generic figures in each scene than the flow of line and drapery, the lighting and general look of the costumes, the palace and other sets. The visual connection between these rough pictures and the finished film is tenuous at best, and though unusually perceptive children might be able to make it, this is really more of a spin-off than a tie-in. Its main audience will likely be drawn either by nostalgia, curiosity about the animated filmmaking process, or the enduring appeal of the tale itself. (Fairy tale. 7-11)


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fluxconf is a tiny GTK based configuration tool for the fluxbox window manager.
It allows basic manipulation of the window manager behaviour:
o Slit configuration
o Window placement
o Focus model
o Workspace configuration
WWW: http://devaux.fabien.free.fr/flux/
make generate-plist
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/fluxconf/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install fluxconf
cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/fluxconf/ && make install clean
pkg install fluxconf
PKGNAME: fluxconf
There is no flavor information for this port.
SHA256 (fluxconf-0.9.9.tar.gz) = c22d568650bcb3f5536f72283bb833bf2093177343127354f1d04be798c08f12
SIZE (fluxconf-0.9.9.tar.gz) = 234276
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
===> The following configuration options are available for fluxconf-0.9.9_9:
DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
pkgconfig gnome
Number of commits found: 38
Remove libintl.so.9 compatibility link that was added in r374303 to
prevent massive PORTREVISION bumps. Bump dependent ports that have not
been bumped since.
Convert LICENSE= "GPLxx # or later" to "GPLxx+"
Approved by: portmgr blanket
- Add LICENSE
- Switch to options helpers
Approved by: portmgr blanket
Approved by: portmgr@ (blanket approval)
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
. fix build with clang (CFLAGS+=-Wno-error);
. add LICENSE (GPLv2), bump PORTREVISION;
. trim headers;
. reword COMMENT;
. use one line install instead of an if loop.
PR: ports/181619
Submitted by: bsam (me)
Reviewed by: firstname.lastname@example.com (maintainer timeout, 2 weeks)
Add an explicit dependency on pkgconf
- update png to 1.5.10
Remove more tags from pkg-descr files fo the form:
- Name
or variations thereof. While I'm here also fix some whitespace and other
formatting errors, including moving WWW: to the last line in the file.
- Get Rid MD5 support
- update to 1.4.1
Reviewed by: exp8 run on pointyhat
Supported by: miwi
- update to jpeg-8
- bump all port that indirectly depends on libjpeg and have not yet been bumped
or updated
Requested by: edwin
Bump portrevision due to upgrade of devel/gettext.
The affected ports are the ones with gettext as a run-dependency
according to ports/INDEX-7 (5007 of them) and the ones with USE_GETTEXT
in Makefile (29 of them).
PR: ports/124340
Submitted by: edwin@
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
- Remove USE_XLIB/USE_X_PREFIX/USE_XPM in favor of USE_XORG
- Bump PORTREVISION
Approved by: portmgr (xorg cleanup)
- Welcome X.org 7.2 \o/.
- Set X11BASE to ${LOCALBASE} for recent ${OSVERSION}.
- Bump PORTREVISION for ports intalling files in ${X11BASE}.
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:45:38 -0500
From: Alfredo Perez <firstname.lastname@example.com>
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Cc: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: Adopting a port
Hi I would like to be the maintainer of the following port:
fluxconf 0.9.9_1*
Fix a core dump in the fluxkeys program.
PR: ports/100608
Submitted by: Nikos Ntarmos <email@example.com>
Update to 0.9.9.
PR: ports/93245
Submitted by: Ports Fury
- Add SHA256
Bump PORTREVISION to chase the glib20 shared library update.
- Update to 0.9.8
PR: ports/79758
Submitted by: Ports Fury
Bump PORTREVISION to chase the glib20 shared lib version change.
Bump PORTREVISIONS for all ports that depend on atk or pango to ease in the
big upgrade.
Add PORTDOCS
PR: ports/70604
Submitted by: Roman Bogorodskiy <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Do not include the package name in the comment.
PR: ports/70270
Submitted by: Ports Fury
- Update to 0.9.7
- Reset maintainer: Hendrik no longer has time to look after his ports.
Thanks for maintaining your ports so far and hopefully you'll find time
to return to developing FreeBSD!
PR: ports/69439
Submitted by: Roman Bogorodskiy
Approved by: maintainer
Chase the glib20 update, and bump all affected ports' PORTREVISIONs.
Add size data, approved by maintainers.
Bump PORTREVISION on all ports that depend on gettext to aid with upgrading.
(Part 1)
Unbreak by depending on gtk20
Approved by: maintainer
BROKEN: Does not link
Remove USE_GNOMENG.
Update to 0.9.4
Submitted by: Hendrik Scholz <email@example.com>
Update of fluxconf to 0.9.0. fluxconf can use GTK 1.2 or 2.0.
Deploy USE_GNOMENG infrastructure
Submitted by: Edwin Groothuis <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Add new port fluxconf - a configuration program for the fluxbox
window manager
Submitted by: Hendrik Scholz <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Servers and bandwidth provided byNew York Internet, iXsystems, and RootBSD
8 vulnerabilities affecting 48 ports have been reported in the past 14 days
* - modified, not new
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Two would-be teenage robbers fled after a filling station worker in Sandholes lifted a hammer and told them to "wise up", the High Court heard on Wednesday.
Prosecutors said their target's response was in demands to hand over money at knifepoint just outside Cookstown, Co Tyrone.
Details emerged as 18-year-old David Cunningham was granted bail on a charge of attempting to rob the garage on February 11.
Cunningham, of Riverside Drive in the town, was arrested with a 15-year-old co-accused following the alleged raid.
Prosecution counsel said two intruders with scarves covering their faces tried to hold up the premises in the Tullylagan Road area.
Cunningham is alleged to have pointed a knife with a 12-inch serrated blade at the shop worker and repeatedly demanded: "Empty your till."
The younger suspect stood beside him throughout the incident, the court heard.
"When the demands for money were made the victim responded by saying 'wise up' and moved from behind the till," the prosecutor said.
"The victim located a hammer from a shelf and showed this to both suspects who ran from the shop."
Mr Justice Stephens heard the man followed the pair and watched as they discarded clothing in church grounds before stopping them heading into Cookstown.
It was claimed that he recognised Cunningham's voice from the shop.
Police called to the scene located clothes and a knife in the area.
Granting bail, the judge ordered Cunningham to abide by a curfew and electronic monitoring.
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A series of side-scrolling platform games developed by Sega and Westone. Originally began as a trilogy of thematically-related arcade games (Wonder Boy, Monster Land, and Monster Lair), each with drastically different play mechanics from the last. The second arcade game spun-off the Monster World sub-series on home consoles, which adapted an action RPG approach.
Consists of the following releases:
- Wonder Boy (Arcade, SG-1000, Sega Master System, Game Gear)
- Super Wonder Boy on the Sega Mark III
- Revenge of Drancon on the US Game Gear
- Wonder Boy: Monster Land (Arcade, Master System)
- Wonder Boy in Monster Land on the Master System, Amiga, and Atari ST
- Super Wonder Boy: Monster World on the Sega Mark III
- Bikkuriman World on the PC Engine
- Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair (Arcade, Mega Drive)
- Monster Lair on TurboGrafx-CD
- Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap (Master System, Game Gear)
- Monster World II: Dragon no Wana on the Japanese Game Gear
- Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap on the western Game Gear
- Dragon's Curse on TurboGrafx-16
- Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap (2017 remake for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC)
- Wonder Boy in Monster World (Mega Drive, Master System)
- Wonder Boy V: Monster World III in Japan
- Dynastic Hero on TurboGrafx-CD
- Monster World IV (Mega Drive, Japan only until May 2012)
- Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC)
Young Nastyman does not feature in this series.
Wonder Boy general series tropes:
- Aliens are Bastards: There isn't a single non-malicious alien in the series.
- Alien Invasion: The sneaky infiltration variety occurs in Wonder Boy in Monster World with the reveal that the dragon leading the evil monster invasion was actually a robot crafted by aliens in flying saucers. They try it again in Wonderboy in Monster World by brainwashing the Darkworld prince and making him the head of a new monster army. Finally, the last surviving alien tries to take over using a Hate Plague spread by cute fuzzy pets in Monster World IV
- Clothes Make the Legend: Quite literally with the Legendary equipment, canonically worn by each successive Wonderboy (and Asha) since Monster Land.
- Compilation Re-release: The Monster World: Complete Collection (PlayStation 2, Japan only) not only has all six main games, it also includes all of the cross-platforms ports (at least the ones that came out on Sega consoles) and some of the different regional releases.
- Genre Shift: The three arcade games in the series are different from each other. The first Wonder Boy is a straightforward platformer, Monster Land is an action RPG, and Monster Lair is an Auto Scrolling platformer with Shoot 'em Up segments. All of the console sequels though, stuck to the action RPG format of Monster Land.
- Hijacked by Ganon: Each new threat of evil monsters turns out to be yet another world conquest attempt by the technologically-advanced space aliens from the previous game.
- Legacy Character: Half the time, the titular Wonder Boy is not actually the player character depending on the game, since only Bocke Lee Temjin (AKA Book the Hero, the protagonist of Monster Land and The Dragon's Trap) is said to be the original game's "Wonder Boy" in both The Dragon's Trap and the localized version of the Monster Land manual; Leo from Monster Lair, Shion from Monster World and Jin from Monster Boy and The Cursed Kingdom are each different characters, and Purapril and Asha are girls, thus obviously unfit for the "Wonder Boy" title.
- Likewise, Shiela Purapril from Monster World and Purapril XIII (or "Praprill XIII") from Monster World IV are both separate from the Monster Lair heroine (seemingly Purapril I).
- Medieval European Fantasy: Wonder Boy in Monster Land to Wonder Boy in Monster World all have this setting, while Monster World IV moves to an Arabian Fantasy setting.
- Oddly Named Sequel: The lineage of the series is hard to keep track of thanks in part to the various name changes each installment has gone through between localizations, cross-platform ports and licensed remakes made by other companies.
- Title Confusion: There are two games titled "Wonder Boy III" and both are justified since they're the third Wonder Boy games for their corresponding platforms. Monster Lair was the third arcade game and The Dragon's Trap was the third Master System game. Officially speaking, the latter is known as Monster World II in Japan, where it is recognized as the fourth Wonder Boy game, since the following game (Wonder Boy in Monster World) was called Wonder Boy V: Monster World III over there.
- To Be Continued: Monster Land and Monster Lair both end with ominous foreshadowing, and Monster World explicitly ends on a "To be continued."
- Winged Soul Flies Off at Death: Happens to the many protagonists throughout the series when they die.


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Dear Mr. Van Cooten:
Dear Sir:
Please allow me space in your publication to respond to an article in your September 3rd 2014 issue entitled "Toronto to unveil Reggae Lane".
I must first express appreciation to your media for bringing this issue to our attention. I note that Pride News did not endorse or refute what was presented: Neither did Mr Neil Armstrong make his personal opinion known. I have no problem at all with any of the above.
I was appalled that such an important issue was being discussed and decided upon, without anyone that I know or acquainted with; knowing anything about it. I am not blaming anyone for that. I am just expressing my shock that after 40 plus years of continuous contribution to the development of the Canadian Reggae Industry; such thing could happen without me even hearing about it.
The passageway to be called Reggae Lane in my opinion is a gross disrespect to the industry which we have built in Canada. There is absolutely nothing in this for anyone with dignity to be proud of. Such suggestion by Toronto city councillor Colle should have been handcuffed and thrown right out the door. It is quite obvious to me that whosoever was present and allowed this disrespectful idea to gather enough energy to reach city organizers; did not understand the significance of what was at stake.
Had they been responsible concerning the value of our heritage; they would never allow the councillor to make such a move on them. This is definitely a calculated low political move; at a non-suspecting few, who evidently did not know what was really at stake. This councillor will go down in Toronto's history; as the person responsible for conceiving this disrespectful idea. He will be entrenched solidly into our historic story: For renaming a passageway; Reggae Lane. Note: No one could have approved the RENAMING of the passageway, because it does not have a name…FACT! The report Councillor Colle sent to the community on August 13th was erroneous or fraudulent.
I will not blame councillor Colle 100% for this act, because I cannot prove his intention for suggesting and acting on an idea which was solely his. However; I must question those who were present, and who consented to this total disrespect of our heritage.
Let's just take a look at the alternatives which were and still are present. The Toronto Reggae Music Community has been identified as an area stretching between Marlee Avenue in the east along Eglinton Avenue Westward to Dufferin Street. Why couldn't the good-intentioned councillor see it fit to suggest naming that stretch Reggae Village? Or better yet; why didn't those present see it fit to name the place they all agreed contributed to the Reggae Industry; Reggae Street, or Reggae Avenue?
What is being called Reggae Lane wasn't and is not a lane, but a passageway where business owners used as back entrance to their businesses. The only other occupants were and are; drug dealers and their passing through clients. This is a well known fact to those who frequent the area and also the police who policed the area. There is no dignity in being associated with such a notorious history.
I disagree with Mrs Denise Jones of Jambana One World Festival; that naming this no-where place Reggae Lane is a good start. I think it is a very bad start. All her other points are solid, revealing and most relevant. After we have built such an enormous industry; how can we allow ourselves to be pushed into a no-where back alley; where nothing uplifting ever occurred?
I agree that business owners along the strip might think this is the greatest thing since slice bread: However; very few of them consciously contributed to the building of this industry, or understand the true significance of what we have built. The fact is that The Canadian Reggae Industry has transcended music. We have created a very vibrant industry; which incorporated fashion, beauty-care, cultural cuisine, travel, entertainment, production, manufacturing, distribution, etc.
If councillor Colle has respect for the industry we have built; with little or no help from government; he will refrain from going through with this disrespectful transgression; which seeks to belittle our integrity. He will pay immediate attention to the following recommendation given by Mrs Denise Jones "Reggae music is global and demands the name of a street". I strongly suggest that councillor Colle respects what Mrs Jones said, because she speaks for me and those that contributed to the building and upkeep of the Canadian Reggae Industry. Anything less is definitely not acceptable.
I remain
A concerned contributor
Terry Brown
Toronto, Canada


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Thursday, March 23, 2017
More Protests in North Caucasus Likely Given Collapse in Economy and Political Authority, Expert Says
Paul Goble
Staunton, March 23 – Islam Tekushev, editor of the Prague-based Caucasus Times, says that the potential for conflict in the North Caucasus remains "extremely high" and that "the decline in the authority of regional bosses" together with economic problems makes it likely that protests will spread to places where they were hitherto rare or unknown.
Among the most likely protests, he says, will be "conflicts between regional authorities and traditional social institutions in Ingushetia, the protests of Balkar activists about land disputes in Kabardino-Balkaria, the unhappiness of Circassian activists about the violation of their rights, and anti-Ingush meeting in North Ossetia" (caucasustimes.com/ru/severnyj-kavkaz-v-2017-godu-protesty-na-fone-padenija-avtoriteta-vlasti/).
But he suggests that the most serious conflicts will be between the Balkars and their republic government, clashes arising from the activation of Circassian groups given the decline in the influence of radical Islamic groupings, and the situation in Ingushetia. Indeed, Tekushev says, Ingushetia is likely to be the most prominent hot spot in the region in the coming year.
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