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The books of Poland's most famous writer have been adapted into films that are even more famous... but some have been stinkers. What is it about Joseph Conrad's works that makes their celluloid interpretation such a tricky gamble?
"Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself - that comes too late - a crop of unextinguishable regrets".1
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
"Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself - that comes too late - a crop of unextinguishable regrets".1
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Marlow is an untiring narrator, so it is surprising that he throws in a sudden justification at the end of one episode of Lord Jim: "All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual impressions".2 Indeed. To read Conrad is to agree to this "interpretation", to assume that a few pages of text can be equivalent to a single gesture and a few words (with a certain amount of luck, of course). Why do we enter into this reading contract? Why do we agree to invest our energy and time in wading through the text that is so dense and indolent? Is it a mere cultural obligation to acquaint oneself with a classic?
If one wanted to follow only the last argument, there is no point in reading at all, because the reader would not finish the book at all. Conrad has always worked worse as home assignment or compulsory reading in comparison with other writers. Even Joyce is in a sense 'easier' because one of his aims was to disperse the uniformity of the text through such techniques as, the already proverbial, stream of consciousness. Reading Joyce, we can allow ourselves some fluctuation of attention, because it is already inscribed in the very structure of the content. Conrad, however, is untiring, just like Marlow, and demands the same from his readers.
The award for our efforts, the readerly gain that Conrad presents us with, more than other artists, is doubt elevated to the rank of a revelation. This key term has a crucial meaning in Conrad's universe and connotes not exactly anxiety, but rather a specific mode of self-knowledge; one that assumes a break with certainty, understood as a burden and limitation on perception. The question that I would like to put forward is whether a similar gain awaits the viewer of a film based on Conrad's prose?
"To interpret (...) the instantaneous effect of visual impression". Cinema does not have to interpret anything. Neither, it has any means for that. It is an art of image in which 'visual impressions' are the basic material and means of influence. The subject matter of the book you have in front of you is the clash between the cinema and Conrad, a crossing of the sensitivity of film-makers with that of the writer whose work they decided to adapt for some reasons. There were a lot of adaptations: more than one can remember and see (definitely more than it is worth to see). The chronicler of Conrad's adaptations is, and it has to be{C} admitted, invariably a chronicler of failures and drastic "misunderstandings" (to use a concept presented in the same context by Zygmunt Kaluzynski3). I would like to avoid such a status. Instead of listing titles and keeping score (4:0 for Conrad..., etc.), I prefer a kind of reflection that begins from particular cases and ends with outlining a certain global tendency. This is how I will try to structure my way of reasoning.
Lord Jim (1900) and Heart of Darkness (1899) are probably the most famous works by Conrad. Certainly, they are the most widely read and commented ones. It turns out that adaptations of these two works constitute the poles of failure and success in transferring the novelist's prose to the screen. Lord Jim (1964) by Richard Brooks is widely considered to be an absolute artistic failure, while the film inspired by Heart of Darkness - bringing the plot to contemporary times - Apocalypse Now (1979) by Francis Ford Coppola, has the status of a masterpiece and one of the true milestones in the history of cinema.
These two films - so different in their tonality, style and renown - focus in themselves, as in a lens, the basic problems that a film-maker encounters while struggling with Conrad's literary material. This is why I chose them for the topic of this introduction.
It is worth to start with a brief polemic, for I do not agree with the thesis commonly put forward - among others by Ewa Mazierska4 and Maria Brzostowiecka5 - that it is a mistake to remain only slavishly bound to the events that construe Conrad's plots, because they are reputedly not the most important elements of his works. It is a too narrowing perception of both these events and their film procession. The best evidence for that is precisely Lord Jim.
Richard Brooks was never a too subtle director. In his films, he strove to build clear, sharp and, most of all, effective oppositions, ones that would constitute a possibly efficient and not too easily exhaustible fuel of a turbulent conflict. It is probably most clearly visible in his Blackboard Jungle (1955), parenthetically a very good film. It can also be discerned in Lord Jim. Through its fallaciousness, Brooks' strategy allows to reach not only one of the key Conrad questions, but also one of the greatest dangers in adapting these questions to the screen.
The description of Patna's drowning in the novel is one of the most intense passages in the whole history of literature. Its strength does not rely on the multiplication of effects, but on their limitation. The four hundred Muslim pilgrims are all deeply asleep and none of them realizes the approaching drowning. A "trying silence of the moment before the crash"6 hangs over the ship, while the sea is calm "as a pond"7. Jim, on the other hand, stands immobile with his "feet (...) glued to the planks"8. Then comes the unfortunate jump which will taint the rest of the protagonist's life. On the visual and story level, this fragment is, so to say, smooth and elegant. The swarm and tumult do not take place onboard Patna, but in the protagonist's heart, to which we have no other access than through intuition. No declarations are being shouted out and, even post-factum, he concludes that in this key moment "he thought nothing"9).
If Brooks had stayed close to this description, he would have created an unforgettable film scene. It is crucial, however, that he departed from it. The main problem of his adaptation is not the overdone faithfulness to Conrad, but exactly this storyline wilfulness. Marlow says of Jim (hypothetically, of course, but very accurately as it seems):
(...) he was afraid of the emergency. His confounded imagination had evoked for him all the horrors of panic, the trampling rush, the pitiful screams, boats swamped (...).10
Meanwhile in Brooks, everything that Jim was 'afraid of' and which, nota bene, is absent from the novel and did not happen at all, really takes place. The "horrors of panic" from Jim's imagination are visualized. Jim participates in the chaos and when he finally stands on the ship's side he is throwing glances to the left and to the right and, at last, decides to jump.
It might seem that what we are dealing with here is, at most, a banal (in its motivation) director's device that is based on investing the scene with a spectacular nature, because the literary version had allegedly too little visual dynamics. Probably it is so, but the great emotional, psychological and (sic!) philosophical implications should not be omitted. By doing so, Brooks, even if it was not conscious, turned the central problem of Conrad's novel inside out.
It is crucial that Brooks' protagonist hesitates. Peter O'Toole is looking to the left and to the right, as if he were considering in his soul two equal ways of behaviour and was to decide which one he will choose in this very second. "Either - or": either heroism or cowardice. A simplified reading of Conrad's novel - repeated in hundreds of abstracts and school lessons - read Jim's tragedy in this way. He is supposedly a man who chose the wrong value and then wants to expiate this "unfortunate" choice.
However, everything is different in Conrad's novel. Jim, repeatedly called a "romantic" by Marlow, a boy who dreamed of heroic deeds, suddenly stands, before Patna's catastrophe, in front of a situation that is absurdly closed for any action. Jim neither can save the ship, nor any of its passengers. He cannot assign any meaning to the disaster by staying onboard. It would be an escape, too, because both eventualities would be the proofs of an absolute helplessness and a visible sign of separation from the reality of which the protagonist so far believed to be a master. Jim does not clash with the question of whether his courage will suffice. He does not clash with any question. There is no question in the same sense as there is no choice. The only thing that remains is a tearing down of the illusory cover, according to which people are masters of their fate and their own selves. "I had jumped... (...) It seems (...)"11, Jim concludes. He did not make a choice - some kind of an instinct made it for him. The penance that Conrad's protagonist enforces on himself is designed to patch up the image that was torn on Patna - an image of oneself as an entity that exerts control over itself and is worth of other people's trust.
Brooks' film tells of something completely different. It is a story of a bad decision and its consequences, as well as a cheerful conclusion about the possibility of overcoming its repercussions. Brooks assumes that there is a possibility of expiating one's guilt, while for Conrad the "guilt'" (in itself problematic) is less important than the tragic condition of the protagonist. The final choice of death from the hand of Doramin even strengthens this condition and does not overcome it. Narrator's irony in the end is acute: "Not in the wildest days of his boyish visions could he have seen the alluring shape of such and extraordinary success!"12 This "extraordinary success", however, has one side effect in the form of loss of trust and failed love towards Jewel, a woman who believed in Jim's faithfulness. This theme was also entirely rebuilt by Brooks. He secured the ending from being bitter by putting in the girl's mouth the expression of a strong faith in the communion of the saints. In the film, during Jim's funeral, Jewel has a radiant smile, while in the book "You felt that nothing you could say would reach the seat of the still and benumbing pain".13
Brooks' film makes us well aware of a basic trap in adapting Conrad. It has a twofold nature. Firstly, one has to remember that the writer's works are constructions thought-out to such an extent that the change of a single, allegedly trivial element entails a reconstruction of the whole ideological message. Secondly, and here we enter a new area of consideration, the photographic nature of the film can both ease and complicate the transmission of certain layers of meaning.
The problem lies in the fact that the appearances of persons and objects entail certain connotations. Marlow repeatedly underlines that Jim's figure is unclear to him. He cannot grasp him in sharp contours. The matter of the film image places us, to speak metaphorically, face to face with a particular individual and his appearance, which is most commonly rooted in our film memory, and from the very beginning provokes us to inscribe meanings into it. The choice of an actor is not only a choice of a certain apparition, but it carries a burden of imagery which is included somewhat automatically by the viewer into the meaning. Peter O'Toole as Jim and Marlon Brando as Kurz (more about Apocalypse Now in a moment) introduce into Brooks' and Coppola's film their own acting past, which is not entirely bereft of consequences for the meaning of the discussed films.
Pauline Kael has brilliantly noticed that O'Toole in Brooks' film has an uncommon problem to confront: he has already played Lord Jim once in Lawrence of Arabia [1962 - M.O.] by David Lean, so he can only repeat himself.14 This acting "repeating'" - unerringly perceived by Kael - immediately grows into the layer of film's meaning and carries the picture even further away from Conrad. The cinematic Jim is tired. He does not have the freshness and rosy cheeks, of which Marlow repeatedly speaks and which are, in juxtaposition with the darkness of his eyes, a visible sign of a tremendous conflict that has possessed his heart.
A similar thing happens with Marlon Brando in the legendary Apocalypse Now, though on different grounds. Coppola's film is not a faithful adaptation - it is set during the war in Vietnam - but the changes made to the original, in contrast to those made by Brooks, were carefully thought out. That is why the film achieved the rank of a masterpiece. However, the presence of Brando and several modifications that I would now like to point out caused the film to have a different meaning from that of Heart of Darkness. It has to be remarked at the very beginning that it is not a betrayal of literary material on Coppola's part, but rather, as Alicja Helman calls it - a "creative departure"15, one that is a proof of a lively dialogue with an eminent text and not its vulgar exploitation.
There is no other actor like Brando who would impersonate so perfectly the variety of ways human experience can follow. His consecutive roles were a certain perverse negation of the previous ones. He was both the embodiment of uncontrollable heterosexual lust (A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951) and a homosexual (Reflections in a Golden Eye, 1967); both a revolutionary rebel (Viva Zapata!, 1952) and Napoleon (Desirée, 1954). The two directors who brilliantly used this variety and drew an existential commentary out of it were Bernardo Bertolucci (in Last Tango in Paris, 1972) and precisely Coppola in Apocalypse Now.
Brando as Kurz - exactly this casting decision that followed the logic described above is a departure from Conrad that is most fraught with consequences. Kurz from Heart of Darkness has a "thin arm", a "bony head that nodded with grotesque jerks" and a "pitiful body" that "emerged as from a winding sheet".16 Brando, on the other hand, is stocky, almost obese, which in the original version of the film was discreetly hidden in golden half-tones, but in the new director's version (premiere in 2001) is visible in broad daylight. Marlow tells in the novella: "I saw him open his mouth wide - it gave him a weirdly voracious aspect, as though he wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him".17 On the other hand, Kurz in Coppola's film looks as if he had already eaten this air, land and crows long ago. He is a satiated man and almost level-headed in his composure which he manifests on all occasions. It could be metaphorically stated that this composure stems from the fact that Brando/Kurz had already been everyone; he has lived through all kinds of experiences, each of them extremely intensely and to the very end, since most of his roles ended in his death. Coppola shows us a man who, through his inner richness and range of knowledge (Frazer's Golden Bough lies on his shelf and he recites Eliot's The Hollow Men), surpasses his environment and accurately names the disease that consumes it in the scene where he ironically comments upon the pro-war articles from "The Times".
What a contrast with the novella! It is a feature of Conrad (and constitutes somehow his mystery) that both Coppola in Apocalypse Now and Nicholas Roeg in his television adaptation of Heart of Darkness (1994) did not trust the silence of the original. Conrad's Kurz does not have much to say. He is not like Brando, or the almost seductive John Malkovich from Roeg, a wandering and wisdom-preaching perverse philosopher, but rather, to summon Marlow once more - "an animated image of death"18. Both adaptations (the second one being invariably under the influence of the first) have made out of Heart of Darkness a story of a meeting between a rational man with a sophist who is difficult to battle in discussion, but whose last words ('The horror! The horror!'19) have an overtone alien to Conrad. Under Coppola, Kurz speaks of the "horror" even earlier, convincing that a man has to fraternize with it in order to overcome in himself the fatal temptation of "judgment". "And you must make a friend of horror", he says to captain Willard, who is the film equivalent of Marlow. "The horror!" on Brando's lips in the scene of Kurz's death sounds very calmly and familiarly, without containing the power of a sudden universal revelation.
However, this word was exactly the kind of a revelation in Conrad! Let us notice that once more, as in the case of Brooks' film, we are dealing here with a minor change made by the director that suddenly reverses the meaning contained in the original. Conrad's Kurz is not occupied with philosophical debates, because he is completely disconnected from philosophy, just like from everything else except himself and his power. "There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth"20, says Marlow. In this context the last cry "The horror! The horror!" has to be seen just as Marlow presents it - as a sudden, though short lasting resurrection of conscience. Kurz suddenly recognizes that his "kicking himself loose" was an illusion. He did not transgress the condition of a man sentenced to doubt. This is why Marlow describes his last cry as a victory: "It was an affirmation, a moral victory paid for by innumerable defeats, by abominable terrors, by abominable satisfactions. But it was a victory!"21
These considerations may seem to be too subtle for an introductory chapter to a book on Conrad's adaptations. However, the single thing I wanted to prove and make visible from the very beginning is that the reader has to bear in mind, when reading further texts contained in this publication, the immense bulk of consequences that the manipulation with Conrad's originals entails with itself. They are not always disastrous. In the beginning I wrote about the readerly effort necessary to persistent reading - I hope that at this point it is clearly visible why this effort pays off. Conrad was equally subtle with his style and his moral intuitions - none of these elements can be closed down in the frame of stiff definitions.
When one watches Conrad's adaptations one after another, it becomes clear how often the "misunderstandings" described by Kaluzynski occur. One needs to bear in mind, however, that next to them (seldom, but still) there are - so to say - meetings; moments when the picture is in harmony with Conrad's intuition and helps to throw light on the novel read long ago. These "meetings with Conrad" can come in the least expected moment. Personally, I do not think that anyone managed to approach the writer nearer than Hitchcock in Sabotage (1936), despite the fact that the film almost completely rebuilds the action of the novel (but only some of its questions). Hitchcock knew what to transform, what to leave and what to add, in order to transfer into the language of the cinema the terrifying discovery of Mrs. Verloc, a woman who suddenly perceives the murderous streak in her own daily life and in herself. The scene where the heroin (Sylvia Sidney), still shocked with the news of her brother's death sits in front of a cinema screen and laughs, with her eyes full of tears, on a Disney cartoon, just to stupefy from fright in view of the cruelty present in her (and, through analogy, in the whole world), touches the core of Conrad's issues. Again, just as in Lord Jim, "drapings of illusion burn"22, to use a beautiful expression by Lévinas. The individual once more stands before a shocking and, up to now unsuspected, truth about the world.
It is fascinating to trace these "meeting points" between cinema and Conrad. The picturesque nature of The Duellists (1977) by Ridley Scott and The Shadow Line (1976) by Andrzej Wajda; the inner sensuality of the heroin in Gabrielle (2005) by Patrice Chéreau; an almost tangible sketching of a London night in The Secret Agent (1996) by Christopher Hampton (one that Conrad described as "composed of soot and drops of water"23). All of these films and many others have their disadvantages and merits; they are rarely masterpieces, but a persistent strive to square up to the difficult literary material, which also takes place on the part of the viewer who is acquainted with the originals. That what we find in these "meeting points" is the purest Conrad gold I mentioned in the beginning: the doubt.
Conrad's doubt is placed halfway between despair and indifference. The ultimate sign of the former is madness, while the latter - death. Certainty is related in Conrad with a stubborn attachment to mistake and escape from self-knowledge. Doubt is therefore not a disease, but a cure which, and here lies its paradoxical nature, does not make one resistant to pain, but resistant to the inability to feel it. The Secret Agent may be a most distinct example of it, because in the figure of Verloc Conrad described the bulk of evil that can be born out of a complete moral indolence and immersion in certainty; a closure to all possible questions. "But Mr Verloc was not in the least conscious of having got rusty"24, ironically states the narrator. This moral rust causes Verloc not to feel like having done something evil, even after having led his brother-in-law to death. He is certain of himself and blames only the circumstances. Meanwhile, his wife Winnie is definitely thrown off her former certainty about the husband, world and herself, which results in pain and dilemma. This very pain and dilemma that Winnie feels and which Marlow observes in the protagonists of his stories are real life, or life in truth. Even if it comes, as in Winnie's case, for a few hours, or, like in Kurz's case, for a few seconds before death.

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The establishment of a satellite fair is good news for Australian galleries, not all of which are accepted by Art Basel. Those hosting stands at Art Central this year included M Contemporary, Metro Gallery and Connie Dietzschold.
As someone who spent 18 years living in Asia before moving to Australia and opening her Sydney gallery in 2013, M Contemporary owner Michelle Paterson sees attending such fairs as mandatory. "We need to make our artists internationally known, Australia is too small a market," she says.
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Online Business Model #3 Information Products
One of the most profitable business models online is information products. Even though Kindle Publishing involves selling information products (ebooks) it's a little bit different than launching your own infoproduct.
When we talk about information products we are usually talking about digital products like video, audio or software. This can be anything from video training on how to improve your golf swing to an MP3 song. Information products can also be physical like a CD or DVD but in that case the customer doesn't get instant access to the product. With digital products they are redirected after checkout to the download page or a members area where they can instantly consume the information they just purchased. With physical information products you have to wait for them to be delivered to your home.
Compared to Kindle Publishing where you are more constricted to their Amazon eco-system, their terms, their cut of the profits and so on, you have more freedom launching your own information product. Usually the profit margins are way higher with your own product.
I would say that the top benefit of doing your own information product is that your are building your business for the long-term. Compared to affiliate marketing where you are sending traffic (your customers) to someone else's offer. In that case he is giving you a commission but he is getting the customer (the e-mail) not you. So even though affiliate marketing can be an easy way of making money it's a strategy to build up your business long-term.
When doing your own information product you are getting other affiliates to drive traffic to your offer and building your brand and customer base. You are giving a portion of the profits but in return you are getting an asset and long-term customer and that you can market to again.
The downside to creating your own information product is that it has a quite a big starting barrier meaning that it is not newbie friendly and the startup cost can be quite high. It took me 6 months getting my first information product together and probably about a year before I knew all the ins and outs of doing a product launch as there are many things to consider when launching one.
There are many things you have to get together like web pages, sales copy, graphics, payment processor integration, members area payment integration, autoresponder integration to be able to stay in contact with your customers, support program and promotion and marketing to your product. So the learning curve is very steep for beginners as it involves so many elements that you have to learn to be able to successfully launch an information product.
In my opinion it's better to get started with Kindle publishing, blogging or a YouTube channel. Get comfortable with learning stuff like making a WordPress site, FTP, outsourcing and content creation before going into an information product launch. Then when you do decide to create your own product you have extensive knowledge on the framework needed to accomplish that.
The conclusion is that information product launches are extremely profitable and should be one of the core elements in your online business later on even though I don't recommend starting out with one.
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This Training is held in conjunction with The Celebrant Society and is open to their members, but also to other celebrants.
It is for existing or aspiring Celebrants and who want to venture in to or deepen their awareness and abilities of the consultation experience with dying people or families, and then creation and delivery of death, memorial or funeral ceremonies.
*It is not a shortened version of the Deathwalker Training, nor the whole Ceremony Master Class,
The four Modules we will cover are:
1. Exploring dying, death and loss, for ourselves and those we work with.
2. Consulting with dying people and bereaved families.
3. Ceremony structure, content & co ordination.
4. Working with families for sudden, challenging or more complex deaths.
As Celebrants we are required to be comfortable with dying or bereaved people, in order to glean the details needed for the ceremony, and accompany and guide the bereaved people through their rite of passage in acknowledging the death and celebrating their life, and walking on without that person physically in their life.
When a sudden, unexpected or shocking death occurs, especially to the young, the ceremony needs to be well crafted, guiding and healing. As a Celebrant these ceremonies can be more challenging but also more satisfying.
Zenith Virago has over 25 years of embodied experience in the full spectrum of working with the dying and the bereaved, at the bedside, the kitchen table and in ceremony for intimate ceremony and large public memorials.
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When?Date(s) Wed - 20/11/2019 - 21/11/2019 All Day
Where?Royal Hotel Wyong
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Enjoy cedar in the steamroom!
A cedar bench is softer and more forgiving when sitting on a hot tiled steamroom shelf
Designed to lie on top of an existing tiled steam room bench. Should be coated all sides with 3-5 coats of clear polyurathane/spar varnish/varathane for maximum hygine and longevity. All clear western red cedar material, bottom screwed with no exposed fasteners — So nothing to get burned on.


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Date posted: 5th September 2018
It's almost time for RPS to once again attend the country's leading waste management event.
Hosted at the NEC in Birmingham on September 12th and 13th, the RWM Exhibition attracts more than 20,000 visitors and 500 exhibitors every year.
The exhibition is the perfect place to talk about how we can build a more resource-efficient future. It also gives us the opportunity to chat face to face with current and potential customers about how we can collect used pallets as well as supplying both reconditioned and new ones.
We will be advising on how, through encouraging the government's legislation of reuse over recycling and recovery, we can help those in the packaging waste sector turn something formerly considered waste into an asset.
This is exemplified by our own work. Of the 1.13million pallets we handled through our depot and national network during 2017, RPS managed to send 84.3% for reuse.
Visit us on stand 4H32 in the Recyclers and Reprocesses Hall where our team will be on hand to discuss how we can help take the hassle out of pallet collections and supply. And back by popular demand is our remote-controlled pallet game with some exciting RPS prizes!
To guarantee a meeting use our online form to book a chat with our expert team.
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Government proposals to introduce 16 regional contract areas to deliver probation services are likely to limit almost all voluntary sector organisations to participating only in subcontracting roles, charity umbrella bodies have warned.
The Ministry of Justice proposed in January to contract out probation services for low and medium-risk offenders to private companies and charities. This could mean that responsibility for the rehabilitation of 200,000 offenders is transferred to the voluntary and private sectors.
In response to an MoJ consultation on the proposals, which closed on Friday, the chief executives body Acevo said that, instead of the proposed 16 contract areas, the department should introduce 37, which would broadly match the police and crime commissioner areas and make it easier for charities to take part.
Otherwise, the Acevo response said, voluntary sector organisations would be likely to find themselves limited to considering subcontracting roles.
"This is unsatisfactory," said the Acevo response, "as the programme would benefit enormously from the expertise and capacity for innovation of voluntary and community sector providers in prime contractor roles; subcontractor organisations have in the past faced difficulties in payment-by-results programmes, which might deter several VCS organisations from becoming involved.
"A 16-contract model might produce contracts of such size that even subcontractor roles are beyond the reach of many VCS providers."
The response from the National Council for Voluntary Organisations echoed Acevo's concerns.
"While there are clear attractions to government both in terms of ease of management and reduced administration costs through the use of a smaller number of very large contracts, the experience of the Work Programme and the nature of organisations in the voluntary sector would lead to significant concerns," the NCVO's response said.
"Contracts of this size inevitably limit the types of providers that will be involved; they can lead to a range of issues around supply chain management and can build in several layers of complexity between the commissioner and service users."
Acevo also called for charities to receive 80 per cent of any contract amounts as guaranteed service fees, with any payment-by-results element representing a maximum of only 20 per cent.
This would be "large enough to create a significant financial incentive to achieve high performance, while enabling a diverse range of providers to participate in delivery", Acevo said.
Clinks, a membership body for criminal justice charities, agreed with the 20 per cent maximum figure but said even that would represent "an unfeasible level of risk for many VCS organisations".
"Wherever possible, Clinks would recommend that subcontracted VCS partners carrying out discrete pieces of work should receive 100 per cent of their delivery fee up front and all outcomes-based risk should remain with the prime contracted partner," its response said.
The NCVO recommended that an "up-front contribution", in the form of a loan or grant, could be made to smaller organisations to enable them to take part – for example, to cover start-up costs.
"In the case of very large contracts, prime contractors should be encouraged to use other financial mechanisms to support the involvement of smaller providers – for example, risk sheltering or the use of grant funding to support specific interventions," the NCVO said.
"Prime contractors should be strongly encouraged to use as diverse a range of financial mechanisms as possible in the tendering process and should expect to be held accountable for their decisions, explaining how they have configured funding mechanisms to interventions."


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European Shakuhachi Society Summer School 07
August 27, 2007
The Second European Shakuhachi Society Summer School 2007 welcomed over fifty participants from Europe and Japan. It was held in the town of Munster in the Alsace region in France. The town is famous for the nestling of cranes in the rooftops.
The venue at Kleebach was perfect for workshops. Pieces taught included honkyoku from various schools (including KSK and Tozan), sankyoku and shinkyoku. I presented a workshop on Irish music on shakuhachi.
There was a concert each evening. The first evening concert was an open mic session at Hotel de Ville. Then there were two teachers' concerts and the final participants' concert.
The surrounding hills and closeness to nature made this summer school special.
For me, the highlights were the classes taught and performances by Furuya-sensei and Kakizakai-sensei, two of Yokoyama's leading pupils.
The summer school would not have taken place without the work of Veronique Piron and Jim Franklin. The teachers and performers included Furuya Teruo, Kakizakai Kaoru, Veronique Piron, Jim Franklin, Watanabe Haruko, Sozan Chiaki Kariya (assisted by Jean Francois Lagrost), Onishi Mizuka, Andreas Gutzwiller and Daniel Lifermann.
This event was evidence of the popularity of the shakuhachi in Europe. We look forward to more pan-European shakuhachi events next year. Many thanks to Albert for the photos. Find out more about the European Shakuhachi Society.


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I have been long suffering far too long with a nation of peoples that continually mock Me, ridicule those I have chosen to warn, and continue to wallow in their sins expecting a heavenly reward at the end of their days. Like a pig to slop, those who remain in their unrepentant state and continue in sin will seal their destiny to the lake of fire. You will not receive everlasting life nor enter into My Kingdom. You forget this will be your "eternity" yet you choose to live in your filth for momentary pleasure.
Now is the time and the season that I am giving you what you wanted. A ruler steeped in abominations who cares only about his pleasures, his rulership. He will destroy anyone who will not bow to him and give him the worship he will demand. Your "man of the hour" is about to come forth. You loved him in 2008 so I am giving him to you again. My children, Obama was a liar and deceiver then and a partaker of many abominations-detestable things. Your Prince will be responsible for horrors unspeakable. The Son of Perdition has no conscience, will show no mercy and will slaughter as many as he can until My return.
You will cry and say "Why is God doing this to us?" Many will blame I AM yet wasn't it I that has repeatedly told you to return to Me? I DID NOT REJECT YOU! YOU HAVE REJECTED ME IN THIS NATION!
You love your sexual sins, your mammon, your false gods, your diviners, your "feel good" preachers, your hatred of one another when all come from Me, your debauchery, corruption, bribes, lies. You embrace the enemy's ways by accepting homosexuality, by teaching My little ones that the gender they were born is not whom they are. I MADE MAN IN MY IMAGE! I MAKE NO MISTAKES!!!!
You accept abortion and kill my unborn and as you shed their blood, blood shall be shed in this nation. I, Jehovah, give life and no man has been given the right to take the life of any of My babies. My unborn cry out to Me and I will avenge all of them! You are about to reap what you have sown.
My anger is kindled against you, O'America. You have not walked in My ways, My statutes. You have disregarded My eternal laws. I have warned over and over again. You refuse to repent and you are soon to experience the Fear of God! I, The Prince of Peace, offered you peace, rest, joy and freedom in Me. Instead you desire all the lusts that are not of Me. My offer still stands for those who will repent but do not think for one second that I cannot see right through you. A contrite heart I will not deny and this is true but all liars will burn. You continue to test the Creator of heaven and earth.
You have forgotten I raise Kings up and I take Kings down. I bless nations that follow My commands, My laws. I curse nations that disobey and reject Me. You are a cursed nation, O'America. I will never and have never blessed any nation that walks in what I detest. Your idols are about to fall.
Your Prince, Obama will soon carry out his plans and strip you of all your luxuries, freedoms, your material possessions. You desire to live as you wanted, to do as you please instead of desiring to live and please THE GREAT I AM so I give you your heart's desire now-Barack Obama.
You will fall for his lies once again of peace as if he can save you. He can save no one. My power is far greater than the Father of lies. He is the prophesied one that will finish the demise of this nation.
You have witnessed the love of God throughout this nation and even though My fury is great, I will still pour out My love during the darkest days. My light will shine bright through My end time warriors. There will be miracles, healings, many lost shall be found, mercy on those who never knew Me. You are about to head into the darkest of the darkest times yet witness the love of Your Savior as never before! All who cry out to Me then and repent I will save. Children, I must tell you, this will be your last time to return to Me. At My Return, it will be too late then to repent!
I, Your Father, must be stern in my last warnings to you. I love all My children, each one of you and I truly desire none perish. Choose Me and live. Choose to follow Obama and you will die and not receive eternal life. Remember, My Children, he will return looking different for he must come in under the ultimate plan of deception. DO NOT be fooled. The one you will see is Obama behind the mask. As the Son of Perdition he can masquerade himself. Eyes open children! His beauty will overwhelm but do not be taken in by it. Evil as never seen before is behind that face!
Well, My children, I have told you much. There is not much more I can say. You have been told, you have been warned. My kingdom will have no end. Come drink from the fountain of living waters.
Soon you will see My prophets, watchmen have not lied to you. Life will soon change in an instant. Get ready!
I am eternal. Will you accept My offer and be eternally Mine?
My everlasting love,
Read Daniel 7 through 12.
Read Hosea Chapter 4 and replace Israel and put America there as you read it.
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hello and welcome to planeo. my name is david fuchs. today's subject deals with layingdown a floor covering in a large room. remodeling made simple. how to quickly and easily lay a floorcovering on top of an existing one. as you can see, these are two rooms,that can be separated or used as one. that means,you want one consistent look. that is what this video is aboutand i would like to show, how and what system you should useto accomplish that.
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the noise insulation underlaywhich functions as our glue as well. on top of which we lay downthe vinyl sheets later on. how does it work? how do we manage this all overat a length of 17 meters? we get started and first of allspread the silent stick all over, then we give you a few hintshow to best accomplish that. follow me and i will show you. a few more remarks, beforei start spreading the silent stick. you can use this system on tilesand all hard and solid surfaces.
here old pvc flooring, that shouldstay and has been glued all over. the venue is supposed to be reopenedin next to no time and that makes this system the perfect fit. if you have something like this, likeold floors, just put in on top. please, no carpets.that doesn't work. the floor needs to be cleanand free of dust. check, whether it is even,we also got videos for that. now we can get started. how do you use it?
the coarse side of the silent stickdown, the film side up. at the edges up to contact or leavea small gap and then roll it out and cut it with a utility knifeat the end. when an old rolehas finished and you want to continue with the next one,then please don't work edge to edge. that doesn't work, because you won'tget good adhesion at that spot. therefore i give you a little hint,take the role and turn it, role it out so you hit the wallnicely right up the edge, take your time adjusting it
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we put down the planeo silent stickand it is starting to take shape. all over, edge to edge,you must avoid overlap and you can see that the end piecesare slightly rolling up. for that reasonplease allocate an extra day it takes 24 hours to release tensionfrom the material and roles. tomorrow we can startgluing the sheets on. that is really important. make sure you have sufficientutility knives, since the material contains quartz and the cutterswill become dull after a few cuts.
i am looking forward to tomorrow,see you then. the next day is starting and today'sgoal is to cover the entire room. that's why we arrived as a team,the planeo team. meet mr. pritzkau, mr. fuchs, who youknow from the channel and mr. klippenstein. we want to show you how it worksand how easy it is. to start off with, we want todraw a line for the vinyl sheets and we want this line in the middle,so we can work in both directions. this is different to the click,where we started at the wall.
here we start in the middleand pick our starting points. it is crucial that we project the lineparallel to the wall. we measured it and foundour point, 3.40 meter. we set these points equally onthe left and right side and then draw the whole line with a chalk line. with the two points you don't want toyank a straight edge all the way to draw the line,but instead use a chalk line. take a color that is clearly visible. one is holding on tightand i walk across,
nice and taught,and when both are pulling tight, somebody walks up to the middle,pulls the string up, let's go and we have our line. perfect! now we can take the line away and see,how nicely the line runs throughout the entire room. now we do the following, after wedraw the line it is important to move alongwith a level or a straight edge. it needs to be in excess of 2 meters.
glide along the line with the knife,so that at that point we can open it upand expose the sticky surface. we do this for the entire room andthat's our first step in this process. we made the cut and startthe next step of the work process. that means that we remove the filmlaterally away from the line. but we don't expose it all,just as much, as you are working on. that means remove 1-2 rows. not too much, because this will beour layer for walking on later.
here you can see that the whole rowon this side has been opened to the right we have a cleananchor point, where we start. now we attach the first row of sheets. i'll show it to you in a close-up,come on over. before i starti want to reiterate in which direction we lay downthe floor covering. the underlay was put down in this direction, but the sheetsgo the other direction across the underlay andnot parallel with it.
you should plan this accordinglyin advance. we start at a clean anchor pointand please hold one side of the sheet bottom rightand lift the other one or whatever feels comfortable for you. i chose this side an now i orientatethe sheet along this line. do that now and put it down,just like i am showing you. only when it is perfectyou run your finger across it.. please keep a 5 mm distance here. the room is 17 meters long,please deduct 0,5-1 centimeter
from the wall. when you finished the first, press itdown again and now i already start the next row. a small hint,we start a second row immediately. the reason for that is this. i create a 90-degreeangle,which i achieve easiest, if i start a second row. you can do this very easily. i start in the middle using anoffset grid then press the sheet down.
i need a bit of space,so i too have the line. when that is done,push the board down and we get a 90-degree-angle. that stops me from veering offto the left or right along the way. do it that wayand start with two rows. here you can fit in the next board. as before, edge to edge. as long as you don't push down you can work cleanlywith the silent stick.
in case of a mistake you can lifta board and then forcefully push it down againand smooth it out. it is very clean and easyto work with. that's it. that is the basic procedure andnow we finish those two rows. using an offset patternwith the two rows. we finish the lineand will be right back. we laid down the first two rows.. like i said 18 meters in one piecegoing through two rooms.
the planeo silent stickis great for that. conveniently in two rows. now we can start working fromthis side in this direction as well as in the other direction. now you realize, why we didn't removethe protective film further. just to protect the adhesive surface. now we pull away the film row by rowso that four people can work easily. we're going all out now,finish the roomand will be right back. we worked for about 20 minutesand created a surface of 1.20 meters.
the following is really important,we pushed everything down by hand but there are still littleair bubbles present. your best bet for removing themis a floor roller. if you don't have one at homeand this is a one off project rent one at your local tool vendor. it is not expensive. i'll be around 20 euro. get that. a floor roller is an excellent wayto remove air.
keep in mind to use the roller every half hour or every meterat la minimum. it's because after we removethe film, there is a window of about 30 minutes, before theadhesive surface starts to dry up. i get started and run the roller acouple of times across the surface and also sideways and pleasedo the same at home. this way you create a strong,clean adhesive bond. you can still make adjustmentsif you still notice air or if a gap has appeared,
you can lift the board and replace itwith a new one. after you checked for problemsyou start with the roller. the entire surface has been laid downby the four of us in six hours. you can do that as well, if youhave a project like a restaurant, a boutique or a community centerlike here, then you don't want to shut downyour business for a long time. one day of remodelingand you got a brand new floor down. that's possible with theplaneo silent stick system.
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NEW YORK — The Lebanese government has asked the U.S. to consider immediate military assistance to support the Lebanese Army as they battle al-Qaida linked forces in Northern Lebanon, the State Department said today, but it's not as if the United States has been stingy with military assistance during the Bush Administration.
William Hartung, an arms researcher with the New School in New York, says that even without any new assistance, the U.S. has provided the Lebanese government with $885.5 million in assistance of all kinds. More than $313 million of that was for military aid, known as Foreign Military Financing, with an additional $5.5 million for military training, International Military Education and Training (IMET) funds.
"Almost two-thirds of the $885.5 million came from the fiscal year 2007 supplemental for Iraq and Afghanistan, $585.5 million in all. This includes $300 million in military aid, the vast bulk of the $313.3 million received for the entire period of 2001 to 2008," Hartung noted. "So aside from a steady flow of Economic Support Funds (averaging about $35 million a year throughout the period), Lebanon had been virtually ignored on the aid front until after the Israeli conflict in 2006."
The Lebanese have spent the money on small arms, ammunition, Humvees, five-ton trucks, vehicle repair parts, small-arm repair parts, individual soldier equipment, protective vests, helmets and boots, as well as repair on equipment, helicopters and land vehicles, according to the State Department.
"It's all fighting equipment," said Hartung. "It's not for display."
The most recent request comes as the Lebanese army is bombing and battling Fatah al-Islam, described as linked to al-Qaida, although U.S. intelligence is not certain just how strong those links are. Sean McCormack, the State Department spokesman, would not detail what was in the request, but said it was similar to what the U.S. government has provided in the past.
"They have a request in, and we're going to take a look at it," he said.
Hartung says providing so much military assistance to a volatile, even unstable country, could be counterproductive.
"You're going to tear apart Lebanon," said Hartung, director of arms sales monitoring at the New School's World Policy Institute. "You never know where this will wind up.
"Some will fall into the hands of Hezbollah and Hamas. Some will fall into the hands of al-Qaida. There is enough weaponry in these requests to keep a civil war going for years."
Hartung says the U.S. has been pumping arms into Lebanon for the past two years, as Israel has battled Hezbollah, catching the Lebanese army in the middle.
The U.S. also helps to train the Lebanese Armed Forces. The aid has traditionally gone toward efforts to control the Southern Lebanese border where Hezbollah operates. The increase in aid in the supplemental is meant to help Lebanon recover after the war there last summer.
"The Lebanese Armed Forces are engaged in a tough fight against a brutal group of violent extremists that have embedded themselves in this Palestinian refugee camp," McCormack said.
Not everyone agrees that Fatah al-Islam is as big a threat as the Lebanese suggest. Senior U.S. intelligence officials say that while the Lebanese group Fatah al-Islam does have "some links to al-Qaida" they are links to al-Qaida in Iraq, not the al-Qaida central, as the intelligence community refers to the group run by Osama bin-Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.
"We are talking about al-Qaida once removed," said one official of the group fighting Lebanese security forces in Tripoli.
The official also said it is "hard to tell what the links are" other than its leader, Shaker al-Absi, did work with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and is believed to have played "some role" in the killing of U.S. diplomat Thomas Foley in Amman three years ago.
"In spite of what they have told the New York Times about their desire to attack the west and the U.S., their aspirations exceed their operational capabilities," said the same official. "Al-Absi is a bad actor, but he is not part of the al-Qaida core and he likes sounding off, but the guiding principle of Fatah al-Islam is not global jihad but Israel."
NBC Producer Elizabeth Leist contributed to this report.
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Episode 1531 - Coffee with Kenobi
September 21, 2016
Logan and Will are joined by Dan Zehr from the podcast Coffee with Kenobi. We chat the Star Wars offerings at both parks and speculate at the future of Star Wars at Disney. You can hear Logan and Will this week on Coffee with Kenobi at coffeewithkenobi.com.
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Christopher C. Brown is vice president, stop-loss product in the employee benefits group at Sun Life Financial U.S., Wellesley Hills, Mass. He is a member of the government relations committee of the Self-Insurance Institute of America, Simpsonville, S.C.